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Date PHY-2048L General Physics I Lab, Mechanics

Thu 10
Syllabus presentation
May
Lab: Experimental Uncertainty (Error) and Data Analysis
Thu 10
May
Equipment needed: NONE!
Lab: Measurement Instruments (Mass, Volume, and
Density)
Equipment needed:
Laboratory balance
Vernier caliper
Micrometer caliper (metric)
Meter stick
Tue 15
Graduated cylinder
May
Cylindrical metal rod (for example, aluminum, brass, or
copper)
Sphere (metal or glass, for example, a ball bearing or
marble)
Short piece of solid copper wire
Rectangular piece of metal sheet (for example, aluminum)
Irregularly shaped metal object
Lab: Uniformly Accelerated Motion: free-fall
Equipment needed:
Free-fall apparatus
Thu 17 Meter stick
May 2 steel balls of different masses
Meter stick
Laboratory timer or stopwatch
One sheet of graph paper
Lab: Addition and Resolution of Vectors, The Force Table
Equipment needed:
Force table with four pulleys
Four weight hangers
Set of slotted weights (masses), including three of 50 g and
Tue 22
three of 100 g
May
String
Protractor
Ruler
Level
3 sheets of Cartesian graph paper

Thu 24 Lab: Newton's Second Law, The Atwood Machine

May Equipment needed:

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Pulley on stands
Two weight hangers and weights (masses)
String
Laboratory timer or stopwatch
Meter stick
Lab: Ballistic pendulum Conservation of Linear
Momentum,
Equipment needed:
Ballistic pendulum
Tue 29 Meter stick
May Protractor
Laboratory balance
Masking tape
1 sheet of Cartesian graph paper
Safety glasses
Lab: Centripetal Force
Equipment needed:
Centripetal Force Apparatus
Laboratory timer or stopwatch
Thu 31
Weight hanger and slotted weights
May
Vernier caliper
Support rod and clamp
String
Safety glasses
Lab: Torques, Equilibrium, and Center of Gravity
Equipment needed:
Meter stick
Tue 05 Support stand and clamps
Jun Laboratory balance
String
Four hooked weights (50 g, two 100 g, and 200 g) per set
Unknown mass with hook
Lab: Archimede's principle, buoyancy
Equipment needed:
Weight scales
Thu 07 Spring scales
Jun Weights, 200g, 500 g
Irregular shaped objects, igneous rocks, basaltic rocks...
Graduated cylinders 200 mL at least
Graduated beakers, 250 mL at least
Lab: Simple Harmonic Motion
Equipment needed:
Tue 12 Coil spring
Jun Wide rubber band
Slotted weights and weight hanger

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Laboratory timer or stopwatch

Meter stick
Laboratory balance
2 sheets of Cartesian graph paper
Lab: Speed of Sound in air
Equipment needed:
Thu 14
Resonance-speed of sound- column
Jun
Tuning forks, various frequencies
meterstick
Lab:
Standing Waves
Equipment needed:
Electric string vibrator
Clamps and support rod
Tue 14
Pulley with rod support
Jun
String
Weight hanger and slotted weights
Meter stick
Laboratory balance
1 sheet of Cartesian graph paper

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