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Cold Lab Report - Final
Cold Lab Report - Final
Cold Lab Report - Final
Fig. 1 The code for our program in LabView that we used to collect data.
Data
Here we have a graph of the data put out by our three trials as well as the Curie
Temperature for each trial (Fig. 2).
Alex Winkley
16
14
Resistance [Ohms]
12
10
8
Trial 1
Trial 2
6
Trial 3
4
2
0
100
120
140
160
180
200
Temperature [K]
Fig. 2 The graph of our three trials which shows the Curie Temperature for each.
Analysis/Error
In the experiment guide, a Curie Temperature, where the resistance goes to zero, is given
but the Curie Temperature that we found was not consistent with the one given by the
experiment guide. Upon averaging the three temperatures together and finding the correlating
standard deviation, we determined our Curie Temperature to be 116.75 2.098 .
Here we have each individual trial with the correlating standard deviation for each.
Alex Winkley
Trial 1
18
16
Resistance [Ohms]
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
100
120
140
160
180
200
Temperature [K]
Trial 2
16
14
Resistance [Ohms]
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
100
110
120
130
140
150
160
170
Temperature [K]
180
190
200
Alex Winkley
Trial 3
14
Resistance [Ohms]
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
100
120
140
160
180
200
Temperature [K]
In order to find the error associated with all three trials as a whole, we found the average
resistance for each temperature value and calculated the standard deviation for those values. We
used those standard deviations to calculate the error bars for this graph.
Average Trial
16
Resistance [Ohms]
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
100
120
140
160
Temperature [K]
180
200
Alex Winkley
We found the standard deviation for the average trial in our experiment at its max to be
1.737 and at its minimum to be 0.556. There are a couple possible sources for this error.
The most obvious source is external noise from the system we were working in. When we took
the superconductor out of the liquid nitrogen, we let it reheat on the lab table about 1 foot from a
computer. This could have caused the super conductor to be heated by the computer which
would tamper with our results. Another source of error is the room we were working in, in that
there were a lot of people in there, and the resulting combination of everyones body heat could
have affected our results as well. Looking back on this experiment and into the future when
helping other students with this experiment, I would try to limit these factors and make it so that
they try to eliminate as much external noise as possible.
Alex Winkley
Reference List
Leon-Rossano, L. (1997). An inexpensive and easy experiment to measure the electrical
resistance of high-Tc superconductors as a function of temperature. American Journal of
Physics, 65(10). Retrieved April 30, 2015.