Physics 116L Laboratory

Fall 2008


Note that you will be using some sensitive, delicate instruments that can easily be damaged by misuse.
Read the instructions in the lab manual carefully and be sure you understand the procedures..

 Date        Experiment    
8 Sept..      0.  An Introduction to the Equipment                      
15 Sept.     1.  Electric charge                            
22 Sept.     2.  Gauss's and Coulomb's laws; Charge Distribution                   
29 Sept.     4.  Capacitance                                
6 Oct.        5.  DC circuits                                    
13 Oct .     6.  Wheatstone Bridge and Meters                    
20 Oct.      7.  Exponential Decay and Deviations from Ohm's Law   
27 Oct.             Magnetic Field  ( not in Lab Manual)    
3 Nov.       8.  The Electron e/m Ratio                        
10 Nov.     9.  Introduction to the Oscilloscope                    
17 Nov.     10.  AC Circuits:  RC and RL Combinations               
1 Dec.        11.  Resonant  and Oscillating RLC Circuits                   


Note that we are omitting the Millikan Charge on the Electron experiment and adding one on magnetic fields.
           

Sections    (RLM 7.322)