The laboratory associated with this physics course consists of a recitation session (one hour) and a laboratory session (one hour and fifty minutes)...
You will be able to view the lab report template (worksheet) for the experiment you are to do before attending the lab as part of the lab preparation...
If a student misses a lab (or believes he/she will have to miss a lab due to a university-excused absence), that student should try to find another section during that same week to do the lab experiment...
Although there is generally no difficulty in deciding how many significant figures (s. f.) a measurement should contain, problems can arise when calculations are made using these numbers...
0-40 volt DC power supply, 6 volt AC transformer, Battery (D size), 12 volt light bulb and socket, 150 and 700 ohm resistors, Bare Nichrome wire (silvery-looking) and insulated copper wire on block, Digital multimeter
Physicists use the concept of a field to explain the interaction of particles or bodies through space, i.e., the "action-at-a-distance" force between two bodies that are not in physical contact...
In this lab you will investigate the relationship between voltage, charge and plate separation for a simple parallel plate capacitor under different conditions.
We will start our study of capacitors by showing how the voltage across the plates of a capacitor varies with plate separation, with fixed charge on the plates...
This experiment will lead you through the steps on using an oscilloscope to measure the output of a DC power supply and the output of a function generator and then to utilize the oscilloscope to measure the time dependent properties of a simple RC circuit...
In this lab, we will build the simple series RC circuit discussed above, and using the oscilloscope, measure the voltages across the capacitor and the resistor for the charging and discharging of this system...
In this lab you will build an RL and an LC circuit and use the response of these circuits to a time varying voltage that we calculated above to measure the value of the inductance (LR circuit) and the frequency of oscillation of the LC circuit...
The objective of this experiment is for you to produce time varying magnetic fields in a region and to observe the induced EMF that is produced in such a coil...
Function generator, Oscilloscope, Hall probe box, Large circular coil (wound on black PVC), Small circular coil (wound on white nylon), Solenoid with steel core, Horseshoe magnet (with string on it), Cylindrical magnet, Aluminum block (1 cm thick), Plastic block (1 cm thick), Piece of copper wire, Wooden jig
In this experiment, the optical characteristics of mirrors, lenses, and prisms will be studied based on using the following physics definitions and relationships plus simple geometry...