Experiments

The list below may not reflect the actual sequence of experiments for your lab section. Please view the Lab Schedule to determine which lab you will be doing this week.

Mechanics

• Data Analysis and Measurement Uncertainty
• One-Dimensional Motion
• Projectile Motion
• Forces and Newton's Laws
• Frictional Forces
• Mechanical Energy of a Bouncing Ball
• Mechanical Energy of a Mass-Spring System
• Two-Dimensional Collisions
• Rolling Motion
• Simple Harmonic Motion
• Driven Oscillators

Electricity & Magnetism

• Electric Charge and Static Electricity
• Light Intensity
• Electric Force
• Electric Field and Electric Potential
• Circuits and Ohm's Law
• RC Circuits
• Electron Motion in a Magnetic Field
• Magnetic Fields
• Induced emf
• Electromagnetic Radiation
• Filters
• Speed of Light

Optics

• Lenses
• Optics of the Eye

Radioactivity

• Radioactive Decay

Modern Physics

• Size of a Molecule
• Diffraction
• Balmer Series
• Blackbody Radiation
• Frank-Hertz Experiment
• LEDs and Planck's Constant
• Millikan Oil Drop Experiment
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Photoelectric Effect
• Radioactive Decay
• Structure of Universe
• Bragg Reflection
• Quantum Dots