• Physics 191 ESR Experiment

    Physics 191 ESR Experiment

    Students measure the electron spin resonance in ruby!

  • Image shows a Bluefruit device with illuminated LEDs, batteries, assorted cables, a copper pipe, a container of jumper cables, resistive wire, and a small breadboard.

    Physics 12a Remote Kit

    Physics 12b uses an Adafruit Bluefruit device as a data acquisition system.

  • Marimba 15c student project

    Physics 15c poster party

    Visitors are trying a three key marimba made by two 15c students for their final project.

  • Two men stand behind an apparatus that shows a ball on a shallow rotating cone. Shelves of optics equipment are behind them.
  • Making Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream

    LN2 Ice Cream

    Professor Silvera is making liquid nitrogen ice cream for Physics 191 students. Delicious!

  • Four spirograph traces are shown in shades of blue and green.

    Learning Python in PS 12a

    Students in PS12a are introduced to Python as a tool for data visualization and analysis, solving problems, writing simulation

  • 15b_electrophoresis

    Physics 15b Doing Electrophoresis

    Food colors have charges! Students in 15b see how the applied electric field moves food color molecules in the conducting gel.

Welcome to Harvard Physics's instructional lab!

Our mission is to support student learning in the processes of scientific investigation. The process of doing science involves creating and using models to predict and explain measurements of physical quantities. As a group of teaching professionals working in the laboratory, our emphasis is to help students learn to make and interpret measurements, compare data to model predictions, and use the results of their analysis to revise models.

Gravity "defying" cone

Our famous preceptors Dr. Greg Kestin and Dr. Keith Zengel discuss a ball on a rotating cone: