Optical Trap:WTP Drag

Experiment Description
A two hour, interactive, optical trap demo that contains portions of calibration and characterization, culminating in the calculation of the drag coefficient for a sphere. A short E.coli demo is also run. This was designed by B. Hughey and D. Appleyard for the Women in Technology Program at MIT.

Lab Manual
Prelab given to students Prelab key Lab Manual

Software
Labview and Matlab files mentioned in lab manual.