Department of Physics, University of Utah

REPRESENTATIVE TEXTBOOK

Introductory Physics Lab 2219. Text is purchased at University of Utah Bookstore
 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is the first semester of the Introductory Physics Lab program to accompany the Physics 2210-2220 sequence, Physics for Scientists and Engineers. The objectives of the complete collection of laboratory experiments are to give students opportunities to acquire those laboratory skills needed to function successfully in the physics laboratory. Those skills include measurement and uncertainty assessment, uncertainty propagation, basic statistical applications to experimental situations, graphing linear and non-linear data, techniques in numerical analysis, experimental design, and writing formal laboratory reports. First semester activities are concerned with learning how to measure and assess uncertainty, propagate uncertainties in calculations, motion in one and two dimensions, graphing skills in a pendulum experiment, forces in general, viscous drag forces, numerical techniques applied to an oscillation activity, designing and carrying out an experiment leading to a complete formal lab report, Newton's Second Law in a collision activity, energy and momentum conservation in a collision event, and rolling motion.
 

CO-REQUISITE

Enrollment in or completion of Physics 2210.
 

OTHER COMMENTS

Other Comments: It is highly recommended that students enroll in this lab when they enroll in the first semester of the co-requisite lecture course (Physics 2210).