This is the organizational page for the Physics Introductory Labs PHY 134 for Fall 2018.

Instructors	Director of UG Laboratory	Teaching Assistants
R. Lefferts	B. Nielsen	Xiangdong Li    xiangdong.li@stonybrook.edu Nicholas Mertes    Nicholas.mertes@stonybrook.edu Abraham Teklu    abraham.teklu@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 sheet                   [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 Electric Field Plotting

Lab 2: September 17 - September 21 The Oscilloscope

Lab 3: September 24 - September 28 Capacitors

Lab 4: October 01 - October 05 Ohm's Law

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 Magnetic Force 1

Lab 6: October 22 - October 26 e/m of the Electron

Lab 7: October 29 - November 02 LRC Circuits

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

Lab 8: November 12 - November 16 Resonance

November 19 - 23: THANKSGIVING BREAK: No lab classes.

Lab 9: November 26 - November 30 Optics

Lab 10: December 03 - December 06 Interference

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

To Be Announced

Section	When	Where	Teaching Assistant
PHY134 L01	Mo 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-130	Xiangdong Li
PHY134 L02	Mo 2:30pm-4:50pm	A-130	Abraham Teklu
PHY134 L03	Mo 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-130	Abraham Teklu
PHY134 L04	Tu 12:00pm-2:20pm	A-130	Nicholas Mertes
PHY134 L05	We 5:00pm-7:20pm	A-130	Xiangdong Li
PHY134 L06	We 2:30pm-4:50pm	A-130	Nicholas Mertes

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 PHY134 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 PHY134_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.