Science 130: Physics for the Curious
Westminster College
Spring 2011
Resources- When the skies are dark and clear it is nice to know what you can see at night. You can download a sky chart from Sky maps, a good place to get uptodate information.
| Date | Description | Documents |
| Date | Description | Documents |
| Jan. 20 | Naked Eye Astronomical Observations | Lab. 1 |
| Jan. 27 | Orbit of Mercury |
Lab. 2
and Worksheet |
| Feb. 3 | Gravity | Lab. 3 |
| Feb. 10 | Radioactive Dating | Lab 4 |
| Feb. 17 | Review | |
| Feb. 24 | Static Fluids | Lab. 5 |
| Mar. 3 | Fluids in motion--Bernoulli's equation | Lab. 6 |
| Mar. 10 | Paper airplane lab | Lab. 7 |
| Mar. 17 | Spring Break | |
| Mar. 24 | Building and testing airplanes Some example planes from a previous course | Lab. 8 |
| Mar. 31 | Introduction to electrons and electromagnetic fields | Lab. 9 |
| Apr. 7 | Reflection and refraction | Lab. 10 |
| Apr. 14 | Diffraction and interference | Lab. 11 |
| Apr. 28 | Lenses | Lab. 12 |
| May 4 | Solar Power | Lab. 13 |