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Facilities
Palenske Hall houses
the Physics,
Geology and Mathematics
departments. It is one of the three
buildings in Albion College's
Science Center, completed in 1969,
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Observatories
The
historic observatory
houses the 8" Alvan Clark refractor
and was designated a Michigan Historical Site in 1985.
A 16' Ash Dome will house the Stellman telescope, a 14" Celestron
reflector.
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The Department also has 3
10" Meade LX200GPS telescopes and an
11" Celestron Nextstar GPS that can
be mounted on permanent piers
located on the roof of Palenske.
These telescopes are used in the
Astronomy classes and for student
research projects.
Laboratory
Facilities
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Over the past
few years the department has
upgraded the laboratories with
networking and computer-assisted
apparatus. |
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"portable" photodetachment
apparatus that was transported to
Albion from the U. of Toledo. The
apparatus has a low energy (50 kV)
accelerator, with a hot filament ion
source and charge-exchange chamber
for making negative ions, which are
then energy analyzed. Several
students have worked with Prof.
David Seely on this apparatus. |
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| Part of the Dow
Interdisciplinary Analytical
Instrumentation Laboratory is a
Low-level Gamma-ray Spectrometer.
The spectrometer consists of a high
resolution, high efficiency
germanium detector, environmental
radiation shield and counting
system. The spectrometer is
used in studying environmental
radiation and in ongoing studies of
calibration of gamma-ray detectors. |
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Last modified on
08/14/2007. |
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