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.