Physics 4A Lab Exercises
PREFACE
First Week:
Enrollment, Lab
Introduction, and:
1. THE VENIER SCALE
This lab has serveral pictures which have been lost. To see those
pictures, you can download this pdf file of the 4A
Lab Manual of several years ago. Although some labs have changed,
the Vernier lab, and the Behr Free lab below, have not.
Old Lab Manual in pdf format
Second third week:
Discuss uncertainties and:
2. DENSITY AND MEASUREMENT
Fourth and fifth Week:
3.
THE BEHR FREE FALL EXPERIMENT
There are a couple of missing pictures here, but you can get them from
the Old Lab Manual as a pdf file found above.
Sixth Week:
INTRODUCTION
TO THE AIR TRACK
4. NEWTON'S SECOND LAW AND THE
AIR TRACK
Seventh
Week:
5. THE AIR TRACK AS AN INCLINED
PLANE WITH A GRAPH ON THE COMPUTER
Eigth Week:
6.
TOTALLY INELASTIC COLLISIONS
Ninth Week:
7. ENERGY CONSERVATION AND
ROTATIONAL INERTIA
Tenth Week:
8. THE SIMPLE PENDULUM
Eleventh Week:
LAB FINAL
Extra Labs:
SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION AND A
VERTICAL SPRING (not
ready
yet)
SIMPLE
HARMONIC MOTION (NO AIR TRACK) (not ready yet)