Physics Excellent Facilities
Our students have access to excellent resources on campus to develop into experimentalists with a full range of tools at their disposal. In addition to the resources available to physics students, the chemistry department also has a robust range of instrumentation available to students.
Common Study AreaTo help facilitate academic dialogue and ground-breaking ideas, faculty offices are joined to a common study area and lounge. | |
Research Lab spaceWhen students join a research group, they are given keys to access workspace to build and test their research projects. | |
Computer LabOur local computing cluster is shared with the Computer Science Department to facilitate networking and the work-shopping of innovative ideas. The computing cluster has 49 blades with Intel i7 CPUs at 3.6 GHz, and 8 GB of memory per core. | |
Modern Physics & Advanced Lab | |
Machine Shop | |
Gamma Ray Spectrometer | |
Scanning Electron microscopeIn 2023, Westmont acquired a Hitatchi SU-1500 scanning electron microscope, with up to a 30 kV accelerating voltage and an energy dispersive x-ray spectrometer that allows for material composition studies. | |
Maker Space Engineering Building | |
observatoryWestmont has an excellent observatory on campus, only 100 yards from the physics building. |