PH 221 Grantham University Week 7 Wave Functions Lab 7 Report PH221 – Week 7 Lab Wave Functions Welcome to this week’s laboratory component. This week is

PH 221 Grantham University Week 7 Wave Functions Lab 7 Report PH221 – Week 7 Lab

Wave Functions

Welcome to this week’s laboratory component. This week is different than previous weeks in that you will not be using a KET simulation for this activity. Instead, you will be creating and analyzing graphs of a wave function using Microsoft Excel.

Download the instructions for the laboratory activity you will complete this week. You may wish to print it out and use it to collect and organize your results.

Wave Functions Lab

Use the answers to the laboratory questions to help you write your lab report. Your report will focus on graphs of the wave function vs. position. You should discuss what these graphs mean in terms of probability of finding a particle at specific position at a point in time.

The lab report will have the following six sections. Include section headings in bold at the beginning of each section.

1.Introduction – Explain the purpose of this laboratory and what results you expect to see in this experiment.

2.Background – Discuss the concepts that form the foundation for this lab. You should address what you learned from the weekly lectures and readings that are related to the lab.

3.Methodology – Describe the apparatus that was used in the experiment(s) and how it was used in performing the experiments. Also explain what tools were available within the laboratory that allowed you to collect or analyze the data.

4.Data – Enter the data that you collected in the lab. You can use screen shots from the Data Table within the Pivot Interactives labs. Data should be clearly labeled with physical quantities and units.

5.Analysis – Analyze your results. If your Data Table included Calculated Columns, then the equation you used in those calculations should be included and described here. Any graphs created with the data go in this section, as well as your interpretations of their meaning. Were your results consistent with your original expectations?

6.Conclusion – Provide a concise summary of the results of your experiment(s) – what you did, what you found and what it means. Speculate on possible sources of experimental error and/or uncertainty within the experiment. Describe an additional experiment that could be run with this equipment to expand on what you’ve learned OR explain how you could use this equipment to answer another real-world problem.