Laboratory experiments are selected to reinforce or extend the work of the lecture portion of the course. Emphasis is on electrical measurements, waves, optics and modern physics. Topics treated include mechanics, heat and thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism and light. This first semester of a one-year sequence in laboratory work emphasizes experimental techniques, procedures and formal report writing. Laboratory experiments reinforce or extend the work of the lecture portion of the course.
Emphasis is on mechanics.
Topics treated include electricity and magnetism, circuits, electromagnetic oscillations and waves, physical optics and geometrical optics. This second semester of a one-year sequence in laboratory work emphasizes experimental techniques, procedures and report writing. Laboratory experiments reinforce or extend the work of the lecture portion of the course. Emphasis is on electrical measurements, waves, optics and modern physics. An introductory course of the modern branch of physics covering the special theory of relativity, the basic phenomenology of atomic and nuclear physics and the basic concepts of quantum mechanics.