A student laboratory in environmental physics

Abstract

In the framework of teaching environmental physics at the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) six experiments in environmental physics have been developed. The experiments are incorporated in the student laboratories for physics majors. Therefore, first an overview is given of the set-up and methodology of the student laboratories in general. Next, the experiments are described. They are available on the web for anybody to copy including a typical 'example experiment' to test the equipment and experimental procedure.As an example an experiment on laser Doppler anemometry is described.

Environmental physics as a teaching concept

“…In order to make the experiments available to any department that wants to start environmental physics courses, our website gives a detailed description. More information can be found in the subsequent paper [8].…”