This is the organizational page for the Physics Introductory Labs PHY 124 for Fall 2015.

Instructors	Director of UG Laboratory	Teaching Assistants
K. Dehmelt	B. Nielsen	Jun-Sik Yoo, Peter Jones, Joonhyuk Kwon,
klaus.dehmelt@stonybrook.edu	bent.nielsen@stonybrook.edu	Michael Cochran
A. Deshpande (Principal)
abhay.deshpande@stonybrook.edu

The scope of the introductory labs is to give an understanding of basic experimental methods applied in physical sciences. The experiments performed during the lab sessions are closely related to the topics covered in the lecture.

You will perform each week an experiment as indicated in the Calendar section. You have 1 hr 50 min time to perform each experiment. This time includes finalizing your report for the session that you will have to submit to your teaching assistant at the end of the session.
Your perfomance in the lab session will be evaluated by your teaching assistant. The evaluation is based on an interview that will be conducted in form of a quiz at the beginning of the session and your performance during the experiment that includes a final report to be submitted at the end of the session.
Each week before your lab you should complete a lab preparation exercise (Maple T.A.) that you will find on the Blackboard area for your PHY 124-L## lab section under Assignments. The assignment will typically go “live” Thursday (around 1:15 pm) of the week before the lab for which it is the pretest. Note that the assignment will be available to you until the end of M_F classes (Friday December 04 at 11:59 PM). The lab preparation exercise will not be graded per se. Please familiarize yourself with Maple T.A. syntax (from PHY123).
You will also be interviewed by the TA in form of a quiz when you come in to the Lab. The interview will determine how well you are prepared for that particular experiment which is very important for the successful accomplishment of the experiment. The interview will count 20% toward your grade on the particular lab experiment.
Your performance/report will count 80% toward your grade on the particular lab experiment.

You are required to perform each lab experiment by yourself, mostly together with a lab partner.
If you need to be absent for a lab experiment you will have to provide written documentation for a significant reason to be absent, e.g., a medical note from your doctor, a written document about jury duty, and similar. You will then have the opportunity to make up the lab experiment in the dedicated make-up week.
If you are absent for a non-excusable reason your lab grade for that particular experiment will be Zero (0) points!

The first lab sessions will take place in the week starting from Monday, August 31.

For grading policy and methods please refer to:

Please refresh your understanding of Uncertainty, Error & Graphs

The sequence of Labs in PHY 124 is the following:

Lab 1: August 31 - September 3, 2015 The Oscilloscope

Holiday week (Labor Day), NO LAB: September 7 - 10, 2015

Lab 2: September 14 - 17, 2015 The Electric Field

Lab 3: September 21 - 24, 2015 DC Circuits

Lab 4: September 28 - October 1, 2015 e/m of the Electron

Midterm Exam week, NO LAB: October 5 - 8, 2015  Make-up labs 1 - 4.

Lab 5: October 12 - 15, 2015 The Magnetic Field/Induction

Lab 6: October 19 - 22, 2015 AC Circuits

Lab 7: October 26 - 29, 2015 Optics

Midterm Exam week, NO LAB: November 2 - 5, 2015  Make-up labs 5 - 7.

Lab 8: November 9 - 12, 2015 Interference and Diffraction

Lab 9: November 16 - 19, 2015 Atomic Spectra

Holiday week (Thanksgiving), NO LAB: November 23-26, 2015

November 30 - December 3, 2015:  Make-up labs 8 - 9.

LABORATORY SCHEDULE & TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

Lab Sec.	When	Where	Teaching Assistant
L01	Mon 1:00PM -2:50PM	PHYSICS A120	Michael Cochran
L02	Mon 4:00PM -5:50PM	PHYSICS A120	Peter Jones
L03	Mon 6:30PM-8:20PM	PHYSICS A120	Michael Cochran
L04	Wed 6:30PM-8:20PM	PHYSICS A120	Peter Jones
L05	Tue 1:00PM-2:50PM	PHYSICS A120	Jun-Sik Yoo
L06	Tue 6:30PM-8:20PM	PHYSICS A120	Joonhyuk Kwon
L07	Thu 1:00PM-2:50PM	PHYSICS A120	Jun-Sik Yoo
L08	Wed 4:00PM-5:50PM	PHYSICS A120	Joonhyuk Kwon

Please report any problem to either, your corresponding lab instructor, Professor Deshpande, or Professor Dehmelt.