Physics 100A Summer, 2007

 

List of Laboratory Activities

Week # 1

June 4/5

 

June 5/7

Experiment # 1

Experiment # 2

Lab Manual, Rules, Safety forms, Physical Measurement and Statistic.

The Exquisite Problem of Describing Motion. Part 1

Week # 2

June 11/12

 

June 13/14

Experiment # 3

Experiment # 4

Vector Addition: Graphs, Vector components, and Structure of

Space.

Free Fall: Galileo’s Ingenious Argument from an Indirect Measurement.

Week # 3

June 18/19

June 20/21

Experiment # 5

Experiment # 6

Momentum and Newton’s Lows: How the Physics World Works

Constancy in the Physical World: The Great Conservation Laws

Week # 4

June 25/26

June 27/28

Experiment # 7

Experiment # 8

Free Fall: Video Analysis of Motion in 1 and 2 Dimensions.

(Video Capture and Videopoint Analysis)

Falling in Air: Air Friction, Fluid Matter, and Terminal Velocity.

(Video Capture and Videopoint Analysis)

Week # 5

July 2/3

July 4/5

Experiment #12

 

Independens Day

Temperature, Heat, and Internal Energy: Heat Capacities Tuned to Molecular Structures.

No Class

Week # 6
July 9/10

 

 

 

 

July 11/12

Experiment #9

 

 

 

Experiment #10

Oscillating Systems and Periodic motion.

#9A. The Spring-Mass System, a Standard model of SHM*.

#9B. The Pendulum, an Approximate Model of SHM*.

#9C. Public Reports,the Problem of Agreeing with Someone. SHM=Simple Harmonic motion.

Waves and Resonances: A Way to Transfer and Store Energy.

Final Lab due to office by 3 PM on Friday July 13th