Virtual and Real Labs for Introductory Physics II

Virtual and Real Labs for Introductory Physics II: Optics, modern physics, and electromagnetism provides the lab component for Introductory Physics II taught in a remote, on-ground, or a hybrid environment with little or no instructor guidance. The book offers the opportunity to realize these purposes by providing virtual and real lab components. The virtual lab primarily uses free publicly available PhTH online simulation packages for topics commonly covered in Introductory Physics II (optics, electricity, magnetism, and modern physics) with two primary purposes: (1) to provide all the lab activities for Asynchronous or Synchronous online learning and (2) to serve as an additional tool for better understanding the on-ground real lab by asking students to do simulation virtual lab before coming to class. The real lab component guides students in performing real lab activities using different modern laboratory kits manufactured by PASCO.

With an individual or combined approach to virtual and real lab activities supplemented by summaries of the basic theory to these topics in each chapter's first section, this book's ultimate purpose is to give students a deeper conceptual understanding of optics, electricity, magnetism, and modern physics.