Summer Session 2024 – Equipment and Materials
Chemistry 122:
The labs are designed to be completed at home without access to the resources of a school. A scale for measuring mass and a thermometer are used in multiple labs and students will have to acquire both. There is an inexpensive scale ($20) available on Amazon: Digital Scale. There is also an inexpensive thermometer ($20) available on Amazon: Digital Thermometer.
All other materials are listed by laboratory:
| Specific Heat Capacity Lab: 600mL beaker / pot for heating waterstyrofoam cup OR coffee mugthermometerscale2 metal objects (iron nail, aluminum foil, copper wire, …) | Alka-Seltzer Lab: small beaker or cupthermometerscale10 tablets of Alka-Seltzer mortar and pestle (or something with which to grind tablets)food coloring OR 2 glow sticks. |
| Spontaneity Lab: package of matchesdeck of cards10 coins | Isomer Models Lab: package of toothpicksbag of mini-marshmallows |
| Milk to Plastic Lab: 600mL beaker / pot for heating milk250mL (1 cup) of milk 20 ml of vinegar |
Summer Session 2024 – Equipment and Materials
Physics 122:
The labs are designed to be completed at home without access to the resources of a school. A stopwatch and meter stick. A few labs make use of interactive online simulator activities.
All other materials are listed by laboratory:
| Ramp Forces and Motion Lab: 2 wooden rulers2 rubber erasers2 sticks of chewing gum1 coin1 paper clipbooks | Equilibrium Lab: online interactive simulator (link in the lab instructions) |
| Horizontal Projectile Lab: small steel ball or marble plastic ruler with groove in the center or a book carbon paper meter stick masking tape stopwatch | Gravity Force Lab: online interactive simulator (link in the lab instructions) |