Physics 121 Laboratory Information

Prof. E. F. Redish

A Guide to the Laboratory
A description of the character, structure, and requirements for the laboratory.

Laboratory Handouts
The handouts describing the laboratory. You have paper copies in your Tutorial manual, but should read the lab ahead of time in order to plan what you are going to do.

Lab 1 : Reaction Time
Lab 2: Grandfather clock: I
Lab 3: Grandfather clock: II
Lab 4: Let it roll
Lab 5: Endangered creatures
Lab 6: There's no such thing as a free launch: I
Lab 7: There's still no such thing as a free launch: II
Lab 8: Roller coaster of statistically likely doom: I
Lab 9 : Roller coaster of statistically likely doom: II
Lab 10: Gravity: I
Lab 11: Gravity: II

Learning to use Excel -- We will be using the Excel spreadsheet in lab. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this tool, there are a number of good tutorials on the web. These two look particularly appropriate. Many others are easily found by putting "Excel tutorial" into your favorite search engine.

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Edward F. Redish
Department of Physics
University of Maryland
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Email: redish@physics.umd.edu

Last revision 26. August, 2007.