| Student Manual |  This experiment is designed to study the Brownian motion of colloidal particles suspended in water, air or any other solvent. |
| Sample Results | Gray scale image of microspheres executing Brownian motionBinary image showing microspheres as bright particlesBandpass filtered image with background noise removedDisplacement square versus time graph of Brownian particlesTracking Brownian motion sample report |
| Hardware Manual | Motic BA210 Series Biological microscope Instruction ManualMotic Image Plus Version 2.0 MLMotic Live Imaging Module |
| Experiment Code | 2.11 |
| Version | 2017-1 |
Further Readings and References
- The time, size, viscosity, and temperature dependence of the Brownian motion of polystyrene microspheresAmerican Journal of Physics, Dongdong Jia, Jonathan Hamilton, Lenu M. Zaman and Anura Goonewardene, 75(2), 111, (2007).
- Concepts in Thermal PhysicsOxford university press, Stephen J. Blundell and Katherine M. Blundell, 207, (2008).
- Einstein, Perrin and the reality of atoms: 1905 revisitedAmerican Journal of Physics, Ronald Newburgh, Joseph Peidle and Wolfgang Rueckner, 74(6), 478, (2006).
Pictorial Procedure
