This packet contains the following materials:

I. General Introduction

1. Laboratory Policies

2. Schedules

1. weekly

2. semester

II. Suggestions for Data Handling (The Care and Feeding of Experimental Data)

1. Significant Figures

2. Experimental Errors – Introduction

3. Statistical Treatment of Experimental Errors

4. Error Analysis Cookbook

III. Laboratory Exercises

1. Motion

2. Graphs and Tracks

3. Plotting, Recording, Analyzing Data

4. Acceleration of Gravity (Free Fall)

5. Newton's Second Law: F=ma

6. Air Resistance

7. Pendulum

8. Sound

9. Latent Heat

10. Independent Lab

IV. Appendices

1. Curve Fitting

2. Excel Spreadsheet

3. Establishing Uncertainty