This note describes three of many uses to which the desk-top computer has been put in the introductory physics laboratory. The three uses involve an ac circuit laboratory, an equipotential mapping experiment, and an N-slit diffraction experiment. Typical desk-top computer-produced theory plots are shown; the student often compares his experimental measurements to theory by plotting his points directly on the computer plot.
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1970
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