Department of Physics, University of Utah

REPRESENTATIVE TEXTBOOK

Introductory Physics Lab 2229. Text is purchased at University of Utah Bookstore
 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is the second semester of the Introductory Physics Lab program to accompany the Physics 2210-2220 sequence. The objectives of the complete collection of laboratory experiments are to continue to give students opportunities to practice those laboratory skills worked on during the first semester of the physics laboratory program. 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. 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, the charge to mass ratio of the electron, geometric and physics optics, and spectroscopy.
 

CO-REQUISITE

Enrollment in or completion of Physics 2220.
 

OTHER COMMENTS

None