Physics 13A Course Information

Pendulum
Capillary Flow
Laser Attenuation

Laser Safety

How To Do Research
Writing a Good Paper

Curve Fitting with Grace
Grace User's Guide (link to web site)
Viewing PostScript Files

NIST Units Reference
This is a guide to the units we use for measurement. For more detailed descriptions, see Special Publication 330 and Special Publication 811.

Gravity paper
When you read this paper, it may at first appear to you that geophysicists measure acceleration in gallons. Actually, they give the name "Gal" (for Galileo) to 1 cm/s². So 1 mGal = 10^-5 m/s².

Ganley 1985
Cadwell & Boyko 1991
These papers, from the American Journal of Physics, discuss corrections to the first-order treatment of a simple pendulum.