General Physics Laboratory I is the first laboratory course in a two-semester sequence that covers the following main sections of classical physics studied in the lecture course of General Physics I: (1) Classical Mechanics, (2) Solids and Fluids, and (3) Thermal Physics.
The main goal of this course is to demonstrate the techniques used to carry out experimental physics. Besides learning measurement techniques, students will be trained to be very detailed in raw data collection and analysis by solving equations (just as they do in the lecture course) and come up with numerical solutions to the equations.
The laboratory experiments performed in this course complement the material covered in the General Physics I lecture course. Note however that the lecture course and the laboratory course are graded independently of each other -- the grade earned in this course (GP lab I) does not affect the grade eared in GPI and vise-versa.
- Teacher: Nga Nguyen