110 Physics Laboratory Schedule

No. Laboratory Name Week
- Partial Week (No Lab) January 16-18
- Martin Luther King Holiday (No Lab) January 21-25
1 Introduction, safety, Simple Machines, Vectors
and Galileo's Experiment to measure g.
January 28 - February 1
2 Springs, Pendulum, torsiion pendulum,
Clocks, Mechanical oscillators
February 4-8
3 Basic Heat and Temperature,
Thermometers
February 11 - 15
4 Calorimetry, Heat Capacity
and Phase Transitions
February 18 - 22
5 Taking apart a four-cycle
gasoline engin, Heat Pumps
February 25 -29
- Spring Break (No Lab) March 3 - 7
6 Electrostatics, Permanent Magnets
and the Magnetic compass
March 10 - 14
7 Series and parallel circuits, Ohm's Law,
Light bulbs and Resistive Heating
March 17 - 21
8 Motors and Generators March 24 - 28
9 Lenses, mirrors, prisms
and Simple Ray Optics
March 31 - April 4
10 Diffraction Gratings, Atomics Spectra
and Wave interferenc
April 7 -11
11 Building a Simple Telescope April 14-18
- Last week of Class (No Lab) April 21-25