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Laboratory Manual for Liberal Arts Physics, 2/E
Art Hobson, University of Arkansas
Marie C. Baehr, Elmhurst College
Earl C. Swallow, Elmhurst College

ISBN-10: 0131011073
ISBN-13:  9780131011076

Publisher:  Addison-Wesley
Copyright:  2007
Format:  Paper; 272 pp
Published:  10/28/2002
Status: Instock



Designed to accompany most liberal arts physics texts, this manual includes a total of 31 labs—some traditional, some conceptual, and some computer-based. It provides the labs needed for a one-semester liberal arts physics course under a wide variety of instructional conditions.



This product accompanies:
Hobson,  Physics: Concepts & Connections, 4/E

  • NEW—Revised instructions and questions.
    • Improves students' understanding and increases clarity.
  • NEW—Revised labs with graphing calculator or computer spreadsheet options.
    • Allows students to take advantage of technology in the laboratory.
  • NEW—Improved annotated instructor's edition.
    • Gives the instructor expanded explanations of each lab's special features and requirements.
  • Conceptual emphasis.
    • Emphasizes for students ideas, concepts and relationships, not algebra.
  • Experiential emphasis.
    • Encourages students to build understanding through direct experience.
  • Predictions.
    • Asks students to predict the outcomes of experiments beforehand.
  • Estimation labs.
    • Exposes students to labs that deal with verifiable “physical” estimation.
  • Errors.
    • Shows students labs that bring out the nature and role of experimental uncertainties.
  • Econo-labs.
    • Requires students to work only with readily available, inexpensive items.
  • Group Work labs.
    • Encourages students to work in groups.
  • Models.
    • Shows students simple models as a source of scientific understanding.
  • Active learning.
    • Asks students to respond to questions throughout the lab.

EXPERIMENTS.

1. Two-Dimensional Graphing.

2. Units, Estimates, Errors.

3. How Far to a Star?

4. Physical Estimation.

5. Measurement Uncertainty.

6. Measurement and Statistics.

7 Experimental Determination of the Value of pi by Direct and Indirect Methods.

8. Kepler's First and Second Laws.

9. The Simple Pendulum.

10. Investigation of Distance, Speed and Acceleration Using a Sonic Ranger.

11. A Bowling Ball Meets Newton's Second Law.

12. Newton's Third Law: The Law of Force Pairs.

13. Static Friction.

14. Kinetic Friction.

15. Observations of Air Pressure.

16. Storing Energy.

17. Work, Energy Transfer and Power.

18. Temperature and Heating.

19. Specific Heat Capacities of Various Materials.

20. Heat Engines and Refrigerators.

21. Energy Awareness.

22. How Much Energy is Saved by Turning Down the Thermostat?

23. Thermal Insulators.

24. Waves and Wave Characteristics.

25. Reflection of Light.

26. Series Electrical Circuits.

27. Parallel Electrical Circuits.

28. The Greenhouse Effect.

29. Atoms and Light: Emission Spectra.

30. The Hubble Constant.

31. Radioactivity and Pennies.

For the Physics & Astronomy Discipline

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ISBN-10: 0201721708 | ISBN-13: 9780201721706


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