Peter Siegel
Professor Emeritus
Physics Department
California State
Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA 91768, USA
Fax (909) 869-5090
e-mail: pbsiegel@cpp.edu
My Home Page in Germany
Classroom Materials and Activities:
Lower Division Classes
- linefit program,
curvefit program
- Physics Lecture Notes and Example Problems for first and second year physics:
Lecture Notes for 131, 132, 133, and 234
- Homework Problems and Solutions for:
Phy131,
Phy132,
Phy133,
Phy234.
-
Online Integer Problems:
Phy131 (Mechanics),
Phy132
(Fluids, Gravity, Oscillations, Waves, Thermodynamics),
Phy133 (Electricity and Magnetism)
- New Laser Gate
- Phy131L: Laboratory Experiments
- Phy235L Modern Physics laboratory manual:
Phy235L Lab Manual
Upper Division Classes
- Phy432: Radiation Physics Laboratory Manual:
Laboratory Manual
- Phy409 (Computational Physics):
Lecture Notes,
Simple Commands,
Example Programs
- Phy404 (High Energy Physics from Spring 2011):
Syllabus,
lecture notes.
Notes on Quantum Formalism,
- Phy404 (High Energy Physics from Spring 2012):
Syllabus,
lecture notes,
Homework Problems.
- Phy404 (Computational Nuclear-Particle Physics from Spring 2013):
Syllabus,
lecture notes,
Assignments.
- Phy499 (Computational Nuclear-Particle Physics from Winter 2016):
Syllabus,
lecture notes and sample programs,
homework problems.
- Bio431: Radiation Biology
lecture notes and lab experiments
- The
Cal Poly Virtual Radiation Laboratory
Elementary School Courses
Classroom Projects
- Java Script Programs
for classroom, laboratory, and personal use.
Included are "Linefit", "RPN Calculator", Gaussian curvefitting programs,
"Mortgage Calculator", atomic and nuclear energy level calculator,
Home Run Calculator, Catenary Arch Builder and more.
These programs run in browsers with html5.
- The Cal Poly Virtual Radiation Laboratory
contains a number of experiments you can run using a Geiger Counter, NaI gamma detector,
Ge high resolution gamma detector, and a liquid scintillation detector.
- Click on Heart Rate Analysis
Laboratory for programs to analyze RR interval data.
- Click on Sound and Music Lab for some javascript
programs for music and physics students and teachers to use.
- Click on interfacing for instructions
on programming PIC chips and reading serial and parallel ports in Linux.
- Click on mmt.html for a summary of
our "Mädchen Machen Technik" workshop for high school students.
- Click on New Laser Gate for a description
of our new laser gate. You will also find instructions on building the gate, and
computer programs for the hardware(in assembly) and software(in C and javascript)
for the gate.
- Click on PIC programming projects
for the circuit diagrams, assembly codes and parts
lists for some fun PIC programming projects, including "kitchen timer".
- Click on laser gate
for a description of our laser gate. You
will also find instructions building the gate, and an image file for running the software to
read the laser gate output. The source codes are also included.
- Click on NodeJs programs
for various programs in NodeJs that
read data from a usb port. Included are programs to be used with our new laser gate.
- Click on Bluetooth programs
for instructions on
using bluetooth communication with PIC microcontrollers.
- Click on Raspberry Pi programs
for programs using the Raspberry Pi.
- Click on booting for easy directions
for making boot diskette's, CD's, and USB flash drives in DOS and Linux.
- Student written Programs which run
on PC-type computers. Both the source and executable codes can be
downloaded and run. Included are Pascal source codes for the
Atwood Machine, "Gaussian Peak Fitting" and other
data analysis programs.
- Gamma spectrum data taken with the
physics departments 3 inch NaI detector. Data include calibration sources
and soil samples to be used by students.
- Germanium Detector gamma spectrum
data taken with the physics departments Ge detector from Canberra.
- Heartbeat interval data for the Cal Poly
Arabian Horses and humans.
- CD for controlled breathing:
breathing cd 12 bpm
Personal Info
Web links
Particle Data Group
Nuclear Energy Level Diagrams (TUNL)
Los Alamos Isotope
Data Bank
Table of
isotopes (Brookhaven Nat Lab)
LBL Nuclear Data
Table of Gamma Energies (Korea)
NIST Atomic Data
Mass Attenuation Coefficients Table for elements
Mass Attenuation Coefficients Table for other materials
PC Interface Information
Physics Dept
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