LRC Circuits
The phase differences between the output voltage, the voltage across the inductor, the voltage across the capacitor, and the voltage across the resistor...
Light Intensity vs. Distance
The relative light intensity versus distance from a point light source is plotted. As the Light Sensor is moved by hand, the string attached to the Light...
Large Amplitude Pendulum
This experiment explores the dependence of the period of a simple pendulum on the amplitude of the oscillation. Also, the angular displacement, angular...
Kirchhoff’s Circuit Laws
Kirchhoff’s Laws form the basis of all circuit analysis. Here we verify the laws for a resistive circuit using a DC input and for a time varying RC circuit.
Interference and Diffraction of Light
The distances between the central maximum and the diffraction minima for a single slit are measured...
Ideal Gas Law
The temperature, volume, and pressure of a gas are measured simultaneously to show that they change according to the Ideal Gas Law. Special cases of constant...
Hooke's Law and Spring Potential Energy
The purpose of the first portion of this experiment is to find the spring constant for two springs...
Heat Engine Cycle
A heat engine is a device that does work by extracting thermal energy from a hot reservoir and exhausting thermal energy to a cold reservoir. In this experiment,...
Hall Effect in n-Doped Semi-Conductor
The Hall Effect experiment (conducted by Edwin Hall in 1879) determines the sign of the charge carriers...
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