Physics 50 lab instructor info

Note: this was last updated Spring 2013 - it is out of date and doesn't reflect changes made by Dr. Kress since then. It is available as a resource but see the current syllabus and manual for what is being covered this semster.

Syllabus, Lab manual and Example lab reports

• Week 1, Introductory meeting and Statistics lab.
• Week 2, Measurements and Precision
• Week 3, Free Fall
• Week 4, Newton's Laws
• Week 5, Vector Addition
• Week 6, Centripetal Forces
• Week 7, Friction
• Week 8, Work & Energy
• Week 9, Linear Momentum
• Week 10, Ballistic Pendulum
• Week 11, Torque and Angular Momentum
• Week 12, Conservation of angular momentum
• Make-up lab, Numerical Solutions to F=ma