Getting Started

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   1.1
   1.2
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   1.5

School Level Experiments

This chapter will discuss the experiments and demonstrations without much data analysis, experiments given in the menu SchoolExpts. Simple tasks like measuring voltage, resistance, capacitance etc. will be done followed by resistances changing with temperature or light. The concept of Alternating Current is introduced by plotting the voltage as a function of time. Generating and digitizing sound will be covered. When an experiment is selected, the corresponding help window will popup, if enabled.

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   2.1
   2.2
   2.3
   2.4
   2.5
   2.6
   2.7
   2.8
   2.9
   2.10
   2.11
   2.12
   2.13
   2.14
   2.15
   2.16
   2.17
   2.18
   2.19
   2.20
   2.21

Electronics

This chapter explains several electronics experiments. Most of them are done using the oscilloscope GUI. Some of them like Diode and Transistor characteristics have a dedicated GUI.

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   3.1
   3.2
   3.3
   3.4
   3.5
   3.6
   3.7
   3.8

Electricity and Magnetism

This section mainly contains experiments on the steady state and transient response of LCR circuit elements. the experimental results with the theory. It also gives an experiment of electromagnetic induction.

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   4.1
   4.2
   4.3
   4.4
   4.5
   4.4
   4.6

Sound

Pressure variations, about an equilibrium pressure, transmitted through a medium is called sound. They are longitudinal waves. Moving a sheet of paper back and forth in air can generate these kind of pressure waves, like the paper cone of a loudspeaker. When the frequency is within 20 to 20000Hz range, we can hear the sound. In this chapter, we will generate sound from electrical signals, detect them using the built-in microphone (a pressure sensor) and study the properties like amplitude and frequency. Velocity of sound is measured by observing the phase shift of digitized sound with distance.

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   5.1

Mechanics

Resonance phenomena is studied using a driven pendulum. Value of acceleration due to gravity is measured using a pendulum.

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   6.1
   6.2
   6.3
   6.4

Other experiments

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   7.1