Advanced Physics 2 Lab Manual
The following is a complete list of lab activities from PASCO's Advanced Physics 2 Lab Manual. The following is a complete list of lab activities from PASCO's Advanced Physics 1 Lab Manual. Each lab has three versions available for download: a structured lab, a student designed lab, and a guided inquiry lab. You may preview and download these editable student handouts or export them using the chalkboard icon. These activities include AP/IB-alignment details, SPARKvue and Capstone data files.
Grade Level: Advanced Placement
Subject: Physics
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Activities
01) Hydrostatic Pressure
Students use a pressure sensor to measure the static pressure at different depths in a column of water and use their data to determine the mathematical relationship between static pressure and depth in a fluid.
02) Buoyant Force
Students use the Smart Cart force sensor to measure the buoyant force on a metal cylinder lowered into a fluid and then determine the relationship between the buoyant force on a submerged object and a) its volume and b) the weight of the fluid displaced by the submerged object.
03) Fluid Dynamics
Students determine the relationship between the velocity of a water stream as it leaves the nozzle at the bottom of a water column and the height of the water column.
04) Boyle's Law
Students use a pressure sensor and a syringe to determine the inverse proportionality between the pressure and volume of an enclosed gas.
05) Spherical Mirror Reflection
Students use an optics light source, optics track, and half screen to measure the image and object distances associated with the real image formed by a concave spherical mirror and then use principles of reflection and the spherical mirror equation to determine the mirror’s radius of curvature.
06) Snell's Law
Students use an optics ray table to measure the incident and refraction angles of a light ray traveling from air into a material with unknown index of refraction, and then, using the principles of refraction and Snell's law, they determine the material’s index of refraction.
07) Focal Length of a Converging Lens
Students use an optics light source, optics track, and viewing screen to measure the image and object distances associated with the real image formed by a converging lens, and then determine the focal length of the lens.
08) Interference and Diffraction
Students shine laser light through a double-slit aperture onto paper, measure the distances between the maxima of the resulting interference pattern, and use the principles associated with double-slit interference and diffraction to determine the spacing between the slits.
09) Electric Field Mapping
Students use a DC power supply and semi-conductive paper to create dipole and parallel plate electrodes, and then use the principles of electric fields and electric potential energy to determine the shape and direction of the electric field lines in each configuration.
10) Magnetic Fields
Students use an AC/DC electronics laboratory, a power supply, and a Magnaprobe™ wand to detect and compare the magnetic field pattern surrounding a bar magnet and a current-carrying coil.
11) Magnetic Field Strength
Students use a 3-axis magnetic field sensor and the AC/DC electronics laboratory to determine how the strength of the magnetic field at the center of a current-carrying coil depends on the coil current and radius.
12) Electromagnetic Induction
Students use voltage sensor to measure the maximum emf induced in a coil as a permanent magnet is dropped through it. Students vary the number of loops in the coil and determine how the rate of change of magnetic flux through a coil affects the magnitude and direction of the emf induced in it.
13) Capacitor Fundamentals
Students use a digital capacitance meter and construct capacitors from aluminum foil and paper to determine how physical properties of a parallel-plate capacitor affect its ability to store electric charge.
14) Series and Parallel Capacitors
Students use a capacitance meter to measure the equivalent capacitance in simple series and parallel circuits and determine the equivalent capacitance of capacitors connected in series and parallel.
15) RC Circuits
Students use a voltage sensor and a current sensor with the AC/DC electronics laboratory to determine how the potential differences across the resistors and capacitor in a simple RC circuit differ when the capacitor is charging, discharging, and fully charged, and how these differences affect the current through each component in the circuit.
16) Planck's Constant
Students use a voltage sensor and an AC/DC electronics laboratory to measure the turn-on voltage of various colors of LEDs and then plot the turn-on voltage versus LED frequency to determine the value of Planck’s constant.
