Chapter 10
Experimental Methods (201)

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1. Transition Probability Rates and Oscillator Strengths (3/18/98)

Absolute absorption measurements (3/20/98)

Hook measurements (3/23/98)

Emission measurements (3/23/98)

Branching fraction determinations (3/23/98)

2. Lifetime measurements (3/23/98)

Hanle effect (3/23/98)

Historic background of time resolved methods (3/25/98)

Selective excitation: beam-laser methods (3/25/98, 3/27/98)

Fast ion beam spectroscopy (3/27/98, 3/30/98)

3. Historical Foundations of Exponential Decay (4/1/98)

Ancient formulations (4/1/98)

Perceptive linearization of stimuli (4/1/98)

Biological growth (4/1/98)

The 17th century: Formulations (4/3/98)

The 18th century: Applications (4/3/98)

The 19th century: Departures from a pure exponential (4/3/98)

The 20th century: Radioactive decay (4/3/98)

Exponential growth (4/6/98)

Do particles decay or only pristinely disintegrate?

4. Cascading (4/6/98)

Diagrammatic mnemonic (4/6/98)

Driven excitation (4/8/98)

Phase shift measurements (4/8/98)

Strength of cascading (4/10/98)

ANDC analysis (4/13/98)

Pulsed electron beam excitation (4/15/98)

Thermal escape (4/15/98)

Coulomb explosion (4/17/98)

5. Multiply Excited States (4/17/98)

Li-like quartets and differential metastability

Displaced levels and the Al sequence (4/20/98)

Radiative decay of a negative ion (4/20/98)