EQUIPMENT FOR PHYSICS LABORATORY

EXPERIMENTS

Electricity and Magnetism Name of the Experiment:

“Charging a capacitor when switching AC on (Using CRO)” “Discharging a capacitor when switching AC off (Using CRO)”

Description:

  1. Investigating the behavior of the voltage at a capacitor when an AC voltage is switched on and off.
  2. Determining the half-time.

 

Equipment:

    • 1: Oscilloscope 30 MHz, two-channel, analogous
    • 2: Function generator S 12
    • 3: Plug-in board, DIN A4
    • 4: Screened cable, BNC/4 mm
    • 5: Test Cable
    • 6: resistor 470 Ω, 2 W, STE 2/19
    • 7: capacitors 1 µF, 100 V, STE 2/19

Name of the Experiment:

“Magnetic force due to a current-carrying wire using current balance”

Description:

•The magnetic force of a current-carrying wire.

•The effects of current, length of wire and magnetic field strength on the magnetic force.

 

Equipment:

    • 1: Power supply with stabilized DC
    • 2: cables “connecters”
    • 3: Current balance set
    • 4: Electronic balance (0.001-300g resolution)
    • 5: Goniometer
    • 6: 1 Base tripod

Name of the Experiment:

“Observations on Static Electricity”

Description:

This experiment is conducted to have observations on static electricity.

Equipment:

    • 1: Van der Graff generator

Name of the Experiment:

“Determination of voltage change on transformers” “Efficiency (η) of Transformer”

Description:

  1. To measure the voltage change for coils of different turn.
  2. To calculate the efficiency (η) of transformer.

 

V= 10 volts

Voltmeter

 

Equipment:

    • 1: Power supply (AC)
    • 2: Cables
    • 3: Coils (400,800,1600 and 3200 turns)
    • 4: Multimeter
    • 5: Iron core

Name of the Experiment:

“Charging a capacitor when switching DC on (Using Multimeter)” “Discharging a capacitor when switching DC off (Using Multimeter)”

Description:

1.Measuring the charging and discharging curve of a capacitor. 2.Determining the time constants.

  1. Determining the capacitance of the capacitor.
  2. Recognizing the influence of the component tolerances on the measurement results.

 

Equipment:

  • 1: Plug-in board, DIN A4
  • 2: STE resistor, 47 kΩ, 0.5 W, 5 %
  • 3: STE capacitor, 470µF, 16 V
  • 4: STE changeover switch, single pole
  • 5: Power supply 0-24 V AC/DC (15 V DC) Frederiksen
  • 6: Pairs of connecting leads, red/blue, 50 cm
  • 7: Set of 10 bridging plugs
  • 8: Student’s stopwatch
  • 9: Voltmeter, 15 V DC

Mechanics Laboratory

Name of the Experiment:

“Average Speed and Instantaneous Speed”

Description:

The main objective of this experiment is to investigate the relationship between the positions, velocity of an object, moving in one dimension, along a straight line. To measure the average speed of a moving object, and to determine instantaneous speed from series of average speeds.

 

Equipment:

    • 1: Air Track.
    • 2: Elastic Bumper
    • 3: Leveling adjust
    • 4: cart
    • 5: Reflector

Name of the Experiment:

Determination of Gravitational Acceleration (g) with Motion Detector

Description:

This experiment will show that an object under the influence of gravity alone accelerates at a constant rate. We will also measure gravitational acceleration and compare with the actual value of 9.81 m/s2.

 

Equipment:

    • 1: Motion Detector
    • 2: Connecting cable

Name of the Experiment:

“Determination of Equilibrium of Forces Using Force Table”

Description:

The purpose of this experiment is to determine forces in equilibrium (Balance of Forces) and Students will verify the conditions required for a system to be in equilibrium (zero net force) using cosine law theory or the addition of forces and graphs method.

 

Equipment:

    • 1: Base
    • 2: Weight holder with slotted weights
    • 3: Clamps with pulleys
    • 4: Center rod
    • 5: Mount for cords
    • 6: Work disc

Name of the Experiment:

“Determination of the Initial Velocity in Projectile Motion”

Description:

This experiment is performed to determine the initial velocity of a projectile motion (horizontal throw) with kinematics and the conservation of energy.

