(TI-58/59) Laboratory Physics

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An excerpt from Laboratory Physics 2e, © 1987 by John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0 471 03675 7

PREFACE
        Laboratory Physics is intended to be a laboratory guide for a calculus based introductory physics course taught primarily to science and engineering students. We believe that the laboratory is an important part of such a course and that very often the experiment bridges the gap between the idealized situations presented in the usual physics text and the real world of the laboratory.
        The first six chapters give an introduction to laboratory procedures and instrumentation. How these chapters are used is entirely up to the faculty or staff teaching the course; some of the material may be assigned as reading whereas other topics may be completely left out.
        The first chapter presents some of the objectives of the laboratory and makes suggestions for laboratory operations. The second chapter on errors should be studied in detail and at some time during the first physics course the material should be assigned in a formal manner. The ideas of Chapter 3 on graphing will be applied throughout the experiments and should be referred to at the appropriate time. Chapter 4 includes a very brief description of some important pieces of equipment, and students should read these sections before handling the apparatus involved.
        Chapters 5 and 6 give a general introduction to the use of calculators … in the laboratory as well as some of the principles of digital integrated circuits. This information, usually not found in an introductory laboratory manual, has been included for the benefit of interested instructors and students. A study of these two chapters is not a prerequisite for the experiments in this text.
        The rest of the text presents more than 70 experiments, arranged by topic and not by level of difficulty. This gives the instructor a wide choice depending on interest, equipment available, level of difficulty, and the like. Some of the experiments contain detailed instructions while others are - on purpose - rather vague, leaving the details up to the student. The experiments differ greatly in difficulty as well as in length. …
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CONTENTS
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Chapter 5  CALCULATOR … EXPLORATIONS IN BASIC EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS  111
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        The TI-58 or TI-59 calculator is preprogrammed to calculate …
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Chapter 5
CALCULATOR  … EXPLORATIONS IN BASIC EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS
5.1 Introduction
        The advent of today's affordable … programmable calculators has brought powerful and easy-to-use new tools to the basic physics laboratory. They provide easily accessible alternatives  … for many applications. Far beyond that, however, they make new sorts of exploration possible that were previously quite difficult to implement in basic courses. In this chapter, we will survey some uses of calculators … as laboratory tools, and present a series of experiments where these tools themselves are used as the medium of exploration.
For our purposes, we will assume that you have access to a programmable calculator such as the Texas Instruments TI programmable 59. For TI-59 users, we've made provision for those who have access to a printer that works with the calculator. …
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Far too many programs / examples to list here; ENJOY!

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[Namir]

Thanks! Was able to download the PDF file for the book from the Internet. Looks good and the program listungs are very well documented! They incude very good comments to the left of the keys to be pressed!

Namir

[jeanwilson]

As of today, the link to the archive doesn't work ! May be the archive is closed ?

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