INTRODUCTION

This web page was started as an online journal for my Physics 350 - Fall 1999 - class.  This is an independent study course in undergraduate physics at Knox College.  My mentor for this project is Professor Charles Schulz, Chair Department of Physics at Knox. (Fernando Erazo)

The topic of this class is Mossbauer Spectroscopy, and the aim of this web site is to provide a concise reference of the theory and experimental features of this scientific method.  Mossbauer Spectroscopy is in itself a vast and complex field, for the understanding of many of its features and inner workings, it requires a very strong mathematical and physical background.  This  web site is not intended to be an in-depth explanation of the Mossbauer effect or of its experimental applications.  The material contained here comprises what I have learned about Mossbauer Spectroscopy in the past semester.

The main objective of this independent study is to further explore the Mossbauer spectroscopy field and specifically to concentrate on the following:  the study of the temperature dependence of the quadrupole splitting for iron.  Quadrupole splitting is one of the main three hyperfine nuclear interactions measurable by means of Mossbauer spectroscopy.