Department of Physics, University of Utah

REPRESENTATIVE TEXTBOOK

Introductory Physics Lab 2029 (Text is purchased at University of Utah Bookstore General Course)
 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is the second 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. Second semester activities are concerned with sound, electrostatics, application of the basic ideas of circuit theory to design and bench test various circuit designs, magnetism and the Earth's magnetic field, Faraday's Law, geometric and physics optics, and spectroscopy.
 

CO-REQUISITE

Enrollment in of completion of Physics 2020 or 2120.
 

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 2020 or 2120).