Physics - 250/310: Laboratory

John. A. Shaw

 If you have a question about a lab or the date of a lab, you can email me at jshaw@lsmsa.edu .



Laboratory/Lecture Schedule Fall Semester
Week Beginning
Lab Write-Up Instructions,Lab Syllabus

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

Michael Faraday: "Let your imagination go, guiding it by judgment and principle, but holding it in and directing it by experiment. Nature is your best friend and critic in experimental science if you only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on your mind. Nothing is so good as an experiment which, while it sets an error right, gives you as a reward for your humility an absolute advance in knowledge."

Laboratory/Lecture Schedule Spring Semester
Week Beginning
Lab Write-Up Instructions, Lab Syllabus

Lab #1 Standing waves on a string

Lab #2 Sound waves in a resonant column (optional)

Lab #3 Electric Fields: equipotential lines and electric field of a dipole

Lab #4 Electric Fields: electric field of a parallel plate capacitor

Lab #5 Resistors: series and parallel combinations separately

Lab#6 Resistors: series and parallel combination together

Lab #7 Magnetic fields of magnets

Lab#8 Magnetic fields due to currents

-midterm-

Lab#9 Oscilloscope - measuring test signals

Lab#10 Oscilloscope -LR circuits and time constants

Lab#11 RC circuits - data capture with computer

Lab #12 Ray Tracing: Lenses
lab#13 Ray tracing: Mirrors

Lab #14 Optical Bench: thin lens equation

Lab #15 Two-Slit diffraction pattern: measuring the wavelength of light

-end of semester-



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