Coordinator

Gregor Leigh - Room 3.05, RW James Building

Course resources

The instruction videos related to the PHYLAB1 practicals are available on YouTube. The availability of these materials is part of UCT's OpenContent initiative.

First semester experiments

1-1.1 Hooke’s Law Introduction (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guIZSQoONq8
1-1.2 Hookes Key points (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_DPoJ855-8
1-2.1 Uncertainty Type A and B introduction (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72IijcfUNDk
1-2.2 Uncertainty data collection (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA_wrMiZKhQ
1-3.1 Simple pendulum Key points (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNcD5db1A4
1-4.1 Free Fall key points (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAVRXYal7mI
1-4.2 Free Fall Uncertainty budget (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXSpr_zucLs
1-5.1 Simple Harmonic Motion key points (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYOH1-wwGo
1-6.1 Wave on string; standing wave (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgwv60KSaqs
1-6.2 Wave on string key points (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOgowLU1wkw
1-7.1 Optics key points (2015) TBA
1-8.1 Normal distribution key points (2015) TBA

Second semester experiments

2-1.1 Simple circuits key points (2016) https://youtu.be/NL4ySnGvizs
2-1.2 Simple circuits building circuits (2016) https://youtu.be/PI-1Ci414jc
2-1.3 Simple circuits comparing (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOF9AgjZHB0
2-2.1 Ohmic and non-ohmic key points (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZAPirLEhdk
2-2.2 Ohmic and non-ohmic building circuits (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA2i3EB2X9k
2-2.3 Ohmic and ono-ohmic interpreting graphs (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Rqrl9sSK4
2-3.1 Oscilloscope key points (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dOAb4w5BFw
2-3.2 Oscilloscope RMS or peak-to-peak (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekC4BOrK4ds
2-3.3 Oscilloscope uncertainty (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwTjzjPiRMQ
2-3.4 Oscilloscope summing voltages (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jozy5BD8fw
2-3.5 Oscilloscope triggering (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UKMbf9uJw
2-4.1 RC circuit building the circuit (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkShQuXzV-k
2-4.2 RC linearising the data (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0F3YEhM8Kg
2-4.3 RC compare and quote (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq-nOlrAMoQ
2-5.1 LRC key points (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfloixWaNi0
2-5.2 LRC graphic analysis (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5U_MyIF_BU
2-5.3 LRC comment and quote (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md9q5Ia6-jc
2-6.1 Na Spectrum key points (2015) TBA
2-6.2 Na Spectrum setting up (2015) TBA
2-6.2 Na Spectrum setting up (2015) TBA