Physics you can measure at home — motion, forces, and energy, with real data and real error analysis.
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97% Completion RateCourse completion rate
28–30 DaysAverage course completion
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Self-Paced · Final Exam · ACE & NCCRS Recommended
What You'll Learn
A full semester of physics lab — completed at your own pace, with no deadlines or fixed class times.
Learning Outcomes
What You'll Be Able to Do
✓Take precise measurements with virtual laboratory instruments and report them with appropriate units, significant figures, and uncertainty
✓Apply dimensional analysis and the kinematic equations to describe motion in one and two dimensions using experimentally collected data
✓Construct and interpret free-body diagrams and apply Newton’s laws to analyze forces, friction, and motion
✓Test the conservation of mechanical energy and account quantitatively for energy transformations in real systems
✓Analyze oscillatory and wave phenomena, including pendulum motion and acoustic resonance, to extract physical constants
Course Curriculum
Your path through the course
Work through each lesson at your own pace and build your understanding step by step.
✓Apply the principles of fluid statics and basic electric circuits to interpret measured and provided experimental data
✓Perform and analyze various laboratory activities related to physics, including accurate measurement, data collection, and the use of laboratory tools and instrumentation
✓Apply scientific methodology, in all its explicit steps, to solve complex problems that are part of the laboratory activities, and evaluate experimental results to identify sources of error and uncertainty
✓Communicate experimental findings through formal laboratory reporting, presenting data, calculations, and conclusions clearly and accurately
