Review for PSC 111 Final

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Review for PSC 111 Final
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Lab 1 Math Review

• Concepts
• Significant figures
• 0.0061 2 significant figures
• 0.00610 3 significant figures
• 610 2 significant figures
• 610.0 4 significant figures
• Scientific notation
• 1.4x10-3 0.0014
• 1.4x103 1400

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Lab 2 Distance and Mass

• Conversion from any units of mass, time or length
  into another
• Meters to cm
• Grams to kg
• Etc.
• Calculating percent error
• (measured value expected value)/expected value
  X 100

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Lab 3 Density

• Use a vernier
• Calculate volume of definite shapes
• Cylinder
• Cube base3
• Sphere
• rectangular prism base X width X height
• Determine the density
• mass / volume

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Lab 4 Acceleration Due to Gravity

• Calculate average velocities
• Calculate acceleration from velocities
• Calculate speed based on initial speed and
  acceleration
• Graph velocity vs time

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Lab 5 Study of Sea Water

• Calculate percent of total dissolved solid (TDS)
  from mass of residue

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Lab 6 Latent Heat of Fusion

• Determine the latent heat of fusion of ice by
  using conservation of energy
• Heat lost by of water HwmwcwDT
• Heat to raise temperature of water-ice
  HwimwicwTf
• Heat to melt ice HimihiT
• HwHiHwi

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Lab 7 Caloric Content of Nuts

• Determine the quantity of energy available in
  food
• energy from the burning of the food is used up to
  warm up water HwmwcwDT
• Caloric content is measured in joules/gram
• energy / (mass of peanut-mass residue)

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Lab 7 Harmonic Oscillator

• Plot the period of a harmonic oscillator based on
  the mass hanging from the spring

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Lab 8 Pendulums

• Graph period as a function of length
• Determine the period of a pendulum based on a
  graph showing period as a function of length

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Lab 9 and Lab 12 Electrical Circuit

• Circuits with light bulbs connected in parallel
  shine as much as if they were connected
  individually to the battery.
• Circuits with light bulbs connected in series
  will stop shining if one of them is unscrewed.
• A circuit with light bulbs connected in parallel
  will drain the battery faster (higher current)
  than with light bulbs connected in series.

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Lab 10 Lenses

• The position where the image of an object will be
  formed depend on the focal length of the lens and
  the relative positions of the object and the lens
• The magnification of a telescope depends on the
  ratio of the focal length of the objective and of
  the eyepiece Mfo/fe

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Lab 13 Spectroscopy

• Know how to calculate the RMS
• Know how to read the vernier of the spectroscope.

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Lab 14 the Celestial Sphere

• Know how the position of the sun in the sky
  changes with the seasons
• Highest at noon in the summer
• Lowest at noon in the winter
• Understand how how RA and DEC are measured on the
  celestial sphere.
• RA from 0h to 24h, equivalent to longitude
• DEC from -90 through 0 to 90, equivalent to
  latitude

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Lab 15 Revolution of the Moons of Jupiter

• Know how to calculate the mass of a planet based
  on the orbital period and distance of one of its
  satellite.
• Ma3/T2
• a needs to be in AUs and T in years