Hands-On Laboratories – Hands on Research in Complex Systems

3. HANDS-ON LABORATORIES

This is a link to the top level Google Drive. Subdirectory and other links below.

3.2 Fluid Dynamics

3.2.1 – 3.2.3 Activities: Instabilities in a Nonequilibrium Fluid System

Sample movie of wavy vortex flow, PDF descriptions of the instrumentation and experiments along with GUI analysis code.

3.3. Soft and Granular Matter

3.3.1. Activity: Dynamic Differential Microscopy (DDM) of colloidal particle motion

Sample movie and PDF’s describing experiment.

3.3.2. Activity: Granular gases

Sample movie from the 2018 Hands-On School along with codes and other information.

3.3.3. Activity: Patterns in vibrated granular layers

Sample code and video of a granular pattern.

3.4. Physics of Living Systems

3.4.1. Activity: Antimicrobial efficacy and diffusion

(link to open access article in PLOS BIOLOGY describing the experiment)

3.4.2. Activity: Bacterial motility

Sample video and PDF with detailed description of the experiment.

3.5. Modeling and Analysis

Drive

3.5.1. Activity: Programming tutorial

Google doc with instructions and hyperlinks to related scripts, movies, etc. NOTE: Download the entire directory to use the hyperlinks in the HTML document.

3.5.2. Activity: Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulator

Code base for creating an MD simulator.

3.5.3. Activity: Modeling applications

PowerPoint slideshow and link to open source particle tracking software.