List of Physics Laboratory

Apparatus and Their Uses

Meter Scale
A meter scale is one of the most significant and simplistic measuring
devices that is used for measuring length in a physics lab.

Vernier Calliper
Vernier calliper is an amazing measurement tool that can measure length
accurately up to 1/10th or 1/100th of a millimetre.

Screw Gauze
Screw Gauze, also known as a micrometer screw gauze, is a P-shaped
device in a physics lab that is calibrated to measure the thickness of sheets
and the diameter of wires or spherical objects with extremely high accuracy.

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Protractor
In physics and mathematics, a protractor is an instrument used to measure
angles.

Stopwatch
A laboratory stopwatch is used to measure the time intervals or the time
taken by an object for its displacement.

Spring Balance
Spring balance is a device which consists of a hook attached to one end of
the spring and is used for measuring the weights of various objects.

Lenses
Lenses are defined as optical devices which focus or disperse light beams
through the refraction of light.

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Concave
A concave lens is a lens that diverges the beam of light which has been
passed through it. It is characterized by inside curved lenses either on both
or one side of the lens. The images formed from concave lenses are sharp,
upright, diminished, and virtual.

Convex
Convex lenses are the type of lenses that converges the ray of light to form
sharp images of the object. Convex lenses are thicker at the center and thin
at the edges.

Prism
A prism is a triangular, 3-dimensional piece of glass or transparent material
which is used in a physics laboratory for analyzing and studying the
concepts of refraction.

Mirror
Mirrors play a vital role in understanding the concepts of reflection of light
and are therefore widely used in physics laboratories. Mirrors can be flat or
spherical.

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Flat mirror
Flat mirrors (plane mirrors) are flat, smooth, and reflective surfaces. They
are the only type of mirrors which produces an image that is virtual, upright,
laterally inverted, and of the same size as the object, irrespective of the
shape, size, and distance of an object from the mirror.

Concave mirror
Concave mirrors are converging surfaces that are used widely in
automobiles and motor vehicles headlights, torchlights, head mirrors, solar
furnaces, microscopes, telescopes, railway engines, etc. as reflectors.

Convex mirror
Convex mirrors always form virtual, erect, and diminished images,
irrespective of the position of the object.

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Optical Bench
An optical bench is a long horizontal bench consisting of two iron support
bars, which is used to perform fundamental experiments of optics such as
image formation, reflection, refraction, and more.

Glass slab
A glass slab is a cuboidal-shaped, 3-dimensional material made of glass and
is widely used in physics for pin method experiments and understanding
refraction phenomena. It is also used for providing refractive law and
measuring refractive index.

Rheostats
A rheostat is a variable resistor which is used to control the current by
varying the resistance. It works on the basic principle of Ohm’s law, which
states that the resistance and current are inversely proportional to each other.

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Multimeter
A multimeter is a device that combines several measurement functions in
one unit and can be used to check the conductors, the continuity of the
circuit, measuring the voltage in the socket or the battery level of the car.

Voltmeter
A voltmeter is an instrument that measures the difference in electrical
potential between two points in an electric circuit.

Ammeter
An Ammeter is a measuring instrument used to find the strength of the
current flowing around an electrical circuit when connected in series with
the part of the circuit being measured.