 

Equipment:

    • 1: Curved path.
    • 2: Ruler.
    • 3: Metal ball.

Electronics laboratory

Name of the Experiment:

Recording the current-voltage characteristics of diodes

Description:

Studying the current I as a function of the voltage U for germanium diode.

 

Equipment:

  • 1: AC/DC Power supply 0…12 V / 3 A.
  • 2: Rostered socket panel DIN A 4
  • 3: Multimeters LD-analog 20
  • 4: Connecting Lead 100 cm Red
  • 5: STE Resistor 100 Ω, 2 W
  • 6: STE Ge-Diode AA 118

Name of the Experiment:

Rectifying AC voltage using diodes- Half-wave Rectification and Filtering

Description:

Explores the function of half-wave and full-wave rectifiers in the rectification of AC voltages. To be able to construct a circuit with a transformer, diode, load resistor and reservoir capacitor for half-wave rectification of an A.C. voltage. 2- To be able to measure the output voltage as a function of time with the Oscilloscope and as direct voltage with the moving coil meter Vdc. 3- To be able to recognize the dependence of the output voltage in respect of its curve shape and magnitude upon the size of the reservoir capacitor and load resistor

 

Equipment:

    • 1: Two-channel oscilloscope 400
    • 2: Plug-in board DIN A4, STE
    • 3: Multimeter LD-analog 20
    • 4: Connecting lead 19 A, 50 cm, red/blue, pair
    • 5: Bridging plugs STE 2/19, set of 10
    • 6: Capacitors 4.7, 47, and 100 micro-Farad
    • 7: Screened cable BNC/4 mm plug
    • 8: Diode 1N 4007, STE 2/19

Optics laboratory

Name of the Experiment:

“Law of Distance and use of a photo-voltaic cell”

Description:

  1. To verify the inverse square law
  2. To draw the spectral distribution curve for the given cell

 

Equipment:

    • 1: white light source
    • 2: luxmeter
    • 3: filter holder
    • 4: Photo-voltaic cell
    • 6: shutter to cover the cell

Name of the Experiment:

“Study and use of the Spectrometer”

Description:

  1. To find the refractive index of the prism.
  2. To study the resolving power of prism.

 

Equipment:

    • 1: Spectrometer/gonium. w. Vernier.
    • 2: Lamp holder, Pico 9, f. spectra. Lamps.
    • 3: Spectral lamp Hg 100, Pico 9 base.
    • 4: Power supply for spectral lamps.
    • 5: Prism, 60 degrees, h – 30 mm, crown.
    • 6: Bench clamp, -PASS.

Name of the Experiment:

Determination of Refractive Index of Solid and Liquid.

Description:

To determine the refractive index of solid and liquid using traveling (movable)microscope.

Equipment:

    • 1: Traveling microscope.

Name of the Experiment:

Refraction of Light

Description:

In this experiment refraction is described in terms of the ray model of the light. The aim of this experiment is to study the refraction of light from plane (flat) surfaces. To find the unknown refractive index and to verify Snell’s law.

 

Equipment:

    • 1: Glass slab
    • 2: Directed light (single slit light or laser pointer)
    • 3: A4 paper

GENERAL VIEW OF EQUIPMENT FROM PHYSICS LABORATORY

  • Resisters
  • Capacitors
  • Diodes

  • Transformers
  • STE changeover switch, single pole
  • Potentiometer, 1 k n, 10- turn, STE 4/50

  • Rotating

induction coil (earth inductor)

  • Diodes

  • Oscilloscope

  • Oscilloscope

  • Transformers
  • Potentiometer, 1 k n, 10-turn,

  • Wave Mechanics
  • Wave Mechanics
      • Newton Color Disc

  • Reflection Angle Disc

  • Optics Disc and Prism Set

➢ Set of 8 Tuning Forks with Mallet

  • Set of 8 tuning Forks with Mallet
    • Acrylic Prism Set