General Physics Laboratory II: Electricity & Magnetism & Optics: Physics 152L and 272L is a laboratory manual that introduces students to the experimental principles of electricity, magnetism, and optics through hands-on investigations. The manual begins with laboratory safety, course procedures, and fundamental concepts such as experimental error and circuit analysis before covering electric fields, electric potential, oscilloscopes, DC circuits, capacitors, magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, and electrical oscillations. It concludes with experiments in geometrical and physical optics, including refraction, helping students develop practical laboratory techniques, data analysis skills, and understanding of core physics concepts.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Safety Rules and Procedures
Electromagnetism Lab Schedule
Chapter 1: Course Description
Appendix 1-A: The PC's
Appendix 1-B: Experimental Errors
Chapter 2: Electric Fields and Potentials
Appendix 2-A: Introduction to Circuits
Chapter 3: Use of the Oscilloscope
Chapter 4: DC Circuits
Chapter 5: Electric Field Mapping
Chapter 6: Electric Deflection
Chapter 7: Capacitors
Chapter 8: The Magnetic Field
Chapter 9: Magnetic Deflection of Electrons
Chapter 10: Induction
Chapter 11: Electrical Oscillations
Natural Oscillations
Driven Oscillations
Appendix 11-A: Driven Oscillations - fitting a curve using the Graphical Analysis (GA) Program
Chapter 12: Geometrical Optics
Chapter 13: Physical Optics: Refraction
Frederick A
Harris
Frederick A. Harris is a Professor of Physics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, specializing in high-energy physics and particle physics experiments. His research has been closely tied to the BESIII experiment at the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider (BEPCII), where he has contributed to the discovery and study of exotic particles such as the Zc(3900) and Zc(4020).