Further details about the course, deadlines and grading can be found in the course syllabus.

Physics 22 Schedule of Experiments - Fall 2005:

    for the cycle beginning on Tuesday:
  • Aug.   30   Orientation   Students should attend their regularly scheduled section for this orientation.  ( Lab manuals must be purchased from the UVM Bookstore ).

  • Sept.   6   Ex. 1 - Charging by Induction  (ActivPhysics 11.1 Questions 1-8)
  •           13   Ex. 2 - Electric Fields & Gauss's Law 
                                    (ActivPhysics 11.5 Q1,2; 11.6 Q1-3; 11.12 Q1-3 )

  •           20   * Ex. 3 - Circuit Analysis "Bulbs & Batteries"  (Part A) 
                             (ActivPhysics 12.1 Q1-5; 12.2 Q1-7; 12.3 any 2 puzzles )

  •           27   * Ex. 3 - Circuit Analysis "Bulbs & Batteries"  (continued - Part B)
                            (ActivPhysics 12.4 all parts; then use simulations in 12.5 to build
                                                                                 and analyze Part B circuits    ).

  • Oct.     4   Ex. 4 - Capacitance & Resistance 
                                                 (ActivPhysics 12.6 Q1-5; 12.7 Q1-3; 12.8 Q1,2 )

  •           11   Ex. 5 - Tangent Galvanometer  (ActivPhysics 13.1 Q1-9; 13.2 Q1-9 )

  •           18   Ex. 6 - Electromagnetic Induction & Motors
                                                    (ActivPhysics 13.6 Q1-12; 13.9 Q1-13 )

  •           25   Practicum - held during your regularly scheduled lab period.

  • Nov.    1    * Ex. 7 - Light: Laws of Reflection & Refraction  
                                                   (ActivPhysics 15.1 Q1-6; 15.2 Q1-6 )

  •             8   Ex. 8 - Lenses, Magnifiers, and Telescopes
                                                   (ActivPhysics 15.9 Q1,2; 15.10 Q1-3 )
  •           15   * Ex. 9 - "The Photoelectric Effect & Planck's Constant"
                                                    (ActivPhysics 17.3 Q1-3, 5-8 )

  •           22   No labs this week! - Thanksgiving Recess (Nov. 23-25)

  •           29   Ex. 10 - "Atomic Spectra & the Balmer Series of Hydrogen"
                                                                          (ActivPhysics 18.1 Q1-6)

  • Dec.    6   No labs this week! - Classes end on Dec. 7

* These labs are exploratory exercises designed to be completed prior to the student being introduced to the topic in Lecture.