Pre-Labs
You will need to print the pre-lab exercises for each in person 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 49 KB)
- Prelab 2 A Study of Co-planar Forces (PDF 59 KB)
- Prelab 3 Falling Body (PDF 50 KB)
- Prelab 4 Friction (PDF 62 KB)
- Prelab 5 Air Resistance (PDF 51 KB)
- Prelab 6 Centripetal Force (PDF 49 KB)
- Prelab 7 Collisions (PDF 42 KB)
- Prelab 8 Ballistic Pendulum (PDF 52 KB)
- Prelab 9 Acoustic Resonance (PDF 50 KB)
- Prelab 10 Standing Waves on a Vibrating Wire (PDF 52 KB)
- Prelab 11 Specific Heat and Heat of Fusion (PDF 50 KB)
- Prelab 12 Archimedes' Principle (PDF 52 KB)
- Make Up Lab Work Equivalent of Heat (PDF 116 KB)
Pre-Labs for Physics II
- Prelab 1 Digital Storage Oscilloscope (PDF 61 KB)
- Prelab 2 Ohm's Law (PDF 51 KB)
- Ohm's Law Exp How-To-Slides (PDF 778 KB)
- Prelab 3 E Fields (PDF 59 KB)
- Prelab 4 Kirchhoff's Laws (PDF 46 KB)
- Prelab 5 RC Circuits (PDF 69 KB)
- Prelab 6 Magnetic Force (PDF 44 KB)
- Prelab 7 AC Circuits (PDF 48 KB)
- Prelab 8 e m Ratio (PDF 42 KB)
- Prelab 9 Thin Lenses (PDF 43 KB)
- Prelab 10 Interference and Diffraction (PDF 42 KB)
- Prelab 11 Diffraction Grating (PDF 41 KB)
- Prelab 12 Radioactivity (PDF 43 KB)
- Make Up Lab Polarization Experiment (PDF 157 KB)
- Make Up Lab Polarization Prelab (PDF 8 KB)