Physics Laboratory Manual (3rd Ed.)

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
General Laboratory Information......Page 16
LABORATORY 1 Measurement of Length......Page 28
LABORATORY 2 Measurement of Density......Page 38
LABORATORY 3 Force Table and Vector Addition of Forces......Page 48
LABORATORY 4 Uniformly Accelerated Motion......Page 58
LABORATORY 4A Uniformly Accelerated Motion Using a Photogate......Page 62
LABORATORY 5 Uniformly Accelerated Motion on the Air Table......Page 68
LABORATORY 6 Kinematics in Two Dimensions on the Air Table......Page 78
LABORATORY 7 Coefficient of Friction......Page 88
LABORATORY 7A Coefficient of Friction Using a Force Sensor and a Motion Sensor......Page 94
LABORATORY 8 Newton\'s Second Law on the Air Table......Page 100
LABORATORY 9 Newton\'s Second Law on the Atwood Machine......Page 110
LABORATORY 10 Torques and Rotational Equilibrium of a Rigid Body......Page 120
LABORATORY 11 Conservation of Energy on the Air Table......Page 132
LABORATORY 12 Conservation of Spring and Gravitational Potential Energy......Page 142
LABORATORY 12A Energy Variations of a Mass on a Spring Using a Motion Sensor......Page 146
LABORATORY 13 The Ballistic Pendulum and Projectile Motion......Page 152
LABORATORY 14 Conservation of Momentum on the Air Track......Page 164
LABORATORY 14A Conservation of Momentum Using Motion Sensors......Page 168
LABORATORY 15 Conservation of Momentum on the Air Table......Page 174
LABORATORY 16 Centripetal Acceleration of an Object in Circular Motion......Page 184
LABORATORY 17 Moment of Inertia and Rotational Motion......Page 194
LABORATORY 18 Archimedes\' Principle......Page 204
LABORATORY 19 The Pendulum—Approximate Simple Harmonic Motion......Page 212
LABORATORY 20 Simple Harmonic Motion—Mass on a Spring......Page 222
LABORATORY 20A Simple Harmonic Motion—Mass on a Spring Using a Motion Sensor......Page 226
LABORATORY 21 Standing Waves on a String......Page 232
LABORATORY 22 Speed of Sound—Resonance Tube......Page 240
LABORATORY 23 Specific Heat of Metals......Page 250
LABORATORY 24 Linear Thermal Expansion......Page 258
LABORATORY 25 The Ideal Gas Law......Page 266
LABORATORY 26 Equipotentials and Electric Fields......Page 274
LABORATORY 27 Capacitance Measurement with a Ballistic Galvanometer......Page 284
LABORATORY 28 Measurement of Electrical Resistance and Ohm\'s Law......Page 294
LABORATORY 29 Wheatstone Bridge......Page 304
LABORATORY 30 Bridge Measurement of Capacitance......Page 314
LABORATORY 31 Voltmeters and Ammeters......Page 322
LABORATORY 32 Potentiometer and Voltmeter Measurements of the emf of a Dry Cell......Page 334
LABORATORY 33 The RC Time Constant......Page 344
LABORATORY 33A Time Constant with Positive Square Wave and Voltage Sensors......Page 348
LABORATORY 34 Kirchhoff\'s Rules......Page 354
LABORATORY 35 Magnetic Induction of a Current Carrying Long Straight Wire......Page 364
LABORATORY 35A Magnetic Induction of a Solenoid......Page 368
LABORATORY 36 Alternating Current LR Circuits......Page 374
LABORATORY 36A Direct Current LR Circuits......Page 380
LABORATORY 37 Alternating Current RC and LCR Circuits......Page 384
LABORATORY 38 Oscilloscope Measurements......Page 394
LABORATORY 39 Joule Heating of a Resistor......Page 406
LABORATORY 40 Reflection and Refraction with the Ray Box......Page 416
LABORATORY 41 Focal Length of Lenses......Page 428
LABORATORY 42 Diffraction Grating Measurement of the Wavelength of Light......Page 436
LABORATORY 42A Single-Slit Diffraction and Double-Slit Interference of Light......Page 440
LABORATORY 43 Bohr Theory of Hydrogen—The Rydberg Constant......Page 446
LABORATORY 43A Light Intensity versus Distance with a Light Sensor......Page 450
LABORATORY 44 Simulated Radioactive Decay Using Dice \"Nuclei\"......Page 456
LABORATORY 45 Geiger Counter Measurement of the Half-Life of 137Ba......Page 466
LABORATORY 46 Nuclear Counting Statistics......Page 478
LABORATORY 47 Absorption of Beta and Gamma Rays......Page 488
Appendix I......Page 498
Appendix II......Page 500
Appendix III......Page 502