General Physics 1: PHY2048L Lab Manual
Edition: 6
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 114
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This General Physics I laboratory manual introduces the fundamental principles of mechanics, thermodynamics, and waves through experimental investigation and data analysis. Students develop skills in measurement, experimental design, uncertainty analysis, and scientific reporting while exploring topics such as motion, forces, rotational dynamics, equilibrium, buoyancy, heat, the ideal gas law, and wave behavior.
Introduction
Experimental error and data analysis
Experiment 1 Mass, volume and density
Experiment 2 Acceleration due to gravity
Experiment 3 Projectile motion
Experiment 4 Force table 35
Experiment 5 Atwood’s machine
Experiment 6 Collision
Experiment 7 Static equilibrium of a rigid body
Experiment 8.1 Rigid-body rotation about a moving axis
Experiment 8.2 Moments of inertia
Experiment 9 Buoyant force
Experiment 10 Specific heat capacities of metals
Experiment 11 Ideal gas law
Experiment 12 Vibrating string
Computerized experiments
Dehuai Chen, Ph.D., is a Physics Instructor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. He teaches undergraduate physics courses and laboratories, emphasizing the fundamental principles of mechanics, electricity and magnetism, optics, and experimental physics.
Dr. Shen Li Qiu is Professor of Physics at Florida Atlantic University, where he has served since 1990. He earned a B.A. in Physics from Fudan University in Shanghai, an M.S. in Physics from the City University of New York, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the City University of New York. His research focuses on the electronic structure of metals and alloys, as well as the magnetic structure of transition-metal compounds and thin-film multilayer systems.