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Physics 121 Lab Handouts
Fall 2008

Please download each week's lab handout, print it out, read it, and write down answers to any "advanced questions" before you come to lab! We will try to make the handout available by about the middle of the preceding week.

These handouts are in Adobe PDF format. If you do not have a copy of Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader, you can download Acrobat Reader for free from Adobe's web site. If a lab is available for download, its name is a clickable link which should download a PDF file to your computer.

Week of Lab
  Math Basics for Physics
September 1
September 8
"Fire in the hole!"
(Projectile motion)
September 15 Atwood's Machine and
Making & Analyzing Graphs
September 22 Friction
September 29 "Demolition Derby"
(Conservation of momentum)
October 6 Centripetal Force
October 13 No lab (Fall Break)
October 20 Torque and Rotational
Equlilibrium
October 27 Whirly Twirly Time
(Rotational Inertia)
(description and data sheets)
November 10 Ballistic Pendulum
November 17 Simple Harmonic Motion
Instructions and data sheet

This page was last updated on 19 November 2008.