Files on this page are in a variety of formats. See note.
Spring 2010 calender and syllabus • .ods • Generic syllabus and calendar in text
General education program laboratory science outcome assessment rubric
Access to material from other terms
Lab write-up format sample (odt)
Notes on durable for life email addresses
Space, time, and matter. The rest is energy.
011 Measuring space, time and matter: Getting to know your personal measurements
012 Laboratory one: Speaking on a soap box
Making XY graphs in OpenOffice 2.4 and 3.0 [T?]
Making XY graphs in Excel [T?]
021 Measuring motion: What is your velocity?
022 Laboratory two: Linear motion A rolling ball gathers no moss
031 Parabolic path: The arc of a sphere
032 Laboratory three: accelerated motion Dropping the ball on the job
041 Conservation of energy: Banana leaf marble ramp
042 Lab 04: Momentum Loosing your marbles
The Book of Phyz by Dean Baird
061 Introduction to temperature: boiling and melting
062 Laboratory six: heat conduction If you cannot take the heat, get a non-conductor
Optional interstitial activity [Can occur at any point in term]
072 Laboratory seven: Changes in latitude, longitude, and the metric system Walking the line - of latitude [T]
081 Relative humidity and precipitation
082 Laboratory eight: Clouds The stuff of which dreams are made
092 Laboratory nine: Sound. Mach one: the speed of sound
102 Laboratory ten: reflection and refraction Mirror, mirror on the wall
111 Activity includes playing with a cereal box spectrometer, colors of the rainbow
112 Laboratory eleven: colors of light Somewhere over the rainbow [T]
121 Magnetism, magnetic fields, and iron filings
122 Laboratory twelve: Circuits, conduction, and Ohm's law Let your light bulb shine
131 Introduction to periodic table, chemical symbology
132 Laboratory thirteen: Flower colors, acids, and bases: Chemistry from the flower garden in the kitchen
Chemicals print out sheets for use in lab
One minute celestial objects presentations
Monday-Wednesday video: Stephen Hawking and the theory of everything
142 Laboratory 14: Final practical fall 2007: Angle of reflection
142 Laboratory 14: Final practical spring 2008: Image depth
142 Laboratory 14: Final practical fall 2008: Magnification
142 Laboratory 14: Final practical spring 2009: Index of refraction of glass from image depth
142 Laboratory 14 :Final practical fall 2009: Index of refraction of glass from image depth
Cosmology
MITC DVD 393: Stephen Hawking and the theory of everything. Join Hawking and other renowned thinkers as they explore the revolutionary new ideas that have evolved since the publication of his blockbuster book. Besides interviews, this stimulating documentary uses computer graphics and simple, easy-to-understand demonstrations to explain complex concepts. Topics include black holes, string theory, super symmetry, dimensions beyond our perception, and the mysterious M force - all potential keys to unlocking the elusive "theory of everything" that seems so tantalizingly close.
152 Laboratory fifteen: Site swap notation Keeping three too-many balls up in the air
Sample final fall 2009. Questions will vary.
Significant digits in the soap box volume laboratory • pdf
Stopwatch operation • stopwatch diagram
Ball arc activity • .plt • blank
Ball arc as activity two spring 2008
Using statistical modes on a Sharp EL-531W calculator
SVG graph and relationship analysis decision tree
OpenOffice Calc file for building xhtml5 pages with SVG xy scatter graph
Center of gravity and cantilevers • cantilever.ods
Fall 2008: An increasing number of files are in XHTML5 + SVG + MathMl format. These files can be rendered by FireFox, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari. No Microsoft product will properly render any of these files. Other files are in OpenDocument formats and were created using OpenOffice.org. A few are Gnuplot plot files. Other formats such as Excel and portable network graphic files are present as well.
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.odg OpenOffice.org Draw
.ods OpenOffice.org Calc
.odt OpenOffice.org Writer
.pdf Adobe Acrobat Portable Document File
.plt Gnuplot 4.0 file. Edit with text editor, open with Gnuplot
.png Portable Network Graphic
.wxm Maxima wxMaxima 5.12 file
.xhtml XHTML5 + MathMl + SVG
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