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• ## Lab 1: Uncertainty and Confirmation of Hypotheses

An exploration of the basic tenets of experimental science using a specific example, with particular emphasis on uncertainty and the role it plays in confirming an hypothesis.
• ## Lab 2: Graphical Methods of Data Analysis

We develop a means for using an experiment to determine functional dependence using graphical methods.
• ## Lab 3: Testing a Theory of Air Resistance

We combine the lessons of the previous two labs (uncertainties and graphical methods) to test a proposed physical law.
• ## Lab 4: Static Friction

We employ a couple more elements of uncertainty analysis to explore the physical property of static friction.
• ## Lab 5: Energy Forms

We launch a spring into the air, using its own elastic potential energy, to test a claim about the percentage of mechanical energy that is lost when the coils of the spring slam together during the launch.
• ## Lab 6: Momentum and Impulse

In this lab we test the impulse-momentum theorem, and examine momentum and kinetic energy conservation in the context of various 1-dimensional collisions.
• ## Lab 7: Navigating the Conservation Laws

Here we perform a rather elaborate experiment to determine the coefficient of kinetic friction. To accomplish this will require pulling together concepts from both energy and momentum conservation, taking care to invoke each of these principles only when appropriate.

• ## Lab 9: Static Equilibrium

Here we just have a bit of fun with systems that balance on edges that are vertically-aligned with their centers of mass.