TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. iii
Laboratory Safety Guidelines …………………………………………………………………………………… 1
First Aid and Emergency Measures ………………………………………………………………………….. 2
Policies and Procedures in Borrowing Laboratory Tools & Equipment …………………….. 3
Experiment No. 1
Comparison of the Metric and English Systems ……………………………………………………….. 7
Experiment No. 2
Physical and Chemical Changes in Matter ……………………………………………………………….. 13
Experiment No. 3
Elements, Compounds and Mixtures ……………………………………………………………………….. 17
Experiment No. 4
Hooke’s Law ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 23
Experiment No. 5
Thermal (Linear Expansion) …………………………………………………………………………………….. 29
Experiment No. 6
Specific Heat of Solids ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 35
Experiment No. 7
Boyle’s Law……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 43
Activity No. 1A
Measurement (Conversion of 􀀶nits) ………………………………………………………………………… 51
Activity No. 1B
Physical and Chemical Changes in Matter ……………………………………………………………….. 55
Activity No. 2
Potential and Kinetic Energy ……………………………………………………………………………………. 57
Activity No. 3
Simple Machines ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 63
Activity No. 4
Newton’s 2nd Law …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 67
Activity No. 5
Stress, Strain and Young’s Modulus …………………………………………………………………………… 73
Activity No. 6A
Temperature Scales and Thermal Expansion (Linear) ………………………………………………. 81
Activity No. 6B
Volume Expansion …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 89
Activity No. 7
Specific Heat …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 91
Activity No. 8
Problems on Gas Laws ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 97
References ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 101