Columbia University - Physics C1493 - Fall 1999

Prof. Brian Cole

Office:        Pupin, room 926
E-mail: cole@nevis.columbia.edu(much preferred to phone !!)
Phone:        Morningside Heights office:  4-6143  (deprecated)
Nevis:         72-2818 (use only in emergencies please)

Mon Nov 29 -- This week is the AC circuits lab -- the last of the semester. A preliminary write-up from the past semester is linked below. I will update it with some additional info tomorrow.

Tues Nov 30 -- I have posted an improved version of the write-up with more explicit instructions on what to do & how to do the lab.

Updated section assignments

Lab-writeups

• Introduction to measurement and errors (pdf) (postscript)
• Experiment #1 - Sep 21 - Sep 24 - Kinematics (pdf) (postscript)
• Experiment #2 - Sep 28 - Oct  1  - Mechanics Simulations (pdf) (postscript)
• Experiment #3 - Oct  5  - Oct  8  - Electric Field (pdf) (postscript)
• Experiment #4 - Oct 12 - Oct 15 - Magnetic Fields (pdf)(postscript)
• Experiment #5 - Oct 19 - Oct 22 - Geometric optics (pdf) (postscript)
• Experiment #6 - Oct 26 - Oct 29 - Physical optics (pdf) (postscript)
• Experiment #7 - Nov 3 - Nov 9 - Interferometers (pdf) (postscript)
• Experiment #8 -  e/m of electron (pdf) (postscript)
• Experiment #9 - Nov 16 - Nov 20 - DC Circuits (pdf) (postscript)
• Experiment #10 - Nov 30 - Dec 5 - AC Circuits (pdf) (postscript)

Schedule for November

• There will be no lecture and no lab on Tues November 2.
• As a result, labs for the month of November will run on the following schedule
• Wed, Nov 3 - Tues, Nov 9 - Lab # 7, Interferometers
• The schedule has changed.
• There will be no labs November 10-12
• We will revert to the regular week schedule for Nov 16 - 19
• There will be no labs the week of thanksgiving.
• We will do the last lab, AC circuits Nov 30-Dec 3.