Proposed List of Equipment for the Low-Cost category
of the AAPT Apparatus Competition
Commonly-available equipment
in physics labs
(cost of this equipment not counted toward the $65 limit on equipment)
- ringstands
- clamps
- meter sticks
- bunsen burner
- compressed air
- generic glassware (beakers, test tubes, flasks, stirring rods)
Equipment whose cost must be included in the
cost of the apparatus
- computers
- graphing calculators
- voltmeters, ammeters
- digital voltmeters
- liquid nitrogen (take the cost of a liter of LN2 to be $1)
- DC power supplies (up to 12v)
- oscilloscopes
- with salvaged parts, one need only include the price paid for the salvaged
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