Physics Lab Manual
by Loyd, DavidEdition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-10-04
Publisher(s): Brooks Cole
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Summary
In each lab, author David Loyd emphasizes conceptual understanding and includes a thorough discussion of physical theory to help you better see the connection between the lab and the lecture.
Table of Contents
| Measurement of Length | |
| Measurement of Density | |
| Force Table and Vector Addition of Forces | |
| Uniformly Accelerated Motion on the Air Track | |
| Uniformly Accelerated Motion on the Air Table | |
| Kinematics in Two Dimensions on the Air Table | |
| Coefficient of Friction | |
| Newton's Second Law on the Air Table | |
| Newton's Second Law on the Atwood Machine | |
| Torques and Rotational Equilibrium of a Rigid Body | |
| Conservation of Energy on the Air Table | |
| Conservation of Spring and Gravitational Potential Energy | |
| The Ballistic Pendulum and Projectile Motion | |
| Conservation of Momentum on the Air Track | |
| Conservation of Momentum on the Air Table | |
| Centripetal Acceleration of an Object in Circular Motion | |
| Moment of Inertia and Rotational Motion | |
| Archimedes' Principle | |
| The Pendulum-Approximate Simple Harmonic Motion | |
| Simple Harmonic Motion-Mass on a Spring | |
| Standing Waves on a String | |
| Speed of Sound-Resonance Tube | |
| Specific Heat of Metals | |
| Linear Thermal Expansion | |
| The Ideal Gas Law | |
| Equipotentials and Electric Fields | |
| Capacitance Measurement with a Ballistic Galvanometer | |
| Measurement of Electrical Resistance and Ohm's Law | |
| Wheatstone Bridge | |
| Bridge Measurement of Capacitance | |
| Voltmeters and Ammeters | |
| Potentiometer and Voltmeter Measurements of the emf of a Dry Cell | |
| The RC Time Constant | |
| Kirchhoff's Laws | |
| Magnetic Induction of a Current Carrying Long Straight Wire | |
| Alternating Current LR Circuits | |
| Alternating Current RC and LCR Circuits | |
| Oscilloscope Measurements | |
| Joule Heating of a Resistor | |
| Reflection and Refraction using a Ray Box | |
| Focal Length of Lenses | |
| Diffraction Grating Measurement of the Wavelength of Light | |
| Hydrogen Spectrum and the Rydberg Constant | |
| Simulated Radioactive Decay using Dice "Nuclei" | |
| Geiger Counter Measurement of the Half-Life of Ba-137 | |
| Nuclear Counting Statistics | |
| Absorption of Beta and Gamma Rays | |
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