Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Lab 16. Planck's Constant rom an LED

Introduction
     In this experiment, the known value of Planck's constant was calculated from experimental measurement using different colors of LEDs.

Procedure 
Circuit was built similar to above scheme. 


Different LED light bulbs were used: yellow and blue
Green and Red LED lights

Data/Discussion


Summary
     Since the white LED light appeared as multiple color bands on its spectrum, the white LED have a mixture of colors. The wavelength and voltage is inversely proportional to each other. The graph that plotted voltage vs. 1/wavelength gave the relationship of y = 2187.7x -1.341. The slope represents for hc/E.The percent error of this experiment is about 1.75%. This suggested that the experimental procedure is consistent, which resulted in accurate planck's constant, h. 

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