Advanced Physics Labs

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Mechanics
Video-based Labs
Activities involving the analysis of prerecorded video clips
VLab 1 Acceleration of a Ball in a Long Fall
VLab 2 The Bouncing Ball -- A Challenge
VLab 3 Average Force of Impact in a Tennis Ball Collision
VLab 4 Investigating a 2-Dimensional Collision From the Center-of-Mass Frame
VLab 5 Assume Air Friction Cannot Be Ignored
VLab 6 The Not So Simple Pendulum
VLab 7 Deceleration of a High-Speed Projectile in Water
MGR Physics in a Rotating Coordinate System
VLab 8 The NCSSM Extreme Swings
Hands-on Labs
Activities involving hands-on experimental design and measurement
HLab 1 Period of a Pendulum
HLab 1b The Gravitational Field on 4th Bryan
HLab 2 Mass of a Ball Point Pen Ball
HLab 3 Prediction and Measurement of Final Velocities in an Elastic Collision
HLab 4 The Physical Pendulum
HLab 5 Rotational Inertia of a Ring
Computational Labs
Activities using techniques of numerical analysis to investigate motion
ELab 1 DVAT + J
ELab 2 Range of a Projectile vs. Angle of Launch for y > yo
ELab 3 Finding the Equation of Motion of an Oscillating Mass by Euler's Method
ELab 3 ext A Numerical Method for Finding the Work Done by a Spring Force
ELab 4 Equations of Motion of an Object Subject to a Fluid Drag Force
ELab 5 Orbits and Kepler's Laws
Electricity & Magnetism
  Capacitor Experiments
 110-D2 Ohm's Law and Simple Electric Circuits (PH354 review)
Lab D5 Power vs. Temperature of a Light Bulb
HLab6 RC Circuits--LabPro version
Hlab6a Determining the Dielectric Constant of your textbook
HLab 7 Sensitivity of a Galvanometer
HLab 8 Charge-to-Mass Ratio of the Electron
HLab 9 Using the Laws of Induction
HLab 10 Faraday's Law
HLab 11 Magnetic Force on a Dipole (online version)
HLab 12 Calibrating a Hall Probe (online version)
HLab 13 Magnetic Field of a Solenoid (online version)
HLab 14 RLC Resonance Activity