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