Introduction
- About this Manual
- Basic Information About Lab
- Notes on Significant Figures
- Notes on Units
- Notes on Graphing
- Notes on Measurement Uncertainties and “Error Analysis”
- Notes on Grading
Labs
- Lab 0: Tutorial Exercises on Straight Line Analysis
- Lab 1: Electrical Circuits: Basic Electrical Concepts and Measurements
- Lab 2: Electrical Circuits: Capacitance
- Lab 3: Thin Lens Geometric Optics
- Lab 4: Using a Spectrometer to Study the Reflection, Refraction, and Dispersion of Light by a Prism
- Lab 5: Measurement of Light Spectra with a Monochromator
- Lab 6: Interference of Light from a Laser
- Lab 7: Determining Planck’s Constant using LEDs
- Lab 8: Gamma Ray Spectroscopy
- Lab 9: Environmental Radiation: The Fertilizer Lab
- Polarization of Light