Pre-Labs
You will need to print the pre-lab exercises for each experiment. Your answers must be hand-written. Pre-lab exercises are due without exception at the beginning of the laboratory period. Pre-lab exercises received late will receive no credit. These exercises are to be done individually, not collaboratively, using your lab manual and textbook.
Note: Experiments are not performed in the order below.Check the lab schedule to ensure that you complete the appropriate prelab.
Credit will not be given if you complete the incorrect prelab.
Pre-Labs for Physics I
- Prelab 1 Measurement and Error Analysis (PDF 125 KB)
- Prelab 2 A Study of Co-planar Forces (PDF 51 KB)
- Prelab 3 Falling Body (PDF 43 KB)
- Prelab 4 Friction (PDF 59 KB)
- Prelab 5 Air Resistance (PDF 42 KB)
- Prelab 6 Centripetal Force (PDF 41 KB)
- Prelab 7 Collisions (PDF 40 KB)
- Prelab 8 Ballistic Pendulum (PDF 50 KB)
- Prelab 9 Acoustic Resonance (PDF 47 KB)
- Prelab 10 Standing Waves on a Vibrating Wire (PDF 49 KB)
- Prelab 11 Specific Heat and Heat of Fusion (PDF 47 KB)
- Prelab 12 Archimedes' Principle (PDF 117 KB)
- Make Up Lab Work Equivalent of Heat (PDF 116 KB)
Pre-Labs for Physics II
- Prelab 1 Digital Storage Oscilloscope (PDF 119 KB)
- Prelab 2 Ohm's Law (PDF 48 KB)
- Ohm's Law Exp How-To-Slides (PDF 778 KB)
- Prelab 3 E Fields (PDF 57 KB)
- Prelab 4 Kirchhoff's Laws (PDF 45 KB)
- Prelab 5 RC Circuits (PDF 100 KB)
- Prelab 6 Magnetic Force (PDF 43 KB)
- Prelab 7 AC Circuits (PDF 75 KB)
- Prelab 8 e m Ratio (PDF 40 KB)
- Prelab 9 Thin Lenses (PDF 41 KB)
- Prelab 10 Interference and Diffraction (PDF 40 KB)
- Prelab 11 Diffraction Grating (PDF 39 KB)
- Prelab 12 Radioactivity (PDF 41 KB)
- Make Up Lab Polarization Experiment (PDF 157 KB)
- Make Up Lab Polarization Prelab (PDF 8 KB)
