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Acceptable Title Pending: Probing The Limits Of Precision Measurement And Academic Assessment, Bobby King
Acceptable Title Pending: Probing The Limits Of Precision Measurement And Academic Assessment, Bobby King
Senior Projects Spring 2023
This is a project in two parts. The first is an attempt to impart onto the reader the necessary mental models required to understand a scientific experiment related to the improvement of gravitational wave detectors. Part one is illustrated in collaboration with Simone River Wilding, Sohpie Foley, Roma Taitwood, and Cam Goldberg.
Part two is a technical description of efforts made to reduce speckle in measurements of scattered light. Gravitational wave detection requires extremely high precision measurement, and one source of noise in the detectors is scattering off of defects and surface roughness in optical coatings. Research into the development …