AP® Physics Lab Guide

[Electronic Document] This lab guide is intended to provide some assistance and advice on setting up a lab component for the AP Physics B and C courses. It is NOT a set of prescribed labs, nor does it provide step-by-step procedures for students. The purpose is to provide a set of exercises that illustrate laboratory skills that are central to investigations in physics. The guide is written primarily for the new AP teacher who needs some advice on what may be done, often with limited facilities and time, to get lab work into the AP curriculum. The exercises cover many of the phenomena studied in the Physics B and Physics C courses. The lab write-ups offered in the guide discuss the motivation for and theory behind a particular exercise, describe procedures for carrying it out, and suggest ways of analyzing the data. The guide provides an introduction to data analysis and experimental procedure. There is an emphasis on graphical analysis, with some statistical analysis. The size of this file is approximately .5 mb.