Online Laboratory: Electricity and Magnetism: Home Experiments and Simulations

Six active hands-on experiments for the second semester introductory physics course in Electricity and Magnetism are supplemented by ten simulation activities, team tasks, and lab report guidelines. The experiments are designed to be conducted independently at home and are based on the Arduino microcontroller and common household parts. The recommended experimental kit is inexpensive and can be broadly used to investigate electric and magnetic fields, and simple circuits. The experiments require some creativity to complete and challenge you to come up with simple designs that solve the problems at hand. This laboratory course works well with an online course with topics covering electric fields, magnetic fields, electric potential, simple circuits, resistor-capacitor circuits, inductors, and design of capacitors and inductors from simple materials.