Physics 142: Foundations of Physics
Westminster College
Spring 2014
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. 14 | Interactions of Electric Charges | Lab. 1 |
| Jan. 21 | Simulating electric potentials | Lab. 2 |
| Jan. 28 | Simple DC circuits Simple DC circuits-Background | Lab. 3 |
| Feb. 4 | Simple DC circuits cont. | |
| Feb. 11 | Variable Voltages Lab | Lab. 4 |
| Feb. 18 | Charge to mass ratio for an electron | Lab. 5 |
| Feb. 25 | AC circuit demonstrations (motors, transistor, induced current, LRC circuits.) | |
| Mar. 4 | No Lab |
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| Mar. 11 | Spring Break | |
| Mar. 18 | Ray optics | Lab. 6 |
| Mar. 25 | Optical Systems | Lab. 7 |
| Apr. 1 | Diffraction and Interference demonstrations | |
| Apr. 8 | No Lab | |
| Apr. 15 | Photoelectric, Photovoltaic effect | Lab. 8 |
| Apr. 29 | Radioactive Decay | Lab. 9 |