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Experiments for Physics Labs
by Herb Gottlieb
ISBN: 1-890493-10-4 Student
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ISBN: 1-890493-11-2 Teacher
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An Acclaimed Lab Manual
back by Popular Demand |
 | Uses Common apparatus |
| Good with most intro level texts |
| Optional computer programs help students
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The Author
HerbGottlieb@juno.com
Herbert H. Gottlieb, currently on the faculty of City College of New York, has taught at the high school, college and university levels. He is well known for his long service as the apparatus editor for The Physics Teacher magazine, the teaching journal of the American association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), and is active in both the AAPT and the national Association of Science Teachers. He has won over 30 local and national awards for work with students as well as for his professional work, including the prestigious Distinguished Service Citation of the AAPT.
Table of Contents
1.Measuring with Precision
2.Vector Addition of Forces
3.Torques
4.Resolution of a Force into Components
5.Forces Caused by Weights on an Incline
6.Timer Calibration
7.Recording Motion with Strobe Photographs
8.Straight-Line Motion at Constant Speed
9.Constant Acceleration Using a Water Clock
10.Acceleration of a Spinning Disk
11.Acceleration Using a linear Air Track
12.Pendulum
13.Acceleration of Free Fall
14.Mass and Weight
15.Newton's Second Law
16.Trajectories
17.Centripetal Force
18.Newton's Third Law
19.Conservation of Energy in a Pendulum
20.Energy Changes on a Tilted Air Track
21.Simple Harmonic Motion on a Linear Air Track
22.Oscillating Mass Hanging From a Spring
23.Mechanical Resonance
24.Sliding Friction
25.Boyle's Law
26.Calibrating a Mercury Thermometer
27.Linear Expansion of a Solid
28.Calorimetry
29.Change of State
30.Waves on a Coiled Spring
31.Waves in a Ripple Tank
32.Reflection
33.Refraction
34.Diffraction and Interference
35.Images and Converging Lenses
36.Images and Diverging Lenses
37.Standing Waves
38.Electric Fields
39.Charge of an Electron
40.Ohm's Law.
41.Series Circuits
42.Parallel Circuits
43.Electrical Equivalent of Heat
44.Resonance in Electric Circuits
45.Magnetic fields
46.Forces Between Current-Carrying Conductors
47.Electron Beam Deflection
48.Photoelectric Effect
49.Half-Life
Appendix
1.Laboratory Safety Procedures
2.Good Graphing Techniques
3.measurements and Significant Figures
