LIST OF PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS REQUIRED FOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE

Students are expected to draw, label and describe these over and over again till they can memorise them:

  1. Experiment to determine the volume of a solid by displacement.

  2. Experiment to determine the period of oscillation of a simple pendulum.

  3. Experiment to determine the density of a solid which sinks in a liquid and that of a liquid.

  4. Experiment to plot the load-extension graph for a helical spring within its elastic limit.

  5. Experiment to verify the principle of moments.

  6. Experiment to determine the position of the centre of gravity of a plane lamina.

  7. Experiment to show that pressure at a surface produces a force at right angles to the surface.

  8. Experiment to measure the specific heat capacity of a solid and of a liquid.

  9. Experiment to distinguish between good and bad thermal conductors.

  10. Experiment to illustrate convection in a fluid.

  11. Experiment to distinguish between good and bad emitters of infrared radiation.

  12. Experiment to distinguish between good and bad absorbers of infrared radiation.

  13. Experiment to generate transverse waves through a rope.

  14. Experiment to generate longitudinal waves through a soft helical spring.

  15. Experiment to demonstrate reflection, refraction and diffraction of plane waves in a ripple tank.

  16. Experiment to illustrate the law of reflection.

  17. Experiment to find the position and characteristics of an optical image formed by a plane mirror.

  18. Experiment to show refraction of light through a glass prism.

  19. Experiment to demonstrate total internal refection.

  20. Experiment to show that a material medium is needed to transmit sound.

  21. Experiment to show the reflection of sound waves.

  22. Experiment to determine the speed of sound in air.

  23. Experiment to plot magnetic field patterns using a plotting compass.

  24. Experiment to show electrostatic charging by friction.

  25. Experiment to distinguish between conductors and insulators.

  26. Experiment to determine resistance using a voltmeter and an ammeter.

  27. Experiments to show the force on a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field including the effect of reversing the current and the direction of the field.

  28. Experiment to show that a changing magnetic field can induce an e.m.f in a circuit.

  29. Experiment to demonstrate Lenz’s law.

  30. Geiger-Marsden alpha-scattering experiment.