Physics 131 Lab Info

Prof. E. F. Redish

The labs are run by Dr. Dieter Brill. If you have a question or a problem about lab or tutorials, please contact him (brill@physics.umd.edu).

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: Measurement
• Lab 2: Grandfather clock: I
• Lab 3: Grandfather clock: II
• Lab 4: Endangered creatures
• Lab 5: Let it roll
• Lab 6: Let it roll (continued)
• Lab 7: There's no such thing as a free launch: I
• Lab 8: There's still no such thing as a free launch: II
• Lab 9: Roller coaster of statistically likely doom: I [HINT]
• Lab 10 : Roller coaster of statistically likely doom: II
• Lab 11: Gravity: I
• Lab 12: 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.
1. http://phoenix.phys.clemson.edu/tutorials/excel/ http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/
2. http://www.baycongroup.com/excel.htm

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