PS216  -  Physics I Laboratory
Instructor:  Andri Gretarsson
Announcements
Lab 12 (Archimedes' Principle is the last lab. After you hand in your lab book for this lab on Monday, Nov. 23, you will have completed the class.  There is no final exam. You can retrieve your lab notebooks from my office after Thanksgiving break. Your grades will be available online during the second week of December. 

Please remember to fill out the online evaluation for the class before the end of the first week of December!

See you next semester.  --AMG

General

Course Structure Syllabus

Syllabus Addendum
Information and ExamplesLecture on Uncertainties, Uncertainties Lecture Supplement, Comprehensive Document on Experimental Error

Sample Lab Notebook 1, Sample Lab Notebook 2, These lab notebooks are from the Junior-level optics lab (PS380).

Lab Manual

Cover, Preface, Guidelines, etcLab Manual Frontmatter
Experiment 1Error in Measurements
Experiment 2
Equilibrium of Forces
Experiment 3
Centripetal Force
Experiment 4
Gravitational Acceleration
Experiment 5
Motion under Constant Acceleration
Experiment  6
Friction
Experiment  7
Conservation of Energy and Momentum
Experiment  8
Linear Elasticity
Experiment  9
Mass on a Spring -- A Simple Harmonic Oscillator
Experiment  10
Air Resistance
Experiment  11
Efficiency of an Electric Motor
Experiment  12
Archimedes' Principle

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