Physics

Facilities & Resources

The Physics Department is housed in the Merritt C. Penticoff Building. All laboratories are equipped with data acquisition and analysis workstations. The advanced optics laboratory is particularly well equipped to facilitate undergraduate research. The observatory sits on top of the Howard Building. Grants to enhance physics education at JU have been received in recent years from the National Science Foundation, the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the duPont Foundation, and the State of Florida.

Major instrumentation includes two 10-watt argon lasers; a tuneable dye laser; a research grade optical table with laser port; a radiometer/photometer; electro-optic modulation systems; a Meade LX-200 reflecting telescope with a CCD camera; a student X-ray system; a digital spectrum analyzer; a PC-based multichannel analyzer & NaI detector; and 14 PC-based data acquisition and analysis workstations.