1. Physics I & II Preps

2. PHYSICS I

3. Modern Galileo Experiment, Picket Fence Free Fall
Photogate
Ringstand to hold gate
Plastic fences

4. Addition of Vectors
Force Tables
Slotted weights

5. Projectile Motion Track (one end elevated) and steel ball
Double photogates hooked by a pipet
Paper on floor (w/carbon paper)
Plum bobs

6. Newton's Second Law
Tracks
Plunger carts
Motion sensors

7. Static and Kinetic Friction
Tracks
Friction carts
Pulleys
Hanging weights
Motion sensor

8. Uniform Circular Motion
Spinning hanging weights ( apparatus)

9. Energy of a Tossed Ball (Video Analysis)
Meter sticks taped to walls
Video camera/ tripod
Video processing software
Basketball

10. Impulse and Momentum
Tracks
Carts
Force probes

11. Momentum, Energy and Collisions
Collision carts
Tracks
Rubber bands
Force probes

12. Rotational Motion Rotational Motion app ( large spinning disc)
Pulleys clamped to edge of bench
Slotted weights

13. Equilibrium Metal rods ( two vert. one horiz.) Force probes x2
Metal clips and metal rings

14. Coefficient of Linear Expansion
Steam generators
Metal rods and jackets
Multi Meters for continuity

15. The Gas Laws
Chem Gas Law’s Appar.

16. Heat of Fusion and Vaporization

17. PHYSICS II

18. Standing waves on strings
Wave generator
String
Pulley at edge of table

19. Resonance of air columns
Cenco standing wave Appt (long white box on top of cabinets)
Oscilloscope
Signal Generator

20. Electrical field mapping
Paper Circuit
Silver pens
Power supply
Multimeter

21. The charge on an electron, Millikan's oil drop experiment
Millikan's Appt w/ ring stand
Isopropyl Alcohol+ Distilled water - for suspending plastic beads
Smaller power supply
Multimeter

22. Ohm's Law
Vernier Circuit Board
Current voltage probes
Power supply

23. Joules' Law
Calorimeter
Multimeter
Rheostat
Power supply

24. Series/parallel circuits
See Ohm’s Law setup

25. Determination of RC Time Constant
“bread boards” from Electronics Lab
0.33microF caps ‘blue’
Multimeters
Power supply
timer

26. Force on a current carrying conductor in a magnetic field
Triple beam balances
Rheostat
Ring stand
Multimeter as Ammeter

27. The Magnetic Field of a Slinky
Slinky (taped stretched)
Magnetic field sensor (vernier)
Rheostat
Power supply
Multimeter as Ammeter

28. Geometric Optics Laser Polished metal convex/concave mirrors
Plane mirrors
Cardboard and pins

29. Measurement of the focal length of a lens
Optical Benches ( top of cabinets)
Lenses
Frosted glass screen with gradations
Black plate with arrow cutouts

30. Single slit and Double Slit diffraction patterns
Tracks
Pasco Red Diode Laser Apparatus
Large frosted glass screen

31. Polarization of Light Clip boards with polarized filters
Optical benches
Vernier light sensor
Ring stands and clamps

32. The Hydrogen Spectrum and the Rydeberg constant
Gas lamp sources
Grating Spectrometer

33. -AC circuits and the oscilloscope
Power supplies
Oscilloscopes

34. -Construction of a voltmeter and an ammeter
Power supplies
Oscilloscopes

35. -Radioactivity and the Geiger Counter
Power supplies
Oscilloscopes