This is the organizational page for the Physics Introductory Labs PHY 134 for Fall 2019.

Instructors	Director of UG Laboratory	Teaching Assistants
R. Lefferts	B. Nielsen	To Be Announced    E-mail of TBA

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 Manuals and Course Schedule 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 pre-lab quiz is worth 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 will be graded as follows:

1. Pre-Lab Quiz (15 pts): Posted to Blackboard. To be submitted before the beginning of the relevant lab.
2. Structure (15 pts): Consists of the following sections of your report:
   • Introduction: A short overview of the experiment
   • Results: Outline what you get (plots, key calculated quantities, etc.).
   • Conclusion: Key insights of the experiment and caveats thereof
3. Data table (10 pts): A reasonably-formatted copy of the data you took in lab (along with calculated quantities, as relevant).
4. Analysis (60 pts): Varies, consists of the following components:
   • Graphs (see the PHY133/134 Plotting Tool)
   • Calculations, including uncertainty propagation (relevant work shown)
   • Discussion: Various other subsections of your report, which will vary from lab to lab

For more details, see the Guide to Lab Reports.

Here is the schedule of labs for the semester:

The first lab sessions will take place in the week starting from Monday, August 26.

• Lab 0 (August 26 - August 30): Expectations and Error Analysis

September 02: Labor Day. No classes.

• Lab 0 (September 03 - September 06): Expectations and Error Analysis
• Lab 1 (September 09 - September 13): Electric Field Plotting    (Data Sheet)
• Lab 2 (September 16 - September 20): The Oscilloscope    (Data Sheet)
• Lab 3 (September 23 - September 27): Capacitors    (Data Sheet)    Supplemental Wiring Diagrams
  
• Lab 4 (September 30 - October 04): Ohm's Law    (Data Sheet)

October 07 - October 11: Make-up Lab Week for Labs 1 - 4. No lab classes.

October 14 - October 15: Fall Break. No classes.

• Lab 5 (October 16-17, 21-22): Magnetic Force     (Mag Force Data)
• Lab 6 (October 23-24, 28-29): e/m of the Electron (e/m Data)
• Lab 7 (October 30-31, November 4-5): Inductors    (Data Sheet)

November 06 - November 07: Make-up Lab Days for Labs 5 - 7. No lab classes.

• Lab 8 (November 11 - November 14): Resonance    (Data Sheet)
• Lab 9 (November 18 - November 21): Optics    (Data Sheet)

November 25 - November 26: Make-up Lab Days for Labs 5 - 9. No lab classes.

November 27 - December 01: Thanksgiving Break. No classes.

• Lab 10 (December 02 - December 05): Interference    (Data Sheet)

December 09: Make-up Lab Day for Labs 7 - 10.

Folder of All Data Sheets

Here are some documents you may find helpful:

Guide to Lab Reports

Guide to Uncertainty and Error Analysis (Quick Reference)

Introduction to Google Sheets

Guide to Making and Using Plots

Here is a link to the plotting tool we will use to make our graphs in this class:

PHY133/134 Plotting Tool

Assignments to be announced

Section	When	Where	Teaching Assistant
PHY134 L01	Mo 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-130	TBA
PHY134 L02	Mo 2:30pm-4:50pm	A-130
PHY134 L03	Mo 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-130
PHY134 L04	Tu 12:00pm-2:20pm	A-130
PHY134 L05	We 5:00pm-7:20pm	A-130
PHY134 L06	We 2:30pm-4:50pm	A-130
PHY134 L07	Th 5:00pm-7:20pm	A-130	TBA
PHY134 L08	Th 2:30pm-4:50pm	A-130	TBA

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.