Experiments

Mechanical Systems

1. Spring-mass system
2. Eddy-current damping
3. Friction
4. Damped unforced oscillations
5. Damped driven oscillations
6. Coupled oscillators
7. Vibrating structures
8. Chaotic pendulum?
9. Double pendulum?
10. Parametric oscillator?

Electrical Systems

1. Ohm’s law
2. Resistance of a light bulb
3. Make and characterize a capacitor
4. Make and characterize an inductor
5. RLC resonance
6. Solar cells
7. Introduction to operational amplifiers
8. Passive filters
9. A voltage adder
10. Inductance gyrator: how to fake an inductor
11. Chaotic circuits

Optics

1. Fraunhofer Diffraction