TY - BOOK AU - Loyd, David H. TI - Physics laboratory manual SN - 9780030245619 (pbk) U1 - 530 PY - 2002/// CY - Australia PB - Brooks KW - Physics N1 - Includesappendices; Measurement of Length. Measurement of Density. Force Table and Vector Addition of Forces. Uniformly Accelerated Motion on the Air Track. Uniformly Accelerated Motion on the Air Table. Kinematics in Two Dimensions on the Air Table. Coefficient of Friction. Newton's Second Law on the Atwood Machine. Torques and Rotational Equilibrium of a Rigid Body. Conservation of Energy on the Air Table. Conservation of Spring and Gravitational Potential Energy. The Ballistic Pendulum and Projectile Motion. Conservation of Momentum on the Air Track. Conservation of Momentum on the Air Table. Centripetal Acceleration of an Object in Circular Motion. Moment of Inertia and Rotational Motion. Archimedes' Principle. The Pendulum-Approximate Simple Harmonic Motion. Simple Harmonic Motion-Mass on a Spring. Standing Waves on a String. Speed of Sound-Resonance Tube. Specific Heat of Metals. Linear Thermal Expansion. The Ideal Gas Law. Equipotentials and Electric Fields. Capacitance Measurement with a Ballistic Galvanometer. Measurement of Electrical Resistance and Ohm's Law. Wheatstone Bridge. Bridge Measurement of Capacitance. Voltmeters and Ammeters. Potentiometers and Voltmeter Measurements of the Emf of a Dry Cell. The RC Time Constant. Kirchhoff's Laws. Magnetic Induction of a Current Carrying Long Straight Wire. Alternating Current LR Circuits. Alternating Current RC and LCR Circuits. Oscilloscope Measurements. Joule Heating of a Resistor. Reflection and Refraction Using a Ray Box. Focal Length of Lenses. Diffraction Grating Measurement of the Wavelength of Light. Hydrogen Spectrum and the Rydberg Constant. Simulated Radioactive Decay Using Dice "Nuclei". Geiger Counter Measurement of the Half-Life of 137(Ba. Nuclear Counting Statistics. Absorption of Beta and Gamma Rays. Appendices ER -