List
of Equipment for the Low-Cost category of the AAPT Apparatus
Competition
Commonly-available
equipment in physics labs
(cost of this equipment not counted toward the $65 limit on equipment)
- computers (without any specialized
hardware or cables)
- electronic balance (with 1 gram
resolution)
- ringstands
- clamps
- meter sticks
- bunsen burner
- compressed air
- generic glassware (beakers, test
tubes, flasks, stirring rods)
Example of equipment
whose cost must be included in the cost of the apparatus
- professionally
machined parts
- computer
interfaces
- graphing
calculators
- voltmeters,
ammeters
- digital
multimeters
- liquid
nitrogen (take the cost of a liter of LN2 to be $1)
- DC
power supplies
- oscilloscopes
- with
salvaged parts, one need only include the price paid for the salvaged
article