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College Physics B     
(PHY 2054C) Department of Physics, Florida State University
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Laboratories

    Twelve laboratory sessions are offered for this course. You must be enrolled in one of the sessions. If you cannot attend the session you are enrolled in you need to inform your TA and attend another lab session that same week. Attending all lab sessions and submitting a satisfactory report for each lab are required to pass this course. Below is the list of experiments for this semester. The lab manual is posted in PDF format. The PDF format removes the printing problem with Greek symbols and other mathematical symbols on some computers. In order to read PDF files you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have a copy of the Acrobat Reader, you can download a copy free of charge from the Adobe web site.

Experiments: Description


I
E&M: Electric Field and Equipotential Lines
II
E&M: Ohm's Law and Resistor Circuits    (need Appendix C)
III
E&M: Magnetic Field of a Coil
IV
E&M: Thermistors and the Wheatstone Bridge    (need Appendix C)
V
E&M: Oscilloscope and AC Circuit ( I )    (need Appendix A & B)
VI
E&M: Meters
VII
Optics: Image Formation by Thin Lenses
VIII
Optics: Laser Light
IX
Optics: Diffraction Gratings
X
Nuclear: Emission Spectrum of 137Cs    (need Appendix A)
XI
Nuclear: Absorption of Gamma-Rays by Lead and Aluminum     (need Appendix A)


Appendices:
Appendix A
Tenma Oscilloscopes
Appendix B 3011B Function Generator
Appendix C Using a Spreadsheet Program to Analyze Your Experiment
 (slightly outdated: Now we use Excel..)

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