Could you enumerate some of the important Experiments / Phenomena PGRE student should be familiar with.....
I knew a few of them...
Michelson Morley - To invalidate the Ether Drag Hypothesis
Stern Gerlach -- Spin Related
Photo Electric Effect
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Important Experiments / Phenomena/ Effects
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Re: Important Experiments / Phenomena/ Effects
einstein de haas effectpamel wrote:Could you enumerate some of the important Experiments / Phenomena PGRE student should be familiar with.....
I knew a few of them...
Michelson Morley - To invalidate the Ether Drag Hypothesis
Stern Gerlach -- Spin Related
Photo Electric Effect
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compton scattering
zeeman effect
doppler effect both for mechanical and em waves
hall effect
rutherford's exp
davisson germer
thompson's scattering
debye's explanation of sp heat (its somewhat a theory though)
spin orbit coupling
phenomena of alpha and beta decay
young's double slit
bragg's scattering
frank hertz exp
moseley's x-ray exp
internal conversion
laue's scattering
pair production/annihilation
superfluidity of liq He
superconductivity
semiconductivity
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Re: Important Experiments / Phenomena/ Effects
I would suggest any decent (think sophomore-level) book on modern physics, e.g. Taylor & Zafiratos or Halliday & Resnick, with an eye for these sorts of things. Most of the ones you will need for the test will be covered in some detail.