PHY138Y laboratory

PHY138 laboratory

Sorin Codoban

Office: MP619, Tel: 416-978-2706
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Disclaimer: Errare humanum est. Please, read these pages with a " critic eye".

You may find useful my web page for PHY138Y tutorials .

Useful links (on Faraday)

The Error Assignment web page
The mandatory answer form for the Error Assignment.
The fitting program (access via web browser).
The instruments' specifications.
Experiment introductions (core experiments) - the new guide sheets.
Guide sheets for core and non-core experiments
The web page of the PHY 138Y/110Y laboratory
An example lab book and Toward an alternative test design (on Dr. Harrison's HP)

Other suggested readings: browse Dr. Harrison web page. A lot of interesting stuff, on various Physics topics. And on Linux.

This page and the documents written by me and available for download are for usage (and distribution) under the Open Content License, v1.0 or later (available at http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml).

How to...

write the laboratory report
provide numerical arguments in your "Discussion" section
write the formal report
(download the sample article from the Survival Guide in a nicely printable format (3 pages, .pdf, 350kb) )
retrieve g from a cubic fit (the Free Fall exp.) (2 pages, .pdf, 57kb)
deal with the error of method (the DC-I exp.) (2 pages, .pdf, 75kb)

Hints and extensions for selected experiments

DC - II (Thermistors and Diodes)
Digital Electronics - how to build an amplifier
Speed of Sound in a Solid
Free Fall - a comparison: square vs. cubic fit
Boyle's Law ^*
Speed of Sound in a Pure Gas ^*
Standing Waves^*

^* - not ready yet.

For the Lab. test

Guide sheets for the Lab. Test experiments. (download from UPSCALE)
Lab Test 2003 (Official) Announcements

Comments on the Lab. Test experiments

Common recommendations (read these first!)
Boyle's law
DC circuits and some more comments on the right choice of range.
Read also and the Err. Assignment guide sheets on accuracy errors.
Free Fall and what you may get with the fit program
Spectra
Speed of sound in a solid
The velocity of sound using standing waves
Lens optics - not done

Miscellanea

A nice, humoristic, quasi-formal report by Lucas Kovar: an undergraduate experiment.

Last revised: May 28, 2004