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Autocollimator - GearTeam PDF
Autocollimator - GearTeam PDF
This experiment aims to give the student the basic knowledge of what is an
Autocollimator, the concept that it works with and to understand how data are
analyzed to get the results. All of that will be done by measuring the straightness
of a beam.
Get the beam we want to use ready and cleaned then calibrate the autocollimator
to be in line with the reflector, turn on the lamp of the autocollimator and check
the alignment between the autocollimator and reflector at both extremes of the
operational distance. Now start taking readings at different distances and tabulate
the readings.
We have the data now acquired in a table and it is ready for analysis using
graphical method and least square method to get the cumulative rise and fall of
the testing beam in micrometer.
Objectives
Experimental setup:
3 2
4
Autocollimator components:
Sample of calculation:
=(0+100+200+300+400+500+600+700+800)/9= 400 mm
Xm=X-=800-400=400 mm
Ym=Y-=373.667-130.337=243 mm
XmYm=97332
Xm^2=160000
m= ^2
=268443/600000=0.4474
C=-m=-48.63
The autocollimator is an optical device used to measure small angles with very
high sensitivity . The autocollimator projects a beam of collimated light. An
external reflector reflects all or part of the beam back into the instrument
where the beam is focused and detected by a photodetector. The
autocollimator measures the deviation between the emitted beam and the
reflected beam. Because the autocollimator uses light to measure angles, it
never comes into contact with the test surface.
- Are the existence of burrs or dust on the surface plate effect your
results.
For optical autocollimator it does not effect as the light will not touch the
surface but if the results will be effected if dust was on the reflector.
-Autocollimator works on the principle of light reflection, it concerned with the
idea that flat surfaces reflect light at 0 degree angle.
-The main scale is divided in into 20 division each reads 0.5 min.
-The least square method is more accurate because it depends on the average
value of the position and rise and fall.