As a lecturer at San Jose State University, I had the opportunity to work with students in their introduction to mechanics lab course for Scientists and Engineers: Physics 50 Lab. This is a calculus based course. Through my various years helping the students in this course, I developed the following notes incorporating the background needed for students to perform their corresponding laboratory work during our lab meeting.
As lab coordinator at San Jose State university, I was in charge of updating and improving laboratory activities for the algebra based 2nd semester intro to physics course: Physics 2B. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, a fully online curriculum had to be developed. The following are the laboratory manual activities to the fully online program along with slides giving the theoretical background to these activities. Additionally the version of this course in for Evergreen Valley college is included.