Please type the LAST 6 DIGITS of your student ID #: (Note: No spaces, no dashes, no mistakes! If you type your ID wrong, I'm afraid you won't end up getting credit) Due date: Mon Aug 22 before class.
Normally these questions will be submitted online AND you will print out a copy to turn in to your TA (If you fail to turn something in to your TA, you will get no PRELAB credit. Only copies of the online submissions will be accepted.)
PRELAB QUESTIONS: (to be turned in upon arriving at lab)
1. From your own experiences, describe under what conditions you tend to get shocked the most. (For example, when walking over hard wood floors, or carpet? In the summer or winter? In the morning or at night? Does it only happen when touching doorknobs?)
2. Describe the procedure used to remove any net charge from a plastic sample, so that the sample is electrically neutral.
3. Which has the smaller electron affinity:
4. Go to the following link and play around with the computer simulation:
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/simulation-pages/electricity-simulations.htm
Try the simulation called “John Travoltage”. (Move his arm and leg around and see what happens.) After playing with it, describe in your own words what you think is going on.
5. Go to the following link and complete the following survey of E/M concepts. WILL ONLY BE GRADED FOR PARTICIPATION NOT WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE CORRECT. This survey is designed to give us a feel for how much material you know coming into this class. While some of the questions are difficult, we expect that you will be able to answer most of these correctly by the end of semester.
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/EducationIssues/BEMA/
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