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PHY 114 Introductions To Physics Practicals

NCE1 levelSciences7 topics

PHY 114 covers 7 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. The theory of practical: students are to be referred to relevant texts e.g. by Nelkon, Okeke,
  2. Armitage, Tyler etc.
  3. Reporting practical
  4. Graphical skills - plotting experimental data, suitable choice of axes and scales; line of best fit
  5. Interpretation and expression of equations in the form of y = mx + c Evaluation of slope and
  6. Experimental errors and their treatment. Use and maintenance of simple measuring instruments
  7. NCE I SECOND SEMESTER

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

The theory of practical: students are to be referred to relevant texts e.g. by Nelkon, Okeke,

The theory of practical in physics introduces the purpose, methods and discipline of laboratory work rather than new physical laws. For examination purposes, you should master why practicals are done, how measurements are taken and recorded, and the basic principles of accuracy, errors, graphing and safe scientific reporting, because these are the foundations of every later experiment.

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