This is the organizational page for the Physics Introductory Labs PHY 133 for Fall 2018.

Instructors	Director of UG Laboratory	Teaching Assistants
R. Lefferts	B. Nielsen	Yuan Fang    yuan.fang.3@stonybrook.edu Catherine Feldman    catherine.feldman@stonybrook.edu Artemis Sofia Giannakopoulou    ArtemisSofia.Giannakopoulou@stonybrook.edu Daniel Gift    Daniel.gift@stonybrook.edu Sudhakantha Girmohanta    Sudhakantha.girmohanta@stonybrook.edu Colin Gordon    colin.gordon@stonybrook.edu Xuance Jiang    xuance.jiang@stonybrook.edu Alfonso Lanuza    alfonso.lanuza@stonybrook.edu Jacob Larkin    jacob.larkin@stonybrook.edu Tong Liang    Tong Liang@stonybrook.edu Gaurang Parkar    Gaurang.Parkar@stonybrook.edu Rugved Pund    Rugved.Pund@stonybrook.edu Eli Rafkin    Eli.rafkin@stonybrook.edu Makoto Tsuneto    Makoto.Tsuneto@stonybrook.edu Helena Van Nieuwenhuizen    Helena.VanNieuwenhuizen@stonybrook.edu Aniruddha Venkata    Aniruddha.Venkata@stonybrook.edu Weibin Zhang    Weibin.Zhang@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 2 hr 20 min time to perform each experiment. Each experiment will come with a manual that you can access from this webpage.

You are required to perform each lab experiment by yourself, mostly together with a lab partner.

Your perfomance in the lab session will be evaluated by your teaching assistant. The evaluation is based on the introduction of your lab report that you have to write up and submit to your TA at the beginning of the session and your performance during the experiment that includes a final written report that will be submitted in the week following the lab experiment. Please refer also to Lab Report Guide Your performance/report will count 100%, of which the introduction is worth up to 15%, toward your grade on the particular lab experiment.
Your final grade will be an average from your single lab grades scaled by a factor that will be determined at the end of the semester. This final grade will be a letter grade ranging from A to F.

Your lab report should give the reader a chance to get a picture of the experiment and what you have done without having the lab manual in their hand. You should not copy excerpts from the manual or only refer to passages in the lab manual. The lab report has to have the following format:

1. Title sheet

Name, lab-section, TA name, partner name(s), name of experiment, date

2. Introduction                [15 pts]

In your own words: briefly describe the experiment. Present the main physics intent and the main meaurements of the lab. Please DO NOT copy the lab manual

3. Procedure                   [15 pts]

Describe briefly what you have done during the session

4. Data                    [20 pts]

Include data from the lab (including units) and your estimates of experimental uncertainty.

Include the data sheet your TA signed as an image or appended.

5. Analysis/Discussion  [40 pts]

Graphs, calculations, uncertainty caluclations for derived quantities

6. Conclusion                  [10 pts]

Present the main result of the experiment and summarize the physics implied by the data

Comment on the random and systematic error present in the measurement.

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     Σ           Sum to   [100 pts]
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Here is the schedule of labs for the semester

The first lab sessions will take place in the week starting from Monday, August 27.

Lab 0: August 27 - August 30 Introduction to the laboratory and Uncertainty, Error & Graphs

September 03 -07: LABOR DAY (Monday). No lab classes.

Lab 1: September 10 - September 14 The Pendulum    (Data Sheet)

Lab 2: September 17 - September 21 Projectile Motion    (Data Sheet)

Lab 3: September 24 - September 28 Acceleration    (Data Sheet)

Lab 4: October 01 - October 05 The Atwood Machine    (Data Sheet)

October 08 - 12: Fall Break (Mon & Tues). Make-up Lab Days for Labs 1-4 (Wed-Fri). No lab classes.

Lab 5: October 15 - October 19 Conservation of Energy    (Data Sheet)

Lab 6: October 22 - October 26 Conservation of Momentum    (Data Sheet)

Lab 7: October 29 - November 02 Angular Momentum    (Data Sheet)

November 05 - 09: Make-up Lab Week for Labs 5 - 7. No lab classes.

Lab 8: November 12 - November 16 Standing Waves    (Data Sheet) ** Note schedule change

November 19 - 23: THANKSGIVING BREAK (Starts Wednesday). No lab classes.

