Table Of Contents

Physics Lab Writeup Check List

**Chapter 1 -- Introduction to Laboratory Work**
1.1 -- What Are We Doing Here?	1.2 -- Behavior and Precautions
1.3 -- Measurements	1.4 -- The Laboratory Notebook and Grading
1.5 -- Keeping a Laboratory Notebook	1.6 -- Graphs
1.7 -- Straight Lines	Appendix -- A Spreadsheet Starter Kit

**Chapter 2 -- Experimental Error Analysis**
2.1 -- Kinds of Error	2.2 -- Estimating Random Errors
2.3 -- Estimators of the Standard Deviation	2.4 -- Propagation of Errors (One Variable)
2.5 -- Propagation of Errors (Multiple Variables)	2.6 -- The Slope of a Graph
2.7 -- The Error Distribution and Confidence	2.8 -- Exercises
Answers to Exercises	Further Reading

**Chapter 3 -- Mechanics Experiments**
Familiarization Exercise Windows or DOS	Falling Bodies
Projectile Motion	Newton's Second Law
Conservation of Mechanical Energy	The Simple Pendulum
Forces in Pendulum Motion	Conservation of Linear Momentum
Moments of Inertia: The Physical Pendulum	Angular Acceleration and Moment of Inertia
Addition of Vectors: The Force Table	Impulse and Collisions
Torques/Moments

**Chapter 4 -- Electricity and Magnetism Experiments**
Some General Remarks	The Oscilloscope -- A Review
DC Circuits: Ohm's Law and Kirchhoff's Laws	Capacitance
Capacitance and the RC Circuit	The Hall Effect
Magnetic Field Mapping	Magnetic Force Between Parallel Currents
Faraday's Law

**Chapter 5 -- Waves Experiments**
Free and Forced Oscillations	Resonance in Strings
Prism Spectrometer -- Dispersion Curve for Flass (Version 1)	Prism Spectrometer -- Dispersion Curve for Flass (Version 2)
Ultrasonic Double Source Interference	Laser Interference and Diffraction
Lenses

**Chapter 6 -- Other Experiments**
Fluid Friction	Specific Heat Capacity
Conduction of Heat	Radiative Heat Transfer
The Photoelectric Effect	The Hydrogen Spectrum (Balmer Series)
X-Ray Fluorescence and the Compton Effect	Half Lives of Silver Isotopes

**Bonus Page**
Summary of Error Analysis Formulas