About This Lesson

Welcome to Lab Skills, the second lesson in Unit 1: Math Review.

This lesson is designed to review the foundational lab and measurement skills students will use throughout Physics 1. Building confidence with these basics will make it easier to interpret data, work carefully through experiments, and communicate results clearly.

How to Use This Lesson

1. Watch the teaching video
2. Complete the worksheet
3. Check your answers
4. Use the worked video solutions for any problems you want to review step by step

Teaching Video

In this video, I focus on the typical laboratory skills that are necessary to be successful in a Physics 1 course. I discuss commonly seen lab tools, how to write a procedure, how to create a graph of recorded data, and how to analyze the graph to draw conclusions. I also discuss graph linearization and calculating a percent error.

Practice Materials

Use the resources below to practice the concepts from this lesson. Try to complete the worksheet on your own before checking the answer key.

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• Download Worksheet (1.02 Lab Skills)
• Download Answer Key (1.02 Lab Skills)

Worked Solutions

The videos below walk through each worksheet problem step by step.

Problem 1

Problem 2–6

Problem 7–10

Next Step
When you’re ready, continue to 1.03 Vectors.