Lab 9: November 26 - November 30 Simple Harmonic Motion    (Data Sheet) ** Note schedule change

Lab 10: December 03 - December 06 Ideal Gas Law and Absolute Zero   (Data Sheet)

December 07 and December 10: Make-up Lab DAYS for Labs 8 - 10.

Link to All Data Sheets

Correct as of September 6, 2018

Section	When	Where	Teaching Assistant
PHY133 L01	Mo 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-117	Catherine Feldman
PHY133 L02	Mo 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-126	Helena van Nieuwenhuizen
PHY133 L03	Mo 2:30pm-4:50pm	A-117	Catherine Feldman
PHY133 L04	Mo 2:30pm-4:50pm	A-126	Colin Gordon
PHY133 L05	Mo 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-117	Aniruddha Venkata
PHY133 L06	Mo 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-126	Colin Gordon
PHY133 L07	Tu 8:00am-10:20am	A-117	Yuan Fang
PHY133 L08	Tu 8:00am-10:20am	A-126	Makoto Tsuneto
PHY133 L09	Tu 12:00pm-2:20pm	A-117	Tong Liang
PHY133 L10	Tu 12:00pm-2:20pm	A-126	Alfonso Lanuza
PHY133 L11	Tu 8:00am - 10:20am	A-118	Daniel Gift
PHY133 L12	Tu 12:00 - 2:20pm	A-118	Yuan Fang
PHY133 L13	Tu 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-118	Gaurang Parkar
PHY133 L14	We 2:30pm - 4:50pm	A-126	Artemis Sofia Giannakopoulou
PHY133 L15	Tu 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-117	Weibin Zhang
PHY133 L16	Tu 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-126	Sudhakantha Girmohanta
PHY133 L17	Th 8:00am-10:20am	A-117	Helena van Nieuwenhuizen
PHY133 L18	Th 8:00am-10:20am	A-126	Eli Rafkin
PHY133 L19	We 2:30pm - 4:50pm	A-117	Alfonso Lanuza
PHY133 L20	We 2:30pm - 4:50pm	A-118 *	Jacob Larkin
PHY133 L21	We 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-117	Artemis Sofia Giannakopoulou
PHY133 L22	We 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-126	Xuance Jiang
PHY133 L23	Th 2:30pm - 4:50pm	A-117	Weibin Zhang
PHY133 L24	Th 8:00am-10:20am	A-118	Makoto Tsuneto
PHY133 L25	Th 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-117	Eli Rafkin
PHY133 L26	Th 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-126	Aniruddha Venkata
PHY133 L27	Th 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-118	Rugved Pund
PHY133 L28	Th 2:30pm - 4:50pm	A-126	Rugved Pund
PHY133 L29	We 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-118	Gaurang Parkar
PHY133 L30	Th 2:30pm - 4:50pm	A-118	Jacob Larkin
PHY133 L31	Mo 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-118	Tong Liang
PHY133 L33	Mo 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-118	Sudhakantha Girmohanta
PHY133 L35	Mo 2:30pm - 4:50pm	A-118	Xuance Jiang

* Correct room as of September 19th, 2018

You are responsible for keeping track of deadlines for your lab reports. A list of deadlines (and return dates for work) is available here: Due Dates

Be alert to announcements about changes to this schedule from your TA or via Blackboard.

Any lab report submitted after the deadline will not be considered and receive zero points for the lab experiment.

Exceptions for partial credit may be granted by a TA or the course instructor, with suitably documented reasons.

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 or a written document about jury duty.

With such documentation, you will have the opportunity to make up the lab experiment in the dedicated make-up week. Under such circumstances, please submit a make-up request via the PHY133 Make-Up Request Form

There are three ways to ask questions or report problems:

• To contact your TA, use the e-mail addresses provided at the top of this page. This is the best option for lab-specific questions, such as checking requirements.
• To contact all TAs, use PHY133_lab@stonybrook.edu. This is the best option for general physics questions. If you cannot get in touch with your own TA and have a question on how to do a calculation (or why numbers look weird), this is also a reasonable place to contact.
• For administrative concerns, contact the course instructor, Richard Lefferts, at phy_introlabs@stonybrook.edu or in Office Hours, 1-3pm Thursday in A-129 of Grad Physics. This is the best option if you have a problem with your TA or something of that nature.