Welcome to Physics 145, Winter Semester 2009

Introductory Experimental Physics Lab I (AC Physics)

Instructor: Branton J. Campbell

Office: N261 ESC, Tel: 422-5758

Office hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 11:00 am to Noon or by appointment.

 

Course announcements

Course syllabus & schedule

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Lab 1: Data Analysis I and II

Data Analysis Reference Materials

Error Propagation homework assignment (due at the beginning of Lab 2).

 

Labs 2-3: Geometric and wave optics, inteference and diffraction

 

Lab 4: Fourier Spectra

 

Lab 5: Computer-assisted data acquisition and experiment control

 

Labs 6-7: AC Impedance I and II

Complex Variables homework assignment (due at the beginning of Lab 6).

 

Lab 8: Loudspeakers

 

Lab 9: Transducer Response Functions

 

Lab 10: Student-Designed Experiment

 

Lecture Slides: Data Analysis, Optics, Fourier Spectra, AC Impedance, Loudspeakers