PHYSICAL SCIENCES 112 Laboratory

Spring 2005
SECTION 11 R 11-1:45

Galen T. Pickett
PH3-103
562-985-4934
gpickett@csulb.edu

OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday 9-10 am, Thursday 9-10 am.

Lab Schedule

I will report a lab grade for each of you to your lecture instructor.  Each of the lecture instructors counts your effort here in lab as approximately 25-30% of your entire semester grade.  It will NOT be possible to pass this course unless you have completed the laboratory this semester. It is vitally important that you prepare for our laboratory experience by carefully reading the writeup in your laboratory manual ahead of time.  During the first 5 minutes of class I will conduct a short 1 or 2 question reading quiz that will count for 2/10 points, while 8/10 points will be determined from your lab writeup.  These writeups will be due at the end of each laboratory period, and will be graded and returned to you the next time we meet.
 

  • 24-Jan INTRO INTRO. Lab manual, Rules, Safety forms, Read #1 in advance. Begin Exp.#1.
  • 31-Jan Exp#1 Measurements/Predictability: How do you get someone to agree with you? NOTE CHANGE IN ORDER OF EXPERIMENTS
  • 7-Feb Exp#3 The Exquisite Problem of Describing Motion
  • 14-Feb Exp#4 Free Fall: Galileo's Ingenious Argument from an Indirect Measurement
  • CAMPUS CLOSED ON MONDAY, FEB. 21 President's Day
  • 21-Feb Exp#2 Waves, Oscillations, and Musical Harmony
  • 28-Feb Exp#5A Oscillating Systems: The Spring-Mass System, a Standard "Model" of SHM Exp#5B Oscillating Systems: The Pendulum, an "Approximate Model" of SHM
  • 7-Mar Exp6A,6B The Problem of Agreeing with Someone
  • 14-Mar Exp#7 Two Universal Fundamental Ideas* *provided you carefully define what you are talking about.
  • 21-Mar SPRING BREAK MARCH 21-25
  • 28-Mar NO LABS CAMPUS CLOSED ON THURSDAY, MARCH 31 Cesar Chavez Day
  • 4-Apr Exp#8 Waves and Resonances: A Fundamental Description of a Way to Transfer and Store Energy
  • 11-Apr Exp#9 The Wave-like Nature of Light: Interference and Diffraction
  • 18-Apr Exp#10 "Seeing" the Structure of Atoms and the Composition of Stars
  • 25-Apr Exp#11 Counting Invisible Entities: Energy, Atoms, and Molecular Chemistry
  • 2-May Exp#12 The Last Experiment
  • 9-May NO LABS