First-Semester Labs
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Experiment |
Lab Writeup |
Prelab Assignment |
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Graphical Analysis - MBL |
(REVIVED) Pre-lab |
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Position, Velocity & Acceleration - MBL |
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Projectile Motion |
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Constant Acceleration - MBL |
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Forces Between Carts - MBL |
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Friction |
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Energy Conservation - MBL |
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Magnetic Forces - MBL |
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Impulse and Work - MBL |
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Energy and Work - MBL |
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Collisions - MBL |
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Angular Momentum |
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Torque and Moments of Inertia |
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Simple Harmonic Motion – MBL |
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Fluids |
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Specific Heat |
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Mechanical Equivalent of Heat |
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Conversion of Mechanical Energy to Heat |
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Heat Lab with Systems |
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Simple Harmonic
Motion – PASCO |
Second-Semester Labs
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Experiment |
Lab Writeup |
Prelab
Assignment |
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Electric Charge |
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Electric Charge - Abridged (for PY212) |
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Coulomb's Law |
HTML5 version: Pre-lab |
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Electric Fields and Potentials |
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Capacitors - MBL |
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Ohm's Law - MBL |
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e/m Ratio of the Electron |
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Faraday's Law - MBL |
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Electromagnetic Induction - MBL |
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RLC Circuits - MBL |
New HTML5 pre-lab |
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Sound - MBL |
New PhET-based pre-lab |
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Geometrical Optics |
New HTML5 pre-lab |
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Interference and Diffraction |
New HTML5 pre-lab |
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Thanks to the NSF who
provided funding for the development of the microcomputer-based labs (MBLs)
and the pre-lab assignments through grant DUE-9981096.
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