Graduate Teaching Assistants
Setup Manual

for
University of Tennessee
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Introductory Physics Experiments

Revised September 10, 2014

Table of Contents

Mechanics

• The Force Table
• Acceleration Due to Gravity
• Conservation of Mechanical Energy
• Conservation of Linear Momentum
• Centripetal Acceleration and Force

• Heat of Fusion of Ice
• Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
• Ideal Heat Engine

• The Simple Pendulum
• Hooke’s Law
• Standing Waves I—The Vibrating String
• Standing Waves II—Sound Resonance in a Tube
• Boyles Law

• Electric Fields
• Ohm’s Law I—Elementary DC Circuits with Light Bulbs
• Ohm’s Law II—Resistors in Series and Parallel
• Wheatstone Bridge and Potentiometer
• Helmholtz Coils—Uniform Magnetic Fields
• Joule Equivalent of Electrical Heating
• e/m – Charge-to-Mass Ratio Experiment
• Ampere’s Law
• RC-RL Circuits
• The Oscilloscope
• AC Circuits I & II

• Refraction of Light
• Polarization of Light
• Simple Lenses
• Optical Instruments
• Speed of Light
• Diffraction of Light

• Photoelectric Effect
• Hydrogen Balmer Series and Rydberg Constant
• Poisson Statistics
• Attenuation of Radiation
• Radioactive Half-Life of Barium-137m