In each meeting there will be laboratory work. During the laboratory you will document your activities by filling in entries in the activity space provided in the laboratory units that make up Physics For Doing. The entries consist of observations, predictions, derivations, calculations, and answers to questions. You may use the same data and graphs as your partners and, of course, discuss concepts with your classmates and the instructor. However, your entries in the activity units must reflect your own understanding of the concepts and the meaning of the data and graphs you present. Each entry should be written in your own words. Below is the schedule of labs for the semester.
| Date | Laboratory (Unit) | Date | Laboratory (Unit) | ||
| Jan | 15 | MLK Day | Mar | 11 | Spring Break |
| 17 | Heat, Temperature, and Energy (1) | 13 | Spring Break | ||
| 19 | Heat of Vaporization of Nitrogen (2) | 15 | Spring Break | ||
| 22 | Finish Lab 2 | 18 | Permanent Magnets (L21) | ||
| 24 | Calorimetry (3) | 20 | Magnetic Forces on Charged Particles (L22); Magnetic Forces from Currents (L23) | ||
| 26 | Finish Lab 3 | 22 | Biot-Savart and a Straight Wire (24) | ||
| 29 | P-T Law (5) | 25 | Weighing an Electron (25) | ||
| 31 | Kinetic Theory (6) | 27 | Weighing an Electron (25) | ||
| Feb | 2 | Kinetic Theory (6) | 29 | Test 2, Weighing an Electron (25) | |
| 5 | Applying the Kinetic Theory (7) | Apr | 1 | Radioactive Decay (34) | |
| 7 | Einstein Solid (8) | 3 | Radioactive Decay (34) | ||
| 9 | Einstein Solid (8) | 5 | Radioactive Decay (34) | ||
| 12 | Entropy and Temperature (9) | 8 | Electromagnetic Induction (27) | ||
| 14 | Entropy and Temperature (9) | 10 | Visualizing EM Plane Waves (28) | ||
| 16 | Test1, Entropy and Temperature (9) | 12 | Visualizing EM Plane Waves (28) | ||
| 19 | Electric Charge and the Electroscope (10) | 15 | The Interference of Light (29) | ||
| 21 | Electrical and Gravitational Forces (L11) | 17 | The Interference of Light (29), The Diffraction of Light (36) | ||
| 23 | Introduction to the Electric Potential (12) | 19 | Test 3, The Diffraction of Light (36) | ||
| 26 | Introduction to the Electric Potential (12), Charge, Fields, and Potentials of a Point Charge (L13) | 22 | |||
| 28 | Equipotential Lines and Electric Fields (14), Charges, Fields, and Potentials of a Dipole (15) | 24 | |||
| Mar | 1 | Charges, Fields, and Potentials of a Dipole (15) | 26 | ||
| 4 | Introduction to Circuits (18) | ||||
| 6 | Introduction to Circuits (18), Ohm’s Law and Equivalent Resistance (19) | ||||
| 8 | Ohm’s Law and Equivalent Resistance (19) |