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...
Faraday's Law of Induction
A voltage is induced in a coil swinging through a magnetic field. Faraday's Law and Lenz' Law are examined and the energy dissipated in a load resistor...
Electrostatic Charges
The purpose of part A of this activity is to compare and contrast the results of three different methods of charging: 1) rubbing two objects together;...
Electrical Equivalent of Heat
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the amount of electrical energy that is equivalent to a certain amount of thermal energy. This is accomplished...
Driven Damped Harmonic Oscillations
The oscillator consists of an aluminum disk with a pulley that has a string wrapped around it to two springs. The angular positions and velocities of the...
Driven Damped Cart Oscillations
The oscillator consists of a Smart Cart attached to two springs. The damping is provided by magnets mounted on the Smart Cart that cause eddy currents...
Conservation of Momentum
Elastic and inelastic collisions are performed with two dynamics carts of different masses. Magnetic bumpers are used in the elastic collision and Velcro®...
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