PHYS 2120/2121: Calculus-based Physics II, 2022-2023

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Introduction 
Grading Policies 
Plagiarism as It Relates to Lab 
Making-Up a Missed Lab 
          Policy 
          Where to get the Form 
          Completing the Lab Make-up Permission Form 
          Attending the Make-up Lab 
How to Prepare for Lab 
When You Come into Lab 
During Lab 
At the End of Lab 
Preparation of Laboratory Reports 
Acknowledgements 
Getting Started Each Lab 
Logging into the Lab Computers 
Finding the Experiment files 
          Opening the Excel spreadsheet file 
          Enabling the Macros 
          Entering Group Member Names 
          Printing Coversheet 
          TROUBLESHOOTING: Coversheet does not print 
EXPERIMENTS
Batteries, Bulbs, and Current 
Electric Field Mapping 
Current in DC Circuits 
Voltage in DC Circuits 
Resistor Combinations and Kirchhoff’s Laws 
RC Circuits 
Magnetic Fields 
Oscilloscopes and Simple AC Circuits 
Forced Oscillations and Resonance 
Diffraction and Interference of Light 

APPENDICES
Appendix I: How to use LoggerPro with the LabPro interface and sensors
Appendix II: How to estimate the uncertainties in a measured quantity
Appendix III: How to use significant figures

Introduction 
Grading Policies 
Plagiarism as It Relates to Lab 
Making-Up a Missed Lab 
          Policy 
          Where to get the Form 
          Completing the Lab Make-up Permission Form 
          Attending the Make-up Lab 
How to Prepare for Lab 
When You Come into Lab 
During Lab 
At the End of Lab 
Preparation of Laboratory Reports 
Acknowledgements 
Getting Started Each Lab 
Logging into the Lab Computers 
Finding the Experiment files 
          Opening the Excel spreadsheet file 
          Enabling the Macros 
          Entering Group Member Names 
          Printing Coversheet 
          TROUBLESHOOTING: Coversheet does not print 
EXPERIMENTS
Batteries, Bulbs, and Current 
Electric Field Mapping 
Current in DC Circuits 
Voltage in DC Circuits 
Resistor Combinations and Kirchhoff’s Laws 
RC Circuits 
Magnetic Fields 
Oscilloscopes and Simple AC Circuits 
Forced Oscillations and Resonance 
Diffraction and Interference of Light 

APPENDICES
Appendix I: How to use LoggerPro with the LabPro interface and sensors
Appendix II: How to estimate the uncertainties in a measured quantity
Appendix III: How to use significant figures