Laboratory Manual College Physics for AP Courses 2nd Edition OpenStax, Rice University 9781951693619

Laboratory Manual College Physics for AP Courses 2nd Edition OpenStax, Rice University 3619 Table of Contents Information for the Student 5 Lab 1: Graphing Motion 9 Lab 2: Projectile Motion 18 Lab 3: Newton’s 2nd Law 23 Lab 4: Forces 29 Lab 5: Circular Motion 34 Lab 6: Hooke’s Law and Spring Energy 40 Lab 7: Impulse and Momentum 49 Lab 8: Conservation of Momentum 55 Lab 9: Simple Harmonic Motion 62 Lab 10: Rotational Motion 67 Lab 11: Mechanical Waves 73 Lab 12: Sound Waves 78 Lab 13: Electrostatics 82 Lab 14: Ohm’s Law 90 Lab 15: Resistor Circuits 97 Lab 16: Kinetic Theory of Matter 102 Lab 17: Gases 108 Lab 18: Fluid Dynamics 117 Lab 19: Thermodynamics 125 Lab 20: RC Circuits 131 Lab 21: Observations of Magnetic Fields 137 Lab 22: Quantitative Magnetism 143 Lab 23: Electromagnetic Induction 150 Lab 24: Mirrors 157 Lab 25: Geometric Optics 165 Lab 26: Light as a Particle 171 Lab 27: Double-Slit Interference and Diffraction 177 Lab 28: Atomic Physics 185 Lab 29: Models of the Hydrogen Atom 190 5 To the Student: Congratulations on being accepted into, and having the courage to take, an Advanced Placement biology class! You are about to delve deep into some very detailed biology concepts. This lab manual aims to help you better understand these concepts through hands-on experiences in the laboratory. In addition, it will challenge you to critically think about biology concepts, scientific methods, and experimental design as part of its inquiry-based framework. Inquiry-based learning involves challenging yourself to learn through self-discovery. Instead of simply presenting you with facts to memorize, this manual encourages you to ask questions about the material that you will then answer through your own exploration. By creating your own hypotheses and then planning and carrying out your own experiments on a variety of topics in the lab manual, you will hopefully learn biology by satisfying your own curiosity. In this AP lab manual, the inquiry-based structure includes the following components: 1. Pre-assessment section. This section contains a list of questions that you should answer before starting each activity. These are meant to get you thinking about the main concepts of each lab. The pre-assessment questions are designed to connect the concepts in each lab to your experiences in daily life. Whether you realize it or not, you observe biology constantly in the world around you. Therefore, you are likely familiar with more biology topics than you realize! The pre-assessment questions are meant to tap into the biology knowledge you already have and apply it to what you will learn in each lab. As a result, your answers to these questions may not be graded and you will benefit greatly by discussing your answers as a class. This also