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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:
19 Jan	Electrostatic Charges For this experiment, also watch this 3 minute video clip (Quicktime required): Large version (18M) – Small version (7M).
26 Jan	The Potential Field of a Dipole For this experiment, also print "Using a Digital Multimeter". Bring this document for the next two weeks!!
2 Feb	No Lab This Week
9 Feb	Ohm’s Law
16 Feb	Series & Parallel Circuits
23 Feb	Magnetic Fields Strong magnets will be used. Be careful with your laptop, iPod or mp3 player!
2 Mar	The Laws of Faraday and Lenz
9 Mar	Optics I: Spherical Mirrors and Index of Refraction
16 Mar	No Lab – Spring Break!
23 Mar	Optics II: Lenses – Instructions updated 17 March 2009!
30 Mar	Optics III: Diffraction and Interference
6 Apr	μ–Mesons in Flight
13 Apr	The Hydrogen Spectrum and Energy Levels
20 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!).
27 Apr	No lab this week! Good luck on your finals!