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College Physics A     
(PHY 2053C) 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 the 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 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.

Experiment Description

Cover and Table of Contents

Math Review
I
Vectors
II
Newton's Laws: Determination of g
III
Circular Motion: Centripetal Force
IV
Computer Analysis of Expt. II and III
V
Conservation of Linear Momentum
VI
Static Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies: Torques
VII
Ideal Gas Law
VIII
Specific Heat and Calorimetry
IX
Simple Harmonic Motion
X
Waves and Resonances
Appendix A&B
Graphing: Linear Functions (A) and log-log Plotting (B)

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