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Internship Programme



The Physlab has started a students internship programme whereas 15 interns will spend time inside the lab over the summers and help in the development of new experiments, testing and improvement of existing experiments and helping prepare the lab manuals. In the summers of 2008, we hosted interns from the Lahore American School.



Publications

"Simple circuit for investigating noise in the undergraduate laboratory", Umer Hassan, Sohaib Shamim and Muhammas Sabieh Anwar, submitted to European Journal of Physics (2009).

"Investigating viscous damping using a webcam", Sohaib Shamim, Wasif Zia and Muhammas Sabieh Anwar, submitted to American Journal of Physics (2009).









The Physlab borrows an indigenously developed setup for determining the Curie point of a ferromagnetic alloy to the freshmen physics lab at the GIKI. Here is Dr. Jameel's response:

Thanks for sending the manual and handing us one compete set of experiment of determination of Curie point. FES would soon be officially acknowledging this generous assistance from SSE. The experiment have been set on display in our PH102 lab. I totally agree that we both can share our expertise in freshmen physics lab. The end beneficiary would be students of both schools. Perhaps an official visit of lab personnel on reciprocal basis in future would be more advantageous. At GIKI we are laying more emphasis on improving the exisitng lab facilities for freshmen.








Visits to and from the Physlab


Umer Hassan Siddiqui travels to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to participate in the Summer School: Cellular and Molecular Mechanics with a focus on Enabling Technologies (June 8 to June 19, 2009).



A delegation from the Institute of Space Technology (IST) comprising the Vice Chancellor, Dean of Materials Science and other faculty members visits the Physlab and expresses overwhelming interest in reproducing these experiments in the undergraduate curriculum at the IST. IST is the educational face of the country's space agency, SUPARCO.


Abdul Mannan successfully completes the practical course titled Computer Aided Drawing and Drafting offered by the National Institute of Design and Analysis, Lahore (April 2009).



Dr Jameel Nabi from GIKI visited the Physics Lab on 27 February 2009. This visit can further enhance the co-operation between the two institutes.



24 A-level students from the Lahore Grammar School (LGS) visit the lab on 26 February 2009 and keenly perform our freshmen experiments.



A group of teachers and Ph.D. students visited the lab on 26 November 2008. The visitors came from various departments of the Punjab University, COMSATS Lahore and UET, Lahore. They saw the lab in session and observed the performance of students. They returned highly inspired!


Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan, Rector GIKI and Member Planning Commission, Pakistan visits the Physlab and offers valuable suggestions on improving the experiments and offers ideas for new experiments in the forthcoming years.

Sohaib Shamim attends seminar on National Instruments products held at Islamabad on 5 May, 2008.








List of Experiments

Lab I (first year)
Simple harmonic motion is observed through webcam

Rotational dynamics, moment of inertia, torque and rotational friction

Heat transfer and Newton’s law of cooling

Latent heat of vaporization of liquid nitrogen and low temperature heat capacities

Laws of thermodynamics and thermodynamic cycles using glass syringes

Magnetic phase transitions of a ferromagnetic alloy

Optical activity of chiral solutions

Sampling, data acquisition and frequency filtering

Resonance and quality factor in electric circuits

Radioactivity statistics

Electromagnetic induction and working of read-write operations in magnetic media





Lab II (third year, first semester)

Faraday's effect and Berry's phase

Noise and autocorrelation

Applications of a lock-in amplifier

Biomedical signal acquisition and processing

Selected experiments on quantum optics

Cyclone physics, weather fronts and air circulation

Cosmic rays and lifetimes of muons, time dilation

Thermal standing waves in a toroid and measurement of thermal diffusivity

Making a high-temperature superconductor and measuring its properties

Fabricating a nitrogen laser

more to come

Lab III (third year, second semester)
more to come