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Physics Unit 3B

This document lists 27 physics practical experiments related to mechanics, electricity, and materials. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the safety procedures for each practical, and practicing questions from past exam papers to build skills in solving exam questions. It also provides notes on types of experimental errors, how to minimize errors by repeating measurements and taking averages, definitions of uncertainty, precision, and reliability, and how to calculate absolute and percentage uncertainty.

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Physics Unit 3B

This document lists 27 physics practical experiments related to mechanics, electricity, and materials. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the safety procedures for each practical, and practicing questions from past exam papers to build skills in solving exam questions. It also provides notes on types of experimental errors, how to minimize errors by repeating measurements and taking averages, definitions of uncertainty, precision, and reliability, and how to calculate absolute and percentage uncertainty.

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Here are the practicals which u need to have a

knowledge of in order to solve the paper:

Practical 1: determination of speed and acceleration


Practical 2: water path in gravity
Practical 3: Centre of gravity
Practical 4: the effect of force on the acceleration of an
object
Practical 5: Acceleration and force using a linear air track
Practical 6: Measurement of the acceleration due to gravity
Practical 7: Estimates of the weight of objects
Practical 8: Potential and kinetic energy
Practical 9: Power of an electric motor
Practical 10: force-extension experiment
Practical 11: measurement of the young modulus
practical 12: Measurement of the young modulus (accurate
method)
Practical 13: Melde's experiment (vibration generator)
Practical 14: The sonometer
Practical 15: Refractive index measurement
Practical 16: Stress concentrations investigations - polarized
lights
Practical 17: Current and voltage in series and parallel
circuits
Practical 18: Ohmmeter and the total resistance of circuits
Practical 19: Efficiency of an electric motor
Practical 20: The variation of current with applied voltage
Practical 21: Resistivity of metal wires and polythene
Practical 22: potential along a wire
Practical 23: Internal resistance of cells - potentiometer
method
Practical 24: Emf and internal resistance of a cell - voltmeter
and ammeter
Practical 25: Temperature coefficient of resistance
Practical 26: The resistance of a thermistor
Practical 27: Flow of electric charge

According to what my teacher told me that in order to solve


unit 3, u need to build a strong concept base of unit 1 and 2.
And for each of the practical mention above u need to know
the "safety" for each practical and practice questions from
sample assessment and all the questions papers of June and
Jan papers.

Here are some notes to be noted and can be used while


answering questions:

during an experiment there can be three kind of errors:


1. personal ----> may be due to carelessness
2. Systematic ----> may be due to fault in apparatus
3. Random ---> maybe due to invisible unseen causes

to minimize error ----> 1. repeat it again 2. take average

what is uncertainty?
fault in the apparatus due to limitation of apparatus

limitation of apparatus = least count/ precision

reliable ---> less error


Precise ---> small value

less reliable ---> more precise >>> reason: because its


difficult to take small measurement!

absolute uncertainty = least count = maximum value of


uncertainty

greater than least count ---> personal error

percentage uncertainty = least count/measurement*100

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