Lab Number and Title |
Topic |
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| 1 | Investigation of a freely oscillating spring-mass and the simple pendulum |
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| 2 | The Damped Oscillator | Study a damped oscillator both experimentally and numerically |
| 3 | Resonance and the Speed of Sound | Using standing waves in an air column to measure the speed of sound. |
| 4 | The Speed of Sound (II) | Measuring the speed of sound in air using echoes |
| 5 | Lab Challenge | Two tasks related to standing waves |
| 6 | Tutorial on Wave Synthesis and Fourier Transforms | MAP applet and
lesson on building complex waveforms from simple sine waves direct link to lesson |
| 6a | Introduction to Fourier Analysis | Lab and simulations dealing with Fourier analysis of waveforms
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| 7 | The Speed of Sound (II) | Using white noise and FFT's to measure the speed of sound in various gases. |
| 8 | Single Slit Interference | Using very crude instruments you will repeat an experiment similar to Thomas Young's 1801 experiment and measure the wavelength of light! |
| 9 | Stern-Gerlach Machines | tutorial session on the strange quantum behaviour illustrated by Stern-Gerlach Machines.
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| 10 | Schroedinger | Working with the Schroedinger Equation |