Department of Physics, University of
Utah
Course Number: 2019 (1)
Course Title: General Physics Lab
I
- REPRESENTATIVE TEXTBOOK
- General Physics Lab I (Text is purchased at University of Utah Bookstore General
Course)
- COURSE DESCRIPTION
- Description: This is the first semester of the Introductory Physics Lab program to
accompany either the Physics 2010-2020 or the 2110-2120 sequences. The objectives of the
complete collection of laboratory experiments are to give students opportunities to experience
how physics is done in the laboratory, to encounter experimental situations that aid in
understanding the basic concepts of physics, to experience first hand how physicists come to
know what they know, and to engage in the full set of laboratory demands: making
measurements, assessing uncertainty, designing experiment protocols, testing hypotheses,
graphing, and making inferences based on data about the goals of the experiment. First semester
activities are concerned with motion in one and two dimensions, forces and Newton's Laws,
energy and momentum, rotational behaviors, oscillations, and thermal physics.
- CO-REQUISITE
- Enrollment in or completion of Physics 2010 or 2110.
- OTHER COMMENTS
- It is highly recommended that students enrol in this lab when they enroll in the first
semester of the co-requisite lecture course (Physics 2010 or 2110).
- MANDATORY TOPICS
- Topic 1:
- Course Introduction
- Topic 2:
- Distance Versus Time Graphs
- Topic 3:
- Velocity and Acceleration Graphs
- Topic 4:
- Data Collection and Analysis: Projectile Motion
- Topic 5:
- Force
- Topic 6:
- Newton's Laws in Action
- Topic 7:
- Archimede's Principle
- Topic 8:
- The Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
- Topic 9:
- Mechanical Energy Conservation
- Topic 10:
- Rotational Motion
- Topic 11:
- Rolling Motion and Moment of Inertia
- Topic 12:
- The Relationship Between Heat and Temperature
- Topic 13:
- Oscillations (Simple Harmonic Motion)
- Topic 14:
- Make-Up Week and Check-Out
- Links to exisiting web page for this course:
- Elementary Physics
Labs
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Sid Rudolph (2/15/99)