Physics 152: Principles of Physics
Westminster College
Spring 2009
Resources- Data analysis software
Data Studio, the software that we use to take and analyze data in the lab, is available for you to use on your own computer (this is legal because of the physics deparment's site license). To install Data Studio on your computer download the software from the manufacturer's website and request the site license codes from me. - Computer Modeling software
In the lab we also use visual python to make 3-D models of physical situations. This software is freely available and can be downloaded here. - Measurement uncertainty estimation and propagation methods.
| Date | Description | Documents |
| Date | Description | Documents |
| Jan. 20 | Interactions of Electric Charges and vPython tutorial | Lab. 1 and vPython hand out. |
| Jan. 27 | Electric Fields - vPython simulation of proton and dipole E-fields | vPython via email |
| Feb. 3 | Electric Fields - vPython simulation of line and ring charge E-fields | vPython via email |
| Feb. 10 | Electric Fields and Potentials- experimental mapping of potentials and fields. | Lab. 4 |
| Feb. 17 | Simple DC circuits Simple DC circuits-Background | Lab. 5 |
| Feb. 24 | Simple DC circuits | Cont. |
| Mar. 3 | RC circuits and Oscilliscopes | Lab. 6 |
| Mar. 10 | Charge to mass ratio for electron Formal Report Guidelines | Lab. 7 |
| Mar. 17 | Spring Break | |
| Mar. 24 | vPython: proton in a B-field and
B-field of a moving proton | vPython shell |
| Mar. 31 | Lecture and electromagnetic demos | |
| Apr. 7 | Exam #3 | |
| Apr. 14 | Period of an Oscillating object | Lab. 8 |
| Apr. 21 | Velocity of 1-D waves | Lab. 9 |
| Apr. 28 | Ray optics | Lab. 10 |