2C Lab Exercises


First Week:

Take role and an introduction to the lab.

Second Week:

1. Density, the Buoyant Force, and Archimdede's Principle.


Third Week:

2. Geometrical Optics  (Finding the focal length of a thin lens)


Fourth Week:

3. Wave Optics I  (Single Slit Diffraction)


Fifth Week:

4. Wave Optics II  (Double Slit Interference)


Sixth Week:

5. Microwave Optics I  (Single Slit Diffraction revisited)


Seventh Week:

6. Microwave Optics II  (Bragg Diffraction)


Eight Week:

7. Atomic Spectra (two weeks).


Ninth Week:

Atomic Spectra continued


Tenth Week:

8. The E/M experiment (finding the ratio of an electron's charge to its mass).


Eleventh Week:

LAB FINAL