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5m10.10 Hall Probe

PURPOSE: To show the hall efect

DESCRIPTION: A hall probe is used to probe a magnet or a solenoid.

EQUIPMENT: The hall probe must be borrwed from the 2nd floor labs.  The output of the hall probe meter is connected to the overhead display meter.

SETUP NOTES: This demo could be much improved if it were made with P-type and n-type germanium samples on projection plates according to the description in http://www.physics.umd.edu/deptinfo/facilities/lecdem/k1-51.htm

and according to the refernce article: P. Eisenstein, The quantum hall effect, AJP 61, 179-183 (1993)..

 

Updated by Jun Qi in 3/13/2000