SUNY-Geneseo/Physics & Astronomy

PHYS 124: Analytical Physics I Lab

Fall 2008
Section 3: Wednesday 3:30-6:30pm

Course Information:

  
Dr. Mclean's home page
Syllabus Required Course Materials  
Pictures of the labs (via links on Dr. Pogo's course page)  

Course Web Links:

    
Video analysis instuctions (Geneseo login required)
Direct link to Tracker
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Here's a page about the 4 different ways in which you can obtain uncertainties.

Links activated (white background) as they become available or are updated for this year.

Assignment Sheets

Lab when Handed Out Worksheets
1 (9/1) Readiness Worksheet
1 (9/1) Sig. Digits Worksheet
2A (9/15) Graph Fitting by hand
2B (9/22) Uncertainty Propagation
4A (9/29) Projectile Worksheet
6A (11/10) For help with log book ONLY.  Do not hand in.  Momentum Conservation Spreadsheet

Calculation Checkers

The following Excel spreadsheets allow you to check whether you have correctly done the calculations.
When using these, be careful to include the required number of significant figures.

These are still in .xls format because there is an incompatibility between Mac and Windows versions saved in the .xlsx format..

Projectile Motion
Newton's Second Law
Momentum Conservation
Momentum Conservation with SigDigs

Solutions

due date Worksheets Quizzes
9/1   Quiz 1
9/15 Sig. Digits Quiz 2A
9/22 Uncertainty in Graphing Quiz 2B
9/29

 

 Quiz 3
10/6 Uncertainty Propagation Quiz 4A
10/13 Fall Break  
10/20   Quiz 4B
10/27 Projectile Worksheet Quiz 5A
11/3   Quiz 5B
11/10   Quiz 6A
11/17   Quiz 6B
11/24   Quiz 7
12/1 Thanksgiving  
12/8   Quiz 8

Written Assignments

Grading codes and abbreviations
used on Reports and Abstracts

due date Assignment Handout
9/29 Brief Report on 1D Acceleration Reporting Lab Results
10/8 Revised Brief Report  
11/3 Presentation Abstract on Projectile Motion Presentation Abstracts
11/10 Paper Abstract on Newton's 2nd Law Article Abstracts
12/8 Paper Abstract on Rotational Inertia