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General Physics I Lab
PHY250L | 1 Credit
Take your physics coursework a step further with General Physics I Lab. You’ll complete at-home lab experiments and answer questions that will help you fulfill your lab requirements.
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What You’ll Learn
Complete at-home laboratory experiments, track and record results, answer lab-based questions reflected in graded lab reports, and complete lab-based assessments to meet your General Chemistry I lab requirement.
- Discuss uncertainty in measurement and significant digits
- Solve problems involving linear, projectile, and circular motion
- Explain Newton’s laws and how they apply to free body diagrams
- Discuss the difference between static and kinetic friction
- Compare and contrast types of energy
- Describe how momentum is conserved in elastic collisions
- Apply Archimedes’ principle by measuring buoyant force and displaced water weight
- Differentiate between specific and latent heat
- Distinguish between work done by systems and work done on systems
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General Physics I Lab is offered as an addition to our online General Physics I course. Gain a solid foundation for further study into laboratory sciences with labs provided by eScience Labs, a leading provider of at-home lab kits and online lab instructional materials and resources.
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Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Course Text
This course requires lab kit LP-5366-PK-01 from Science Interactive. This lab kit will be available for purchase for $173 (plus shipping) after you enroll.
Course Checkpoints
Checkpoint 1: Getting Started
- The Science Interactive Cloud
- Exploration, Experimentation, and Evaluation
- Science Interactive Resources
Checkpoint 2: Lab Safety
- Safety guidelines for using Science Interactive lab kits
- Terms associated with common laboratory safety equipment
Checkpoint 3: Lab Kit Inventory
- Kit contents list
- Reviewing your Science Interactive kit
Capstone 1: Kinematics
- Displacement, velocity, and acceleration
- Motion diagrams for different types of motion
- Displacement, velocity, and acceleration versus time graphs
- Free fall motion in one dimension
Capstone 2: Centripetal Acceleration
- Uniform circular motion, tangential velocity, angular displacement, centripetal acceleration, and centripetal force
- Force that causes the centripetal motion of a spinning object
Capstone 3: Conservation of Momentum
- Momentum and impulse
- Conservation and kinetic energy
- Law of Conservation of Momentum
- Elastic and inelastic collisions
Capstone 4: Friction
- Static and kinetic friction forces and coefficients
- Static and kinetic friction
- Microscopic causes and macroscopic consequences of friction
- How friction forces are represented in free-body diagrams
Capstone 5: Measurement Techniques
- Basic and derived units of measurement commonly used in physics laboratories
- Vernier calipers are used for precision measurements
- How volume and density are calculated for solid cubes, spheres, and cylinders
Capstone 6: Specific Heat of Solids
- Heat, heat capacity, specific heat, thermal energy, and temperature
- Thermal energy transfer
- Calorimetry and calorimeters
Capstone 7: Energy
- Mechanical energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, and thermal energy
- Energy transfer and energy transformation
- Law of conservation of energy
- How energy bar charts are used to interpret energy transformation
Capstone 8: Projectile Motion
- Projectile motion, trajectory, and range
- Independence of horizontal and vertical motion
- How initial conditions affect trajectory
Capstone 9: Newton's Laws of Motion
- Inertia, velocity, and acceleration
- Newton’s three laws of motion
Capstone 10: Introduction to Experimental Errors and Uncertainty
- Error, true value, and uncertainty
- How random and systematic errors affect experimental measurements
- Accuracy and precision
Capstone 11: Contact Forces
- Contact and non-contact forces
- Static and kinetic friction
- Hooke’s law
- Normal force and tension
- How free-body diagrams are used to display forces
Assignments & Grading
Your score provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
Assignments for this course include:
- 3 Checkpoints
- 11 Capstones
What You’ll Need
- A reliable computer or laptop
- Stable internet connection
- Web browser
- Basic computer skills
- Any required course materials
- This course requires lab kit LP-5366-PK-01 from Science Interactive. This lab kit will be available for purchase for $173 (plus shipping) after you enroll.
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General Physics I Lab gives you a chance to get hands-on with the core ideas behind motion, energy, and forces — the laws engineers use all the time. Understanding these basics helps you come up with smarter and more efficient designs in your engineering career.
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- There are 195,000 job openings projected per year between 2023–2032 for engineers and architects.
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General Physics I Lab will allow you to put into practice the concepts covered in your physics courses. You’ll develop the technical skills that employers value and start earning credit toward your degree in engineering or another STEM field.
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