Dec 05, 2025  
2025-2026 Catalog SVC 
    
2025-2026 Catalog SVC

PHYS& 126 - General Physics Lab III


Credits: 1
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 22
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Effectively interpret and communicate experimental results.

Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in PHYS& 136.
Distribution Requirements:
  • Natural Sciences Distribution Requirement

Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Set up a circuit from a circuit schematic.
  2. Correctly articulate the purpose of the lab and how it will be accomplished.  
  3. Demonstrate basic experimental skills in data collection by using appropriate equipment to measure quantities such as current, voltage and resistance.  
  4. Use basic laboratory data analysis techniques, including distinguishing statistical and systematic   errors and representing data graphically.
  5. Effectively interpret and communicate experimental results.

Course Contents
  1. Fields
  2. Current, resistance, voltage, capacitance and inductance.
  3. DC circuits
  4. AC circuits


Instructional Units: 1.5