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Introduction To Laboratory Practices: Short Version: The abridged version. Full Version: Contains all the details.		Lab report examples: Well written “Don't do this!”
The documents above are the same as last semester, and well worth reviewing!

Week of:	Experiment:
18 Jan	Electrostatic Charges For this experiment, also watch this 3 minute video clip (Quicktime required): Large version (18M) – Small version (7M).
25 Jan	The Potential Field of a Dipole For this experiment, also print "Using a Digital Multimeter". Bring this document for the next two weeks!!
1 Feb	Ohm’s Law
8 Feb	Series & Parallel Circuits – Instructions updated 8 February 2010!
15 Feb	Magnetic Fields Strong magnets will be used. Be careful with your laptop, iPod or mp3 player!
22 Feb	No Lab this week!
1 Mar	The Laws of Faraday and Lenz
8 Mar	No Lab – Spring Break!
15 Mar	DC Motors
22 Mar	Spherical Mirrors & Index of Refraction
29 Mar	Thin Lenses
5 Apr	Diffraction and Interference
12 Apr	μ–Mesons in Flight
19 Apr	The Photoelectric Effect For this experiment, you should also review Graphing & Curve Analysis Using Microsoft Excel© 2007 and the addendum to the Excel instructions (yes, there's still a bug in Excel 2007!).
26 Apr	The Hydrogen Spectrum and Energy Levels