| Laboratory/Lecture Schedule Fall Semester |
Week Beginning |
| Lab Write-Up Instructions,Lab Syllabus
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| Lab#1: Measurement |
August 26 |
| Lab#2: Graphing and Excel |
September 2 |
| Lab#3: Vectors: Force Table |
September 9 |
| -------------------Test#1 |
September 13 |
| Lab#4: Inclined Plane, measurement of
g |
September 16 |
| Lab#5: Airtrack, measurement of g |
September 23 |
| Lab#6: Projectile Motion | September 30 |
| test review/study day |
October 7 |
| ------------------Test#2 Midterm |
October 11 |
| Lab#7: ( Atwood Machine?) |
October 13 |
| Lab#8: Elastic Collisions |
October 21 |
| Lab#9: Inelastic Collisions | October 28 |
| Lab#10: Intro Trebuchet |
November 4 |
| ------------------Test#3 |
November 8 |
| Lab#11: Trebuchet building |
November 11 |
| Lab#12: Trebuchet building |
November 18 |
| Lab#13: trebuchet demonstration |
December 2 |
| ------------------Test#4 |
December 6 |
| Last week of class/Exams |
December 9 |
| Laboratory/Lecture Schedule Spring Semester |
Week Beginning |
| Lab Write-Up Instructions, Lab Syllabus
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| Lab #1 Standing waves
on a string
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| Lab #2 Sound waves in a resonant column (optional) |
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| Lab #3 Electric Fields: equipotential lines and
electric field of a dipole |
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| Lab #4 Electric Fields: electric field of a parallel
plate capacitor |
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| Lab #5
Resistors: series and parallel combinations separately
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| Lab#6 Resistors: series and parallel combination
together |
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| Lab #7 Magnetic fields of magnets |
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| Lab#8 Magnetic fields due
to currents
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| -midterm- |
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| Lab#9 Oscilloscope
- measuring test signals
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| Lab#10 Oscilloscope -LR circuits and time constants |
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| Lab#11 RC circuits -
data capture with computer
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| Lab #12 Ray Tracing: Lenses | |
| lab#13 Ray tracing: Mirrors |
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| Lab #14 Optical Bench:
thin lens equation
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| Lab #15 Two-Slit diffraction
pattern: measuring the wavelength of light
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| -end of semester- |