PHYS 1110L Conceptual Physics Lab
(Course will be accepted when transferred in from another institution with a grade of “C” or better, but may not be offered at this institution.)
Selected laboratory exercises paralleling the topics in PHYS 1110. The laboratory exercises for this course include systems of units and
systems of measurement, vector algebra, Newtonian mechanics, fluids and thermodynamics, heat, light, and optics, mechanical waves, electricity and magnetism. The following lab skills should be incorporated into each of the labs as appropriate:
1. Uncertainties in measurements
2. Precision vs accuracy
3. Systematic vs random error
4. Calculate precent error and percent difference
5. Plot data
6. Curve fitting
7. Interpolation
8. How to use a ruler, meterstick, Vernier calipers
9. Approximations
10. Unit Conversions
Prerequisite
One Required:
MATH 1101-Mathematical Modeling (201003L), OR
MATH 1103-Quantitative Skills and Reasoning (201614L), OR
MATH 1111-College Algebra (201312L)
Corequisite
Regstr. Co-requisite: All Required
ENGL 1101-Composition and Rhetoric (201003L). True Co-requisite: All Required
PHYS 1110 - Conceptual Physics OR
PHYS 1110 with a grade of “C” or better