"The General Physics Laboratory is a two semester sequence offered by the Physics Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. These courses are designed to familiarize the student with the basics of experimental methods and analysis. The topics correspond roughly to those covered in the lecture sequences Physics 151-152 and 170-272. The experiments performed in the first semester are based on topics in mechanics. The second semester covers material in electromagnetism and optics." --preface, page vii.