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 Examples	Lecture 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, etc	Lab Manual Frontmatter
Experiment 1	Error 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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