General Physics Laboratory

M 2:30 pm - 5:25 pm (section 51)
W 2:30 pm - 5:25 pm (section 53)
Science Building 106

Lab Links:

  • Lab Syllabus (pdf)
  • Moodle (grade postings etc.)
  • Course Page
  • Grading Rubric (pdf)
  • PASCO DataStudio (free data analysis software)
  • DataStudio Vista fix
  • Tracker (free video analysis software)

    Lab Manual:

    Week 1
  • Lab Manual Introduction (pdf)
  • Lab 0 - Equipment and data taking (pdf)
  • Lab 0 Worksheet (pdf)

    Week 2
  • Lab 1 - Volume and Uncertainty (pdf)
  • Prelab activity link

    Week 3
  • Lab 2 - Mission Possible (pdf)
  • Prelab activity link

    Week 4
  • Lab 3 - Graph and Fit Data with MS Excel (pdf)

    Week 5
  • Lab 4 - Acceleration due to Gravity via Freefall (pdf)
  • Prelab activity link (not working in Firefox)

    Week 6
  • Lab 5 - Peer Review of Lab 4 (pdf)

    Week 7
  • Lab 6 - Friction, Experiment and Theory (pdf)
  • Prelab activity link (not working in Firefox)

    Week 8
  • Lab 7 - Pendulums and Springs (pdf)
  • NOTE: This lab references sectin A.6 of the Lab Manual Introduction (pdf)

    Week 9
  • Presentation Grading Rubric (pdf)

    Week 10
  • Lab 8 - Young's Modulus (pdf)

    Week 11
  • Lab 9 - Energy Experiments (pdf)

    Week 12
  • Lab 10 - The Ballistic Pendulum (pdf)
  • Prelab activity link (not working in Firefox)
    Last revised November 8, 2007.