Physics 195 – Lab  

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Please print out each week's lab (SINGLE-SIDED, and 1 page per piece of paper: 

If the lab is 23 pages, please print it out on 23 separate sheets of paper.) and bring it with you to your Lab session.

1 Straight-line Kinematics  for Monday, Aug 25 and Wed, Aug 27, 2008

2 Projectile Motion

3 Newton's 2nd Law-Air Track

4 Frictional Forces

5 Centripetal Force  

6 Please download and print out both files:

     a) Range Prediction & Conservation of Energy  and  b)  Vernier Caliper Worksheet  

            * Please visit these links for addition help in using the Vernier calipers.

   These java applets show you how to read a Vernier caliper:   ^GREAT!! 

   ^{Vernier 1}

    ^{Vernier 2}

  Link to a tutorial on how to use the Vernier caliper  

7 Conservation of Linear Momentum

8 Rotational Dynamics  

9 Angular Momentum  

10 Torsion Oscillator and Ring Pendulums  

How to Make a Graph

How to Graph on Log-Log paper

Get Graph Paper here too!          

    Uncertainties and Error Propagation link  

How to use the Vernier calipers: 

   Our class hand-out on How to Read the Vernier Calipers (included in lab #6)

   Link to a tutorial on how to use the Vernier caliper

      Half Dome

                       Grand Tetons, Wy

Half Dome

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