Physics Education - Development of New Labs
Colgate faculty has developed a number of new laboratories for the introductory physics sequence:
Lab on Craters (Write up) -
Published in: J.C. Amato and R.E. Williams, "Crater Formation in the Laboratory:
An Introductory Experiment in Error Analysis," American Journal of Physics
66, 141-3 (1998).
Craterologists:
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Black Box Moment of Inertia (Write up) - Published in: J.C. Amato and R.E. Williams, "A Black-box Moment of Inertia Apparatus," American Journal of Physics 63, 891-4 (1995).
Doppler Effect (Write up)
Black Box Energy
Black Box Oscillations (Entry in the 2002 AAPT Apparatus Competition - won 2nd place!)
Black Box Archimedes (Entry
in the 2002 AAPT Apparatus Competition - won 2nd place!)