Fundamental Physics Laboratory
(University of Kassel, Germany)

Physics Laboratory - Part A

Linear oscillations
	- spring constant
		- static
		- dynamic

The simple pendulum
	- acceleration of gravity g

Reversible pendulum
	- acceleration of gravity g
	- reduced (pendulum) length

Torsional (wire-suspended) pendulum
	- circular wire
	- moment of inertia

Viscosity of fluids
	- kinematic and dynamic viscosity by Stokes and Hagen-Poiseulle

Ideal gases
	- temperature measurement with the (constant-volume) gas thermometer
	- tension coefficient of air

Thermal expansion
	- coefficient of thermal expansion for three metals

Electrolysis
	- elementary (electric) charge

(Electric) Potential energy sources
	- electromotive force
	- internal resistance (of the source)
	- short-circuit current

Electric resistance
	- resistivity of various  metalic wires
	- internal resistance of (electrical) instruments

Wheatstone bridge
	- unknown resistances
	- total resistance
	- parallel and serial connections

Thin lenses, the telescope
	- focal length of convex and concave lenses
	- arrangement for astronomical and terrestrial telescopes, magnification

Grating spectrometer
	- grating constant of a diffraction grating
	- wavelength of a spectral lamp

Physics Laboratory - Part B

The coupled pendulum
	- natural frequency
	- coupling strength
	- coupling length

Temperature measurements
	- thermal element calibration Uth=f(T)
	- melting point measurement of a probe

Specific heat capacity, solids
	- copper
	- glass

Specific heat capacity, fluids
	- glycerine
	- oil

Adiabatic exponent
	- relation of specific heat capacities for air by Clement Desormes
	  and Assman-Rüchardt

Forced oscillations
	- natural frequency of a (spiral spring) torsional pendulum
	- damping constant for
		- frictional damping
		- various eddy-current damping strenghts
	- resonance curves for various damping strenghts

The galvanometer
	- internal resistance
	- aperiodic limit resistance
	- current and voltage sensitivity

Tha alternative current
	- inductance of a coil
		- without        \ 
		- with an open   -  iron core
		- with a closed  /

The electron tube and the transistor
	- internal resistance, steepness, amount of influence of the anode
	  potential through the grid of a triode
	- npn-transistor (current) amplifier

Magnetic hysteresis
	- magnetization curves for transformer plates, their coercion field
	  intensity, remanence, energie loss

The Hall effect
	- magnetic field intensity, dia-, para-, ferro-magnetism
	- Hall efect, Hall coefficient

Prism spectrometer
	- cut angle
	- middle dispersion
	- dispersion curve at minimal bending

The microscope
	- object focal length
	- objective-, ocular-, and net angular magnification

Saccharimetry
	- specific rotation for beet sugar and glucose
	- solution concetration measurements

Physics Laboratory - Part C

Elastic moduli
	- bending experiments with three materials

The gyroscope
	- momentary axis of rotation, body axis
	- precession
	- moment of inertia

Experimental Fourier analysis
	- search tone procedure
	- harmonic wave content of triangular and square waves

Thermal conductivity
	- cooper           \
	- stainless steel  - via the modified Angström method
	- ceramics         /

Paramagnetism
	- magnetic susceptibility
		- CuCl2   - Quincke's height rise method
		- FeCl3   /
		- MnSO4   - Gouy's cylinder method

Refraction index of gases
	- air   \
	- CO2   -  with a Michelson interferometer
	- H2    /

Diffraction with laser light
	- Fresnel zones
	- diffraction by
		- single split
		- thin metal wire
	- wavelength (measurement) with a reflection grating

Fresnel's formula
	- oscillation plane rotation of light
	- polarization

Franck-Hertz (experiment)
	- Bohr's atomic model, excitation and ionization of atoms, current-
	  voltage spectra of electronic tubes

Nuclear decay
	- alpha-, beta-, gamma radiation
	- the Geiger counter
	- the law of radioactive decay
	- Gauß and Poisson distribution

e/m by Busch
	- elementary charge-to-mass ratio, methods of measurement
	- electron beams in axially symmetric electromagnetic fields

The oscilloscope
	- sweep circuits, mode of functioning

Stephen L. Dancs, Hon B Sc
Toronto, Canada, Tel./Fax: +1 (416) 963-9624
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Revised: July 23, 1996
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