Mechanical Spectrometer

No fancy electronics; just prisms and a vernier scale.
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Hardware ID:  00000

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Heavy duty spectrometer designed to be rugged, at the expense of precision and specs. Useful for undergrad demos; the students will probably break before this apparatus does.

Specs:

Manufacturer: Canadian Arsenals Ltd.

Model Type: JS

Theoretical Resolution: 0.1nm

Practical Resolution: 0.6nm (I could just barely resolve the Sodium Doublet - Sean)

Internal Workings: Prism + Vernier Scale

Notes:

Each spectrometer has a central wavelength written on them, for fitting a calibration to the Vernier Scale. See:

http://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/IYearLab/Intros/Spectra/Spectra.html

For Calibration Procedure and fit (by David Harrison).