This laboratory course will cover topics in elementary mechanics. Goal: to witness some of the laws and equations of physics "in action." In this course, we will not be "verifying" these laws; they've been tested for hundreds of years and seem pretty sound. Instead, we will concentrate on making connections between what you observe in the lab and the theoretical concepts and equations discussed in lecture and in the textbook.
| Week of September 3 | No Labs |
| Week of September 10 |
Significant Figures AND Introduction to the Computer
Interface and DataStudio |
| Week of September 17 | Acceleration in freefall (tape timer) |
| Week of September 24 | Vector Addition and Force Tables |
| Week of October 1 | Projectile Motion, Atwood's Machine |
| Week of October 8 | First Quiz |
| Week of October 15 | No labs |
| Week of October 22 | No labs |
| Week of October 29 |
Collisions in 1-D |
| Week of November 5 | Moment of Inertia |
| Week of November 12 | Conservation of Angular Momentum |
| Week of November 19 |
No Labs (Thanksgiving) |
| Week of November 26 | Standing Waves on a String |
| Week of December 3 | Second Quiz |