Physics equations/Journal Sp15 Phy2400

Category:Physics equations/Journals    Category:Physics and Astronomy/Labs

Monday, January 12, 2015
Covered first two chapters: Mathematics for this course and Physics_equations

Tuesday, January 13, 2015
2 h lab Matlab tutorial by mathworks via MATLAB/Getting started

Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Wikiquizzes for next test.

Thursday, January 15, 2015
2 hour lab. Use wikiversity Matlab tutorial. character strings and 3d plots.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015
2 hour lab. Used matlab on student projects. Wrote script file to convert mil to degrees. Also introduced symbolic differentiation.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Wikiquizzes

Thursday, January 22, 2015
2 hour lab. Matlab: look at symbolic codes.

Angular diameter lab. Investigate two different ways to make 20 degrees, and how to best express the data. (Did this in hall and collected good data).

Monday, January 26, 2015
Reviewed for test.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Optional test review.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Test 1.

Thursday, January 29, 2015
No lab due to test.

Monday, February 02, 2015
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Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Dropping paperclips on a coffee can.
 * 1) Read about an interesting error analysis.
 * 2) Does the string stretch too much?
 * 3) develop the theory using equations of motion for free fall
 * 4) derive the n squared rule.  The initial height of the nth paperclip is proportional to n squared.
 * 5) This lab allows us to measure g

Wednesday, February 04, 2015
Chapter 4 wikiquizzes

Thursday, February 05, 2015
Analyze audio file to measure g &approx; 15 m/s/s.

Monday, February 09, 2015
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Radioactive decay lab and a look at sum of squares as a means to fit data to a model.

Wednesday, February 11, 2015
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Thursday, February 12, 2015
''' accident reconstruction lab. NEXT TIME: fprintf dummed down for 'versity' '''

clc;clear all; close all; %This code does passing situation. % First we document and define variables. % t = time. % I am subscript r(red) trying to pass b (blue) slowpoke against % incoming g (green) tmax=2;

xr0=0; xb0=5; xg0=100; %initial positions vr0=25; vg0=-30; a=5.5; %my acceleration (note this is 1/10 of a g=9.0) t=linspace(0,tmax,100); %EXPERIMENT %t = [0:.1:tmax];% where will we be 10 seconds later? %the above numbers will late be proper inputs

% start code

vb0=vr0; %always assume slowpoke and I are at same speed.

xr= xr0  +  vr0.*t  +  .5*a.*t.^2; %this is an array just like t plot(t,2.23694*xr,'r'); hold on;

xb= xb0  +  vb0.*t  ; %this is an array just like t plot(t,2.23694*xb,'b'); hold on; xg= xg0  +  vg0.*t  ; %this is an array just like t plot(t,2.23694*xg,'g'); title('I am red trying to pass blue against incoming green'); xlabel('time (s)'); ylabel('distance (ft)');

%Summary

zvslowMPH=vb0*2.23694 zfollowingDistanceFeet=xb0*3.28084 zvoncomingMPH=vg0*2.23694 zFeetFromOncoming=xg0*3.28084 zAccel=2.23693629*a

Monday, February 16, 2015
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
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Monday, February 23, 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
2 h lab steam tables

Wednesday, February 25, 2015
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
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Monday, March 09, 2015
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
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Monday, March 16, 2015
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
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Monday, March 23, 2015
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
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2 hour lab: 3d plot in matlab and verifying algebra on happy/sad ball knockdown calculation.


 * 1) $$z = x^2+2y^2$$ for x, y on the interval [0,1].  We found plot3 which plot lines in 3D.  Want surfaces.  Also found contour3 and other stuff in 3-D Function Plots.
 * 2) Verify the first step in Topic:Advanced_Classical_Mechanics/Compound_ballistic_pendulum_with_spinning_ball

Monday, March 30, 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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Wednesday, April 01, 2015
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Thursday, April 02, 2015
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Monday, April 06, 2015
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Tuesday, April 07, 2015
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Wednesday, April 08, 2015
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Thursday, April 09, 2015
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Monday, April 13, 2015
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Monday, April 20, 2015
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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Thursday, April 23, 2015
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Monday, April 27, 2015
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
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