PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY
Facilities
Physics facilities at Dordt include a large laboratory for introductory courses, a smaller lab for upper-level courses and student projects, and an optics room.
Astronomy facilities include an observatory with a roll-off roof on the south end of campus, and a 12-foot dome observatory on the roof of the science building.
You will also have access to computer workstations in the physics lab and engineering labs, as well as experimental equipment for holography and laser optics, high-temperature superconductors, nuclear radiation, acoustics, electro-magnetism, fluid mechanics, and astrophotography.
Chemistry equipment includes an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, a Fourier-transform infrared spectrophotometer, a fluorescence spectrometer, a gas chromatograph, an ultra-violet/visible spectrophotometer, a high pressure liquid chromatograph, and a gas chromatograph. In addition you'll have access to a wide range of equipment in our mechanical and electrical engineering laboratories.
