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General notes for the laboratory course, on preparing and conducting experiments, the preparation of laboratory reports and the presentation of results, the usage of the lab computers, about setting up electrical circuits and information about mechanical measuring tools; introduction/tutorial for the programs MATLAB and ORIGIN.

• Introduction / Translation of German denotations in the instructions
• About the set-up of electric circuits
• Mechanical measuring tools
• About the use of computers
• Hints for the design of presentations
• University flyer "Good Scientific Practice"
• Information about module marking
• Safety precautions and laboratory rules
• Exercises MATLAB and ORIGIN

Keywords: Measurand, measured value, result of measurement, uncertainty, systematic and random errors, histogram, density function, gaussian distribution, probabilities, mean, standard deviation, variance, root mean square error, absolute and relative errors, maximum error, error propagation, accuracy, linear regression, linearization, correlation, errors of weighted means.

• Instructions

Keywords: Anode, cathode, cathode ray tube, electron deflection, deflector plates, trigger, AC/DC coupling, direct voltage, alternating voltage, frequency, radian frequency, period, amplitude, phase, phase difference, peak and effective value of alternating voltages, Lissajous figures, harmonic oscillation, peak and effective values of alternating voltage

• Photo of the set-up components
• Instructions

Keywords: Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, directions of currents and voltages, measurement of currents and voltages, bridge circuits, Wheatstone bridge, strain gauges, internal resistances of ideal and real voltage sources, internal resistances of measuring instruments, range selection for measuring instruments, current-, voltage- and power compensation, specific resistance of tap water.

• Photo part measurement of resitances and bridge circuits
  
• Photo part measurement of specific resistance of tap water
• Instructions

Keywords: Parallel-plate capacitor, charge and discharge curves, RC-elements, measurements of capacitance, capacity of parallel plate capacitor and coaxial cable, measurement of the relative permittivity of PVC, phase shifts, calculation using complex quantities.

• Photo of set-up components
• Instructions

Keywords: Sensor, linearity, time constant, measurement range, resolution, noise, bending rod, strain gauge, force sensor, piezoresistive effect, pressure sensor, manometer, triangulation, laser distance sensor, Hall-effect, angle sensor, semiconductor, doping, pn-junction, barrier layer, fotodiode, spectral response. 

• Photo part force sensor und pressure sensor
• Photo part laser distance sensor
  
• Photo part fotodiode
• Photo of the angle-sensor
• Film about soldering (» Hint)
• Instructions

Keywords: Force, resilience, Hooke’s law, Newton’s axioms, momentum, impulse of force, harmonic oscillation, distance law for forces

• Photo part harmonic oscillation
• Photo part magnetic attraction
•  Photo part impulse of force on an air cushion track
• Instructions

Keywords: Continuous and discrete signals, sampling, resolution, analog/digital conversion, dual numbers, bit, single-ended and differential signal coupling, multiplexing, MATLAB Data Acquisition Toolbox.

• Photo of set-up components
• Instructions

Keywords: Microwaves, analysis of a microwaves transmitter - receiver system, spherical wave, plane wave, dependence on distance, directional characteristic, damping, polar diagram, reflection, refraction, polarization.

• Photo of set-up components
• Instructions

Keywords: Conservation of momentum and energy, energy transfer in collisions, elastic, inelastic, and totally inelastic collisions, central and oblique collisions, scattering angle, laboratory- and centre-of-gravity system, vector algebra with MATLAB.

• Photo part air gun set-up
• Photo part air table
• Instructions

Keywords: Viscosity and kinematic viscosity, Stokes law, falling ball method, capillary viscosimeter, laminar and turbulent flow, pipe flow, Reynolds numbers, continuity equation, Bernoulli's law and Hagen-Poiseuille's law.

• Photo part falling-ball method
• Photo part capillary viscosimeter
• Photo pipe flow 1 / photo pipe flow 2
• Film showing transition laminar / turbulent flow (» Hint)
• Instructions

Keywords: Harmonic oscillator with and without damping, damping constants, eigenfrequencies, forced harmonic oscillations, resonance behaviour, amplitude- and phase measurements, amplitude-, energy- and phase resonance curves, calculation using complex quantities.

• Photo of set-up components
• Instructions

Keywords: Linear systems, Fourier series and Fourier coefficients, amplitude transfer function, amplitude spectrum, frequency response, phase spectrum, sampling theorem, beat, amplitude modulation, Fourier analysis of square-, triangular-, and sawtooth signal, Gibbs phenomenon.

• Photo of set-up components
• Instructions

Keywords: Breaking-off method, bubble pressure method, emergence and form of minimal surfaces, capillary flows, matter transport in fluids, interior pressure of gas bubbles, sensors for force and pressure.

• Photo part breaking-off method
• Film part breaking-off method (» Hint)
• Photo part gas bubble method
• Film part gas bubble method (» Hint)
• Photo part minimal surfaces
• Photo part interior pressure in gas bubbles
• Instructions

Keywords: Translational and rotational motion, principal axis, moment of inertia, frictional effects, coulomb friction, Steiner's theorem.

• Photo of set-up components
• Instructions