List of apparatus for B. Sc.

Physics (1st,2nd and 3rd year Labs)*

* Numbers within brackets indicate the total quantity/sets required.

1. Three identical bobs of different materials,

2. Protractor,
3. Strings of varying lengths,
4. Stop watch (12),
5. Metre rod,
6. Clamp stand,
7. Cork pads,
8. Vernier callipers (4),
9. Micrometre (4)
10. Screw gauge (4)
11. Bar pendulum,
12. Metre scale (6),
13. Telescopes (4)
14. A spiral spring,
15. Slotted weights in multiples of 100g, 500g and hangers, (4sets)
16. A laboratory stand and 50 cm scale
17. Torsional pendulum (inertia table),
18. Rigid circular cylinder,
19. Spirit level (4),
20. Physical balance and a weight box (3)
21. Two-in-one pendulum,
22. Heavy bob with a pointer,
23. Inextensible weightless string,
24. Clamps (2).
25. 2-D collision apparatus,
26. Steel balls,
27. Sheet of paper, and carbon paper,
28. Drawing-board and board pins,
29. Plumb line, ruler and protractor
30. Four iron wires of different thicknesses (Alternatively 4 wires of different magnetic materials),
31. Sonometer,
32. An electromagnet with a 6 volt a.c. Transformer,
33. Six tuning forks of known frequencies,
34. Rubber pad,
35. Chemical balance and a weight box.
36. Rectangular steel beam,
37. Two knife-edges,
38. Microscope,
39. Pin,
40. Optical lever,
41. Lamp and scale arrangement,
42. Carey Foster’s bridge,
43. Thick copper strip,
44. Fractional resistance box,
45. Galvanometers sensitive (4)
46. Unknown low resistance
47. Potentiometer preferably with 10 m long wire,

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48. Copper-iron or a copper-constantan thermocouple,
49. Millivoltmeters of different ranges or digital multimeter,
50. Mercury thermometer graduated up to 350°C,
51. Two beakers,
52. Two tripod stands,
53. Two wire gauges,
54. Bunsen burner,
55. Mustard oil or glycerol,
56. Sand paper,
57. Clamp stand,
58. Audio frequency (AF) oscillator,
59. AC milliammeter,
60. AC voltmeter,
61. Multirange Microammeters (0-50µA), (up to 100 µA) (2 each),
62. Zener diode (with breakdown voltage in the range of 3 to 10V),
63. Two multi-range milliammeters (100ma),
64. Two multi-range voltmeters,
65. A BC107 n-p-n transistor (or any other n-p-n transistor) with a socket,
66. Two 2.5 kΩ/2W potentiometers,
67. Transistorised power supply (0 -4 V 2 sets; 0-10 V , 4 sets; 0 -15 V, 4 sets; 0 -30 V 4 sets)
68. Thermo couple (copper – constantan)
69. Thermistor (7 kohm at room temperature)
70. Water bath
71. Oil bath
72. Ice bath
73. Electric hot plate/burner/stove
74. Wire gauze,
75. Stands
76. Galvanometer with head phone
77. Soldering iron
78. Centre-tapped transformer (9V – 0 – 9V)
79. Diodes (IN 4007 or BY126 or BY127)
80. Electrolytic capacitors (1000 µF, 25γ)
81. Inductors (150 mh)
82. Resistors (100Ω, 2Ω)
83. CRO
84. Variable power supply (of 15V and -15V)
85. Opamp (IC 741) – 10 nos.
86. Oscillator (giving sine and square waves of various frequencies)
87. Strong (bar) magnet
88. Search coil (300 turns, dia ~ 3mm)
89. Transistorised power supply (± 12V)
90. Convex lens (focal length ~ 10 - 15 cm) – 4 nos.
91. Concave lens (focal length ~ 10 cm)
92. Lens holders
93. Frosted incandescent bulb (60 W)
94. Plane mirror
95. Student spectrometer
96. Mercury vapour lamp
97. Dense flint glass equilateral prism
98. Reading lens (4), focussing lens

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99. Sodium vapour lamps (2)
100. Travelling microscope (2)
101. Glass plate (1mm or 2 mm thickness)
102. Transmission grating
103. Polariser/Analyser
104. Calcite plates
105. Polaroid eye-pieces
106. Audio frequency oscillator (of low power and variable frequency)
107. Power amplifier (of the kind used for public address system)
108. Thermometer (for room temperature measurement)
109. Generator for carbon-dioxide (acid-marble chip)
110. Horn driver (of the kind used for public address system)
111. Bunsen burner/spirit lamp
112. Thermistor
113. Polarimeter
114. Flask
115. Physical balance
116. Biprism
117. Optical bench with uprights
118. Slits (adjustable reactangular, fine slits)
119. Micrometer eyepiece
120. Metre bridge
121. Galvanometers (6)
122. Voltmeters (different ranges)
123. Rheostats (6)
124. Resistance boxes (different ranges, e.g., 0-10Ω, 0-100Ω, 0-1kΩ, 0-10kΩ, 0-100kΩ)
125. Incandescent lamp
126. One-way tapping keys (12)
127. Jockey (6)
128. Deflection magnetometer
129. Solenoid
130. Compensating coil
131. Iron rod
132. Ammeters (ma range)
133. Anderson bridge unit
134. Two variable inductor boxes (mh range)
135. Capacitors (Electrolytic and boxes) (µF and mf range)
136. Three dial resistance box (units, tens, hundreds)
137. Four dial resistance box (units, tens, hundreds, thousands)
138. Fixed resistors (of the order of 1Ω, 2Ω, 5Ω, 10Ω, 50Ω 100Ω, 1kΩ, 10kΩ, 100kΩ)
139. Instrumentation amplifier
140. Cantilever with fixed strain gauges
141. Slotted weights (50-500 g)
142. BJT (AF audio amplifier)
143. Signal generator
144. Bread board / PCB
145. Diodes (Ge pn junction) (12)
146. Small electric bulb
147. Hall effect apparatus (Electromagnet, electronic millivoltmeter, constant current
Power supply, Hall probe)