Vernier CBL Made Easy - Manual (Page 5)

CBL Made Easy! 1
Overview
CBL Made Easy!
This CBL guidebook is a step-by-step guide to collecting data using the original Calculator-Based
Laboratory (CBL) and a Texas Instruments graphing calculator. It was written in a sequence to be
followed from the purchase of necessary materials, through the setup and data collection procedures, and
on to areas of further interest.
Note: If you are using LabPro

or CBL 2

, stop here! DataMate Handbook, Beyond DataMate, and
LabPro Technical Reference Manual are resources for those interfaces, and can be downloaded from the
Vernier web site.
The flowchart below is, in a nutshell, the entire CBL setup process described in this guidebook. If you
lost everything but this diagram, you would still have the five steps to successfully run experiments with
the CBL.
L oa d the TI-G RA PH LINK s oftware a nd Vern ier
c alculato r prog ram s onto your c om p uter.
O r
L oa d via d isk
D o w n lo a d via In te rn e t
Us e the TI-G R AP H LIN K cable and s oftware to
s en d the Vern ier calcu lato r p rogram s to y our
TI graphing calcu lator.
Us e the TI-G R AP H LIN K cable to send th e
c ollected da ta to the co m pu ter an d view it us ing
Vernie r G raph ical A nalys is s oftwa re.
Co nnect bla ck ca lculator-to-calcu lato r
link cable to the I/O po rt o n the CB L an d
TI graphing calcu lator.
Plug the se ns o r into th e C BL
(CB L-DIN adapte r s ho wn he re
m ay b e neces sary)
Co llec t d ata u s ing the CB L, TI graphing c alcu la tor
a nd s ensor (e .g., tem p era tu re p ro be ).
S te p 1 S te p 2
S te p 3 S te p 4
S te p 5 (op tio n a l)