This is the organizational page for the Physics Introductory Labs PHY 124 for Spring 2016.

Instructors	Director of UG Laboratory	Teaching Assistants
K. Dehmelt	B. Nielsen	Julio Moreno Virrueta (juliocesar.morenovirrueta@stonybrook.edu),
klaus.dehmelt@stonybrook.edu	bent.nielsen@stonybrook.edu	Dongwon Han (dongwon.han@stonybrook.edu),
		Yanzhu Chen (yanzhu.chen@stonybrook.edu),
		Joonhyuk Kwon (joonhyuk.kwon@stonybrook.edu),
		Jun-Sik Yoo (jun-sik.yoo@stonybrook.edu),
		Michael Cochran (michael.cochran@stonybrook.edu),
		Behrad Taghavizanjani (behrad.taghavizanjani@stonybrook.edu),
		Irina Petrushina (irina.petrushina@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, May 05 at 11:59 PM). The lab preparation exercise will not be graded per se. Please familiarize yourself with Maple T.A. syntax
Note: this page will guide you to the PHY123 Maple T.A. page, however, the Maple T.A. syntax is the same. 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.
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 part of you mothercourse's grade weighted with 25%. Students who will miss two or more labs without excuse will fail the PHY122 course.

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 thae opportunity to make up the lab experiment in the dedicated make-up week. You have to arrange with your teaching assistant for a make-up sessiion.
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, January 25.

The sequence of Labs in PHY 124 is the following:

Lab 0: January 25 - 28 Introduction to the laboratory and Uncertainty, Error & Graphs

Lab 1: February 01 - 04, 2016 The Oscilloscope

Lab 2: February 08 - 11, 2016 The Electric Field

Lab 3: February 15 - 18, 2016 DC Circuits

Midterm Exam week, NO LAB: February 22 - 25, 2016 Make-up labs 1 - 3.

Lab 4: February 29 - March 03, 2016 Magnetic Force 1

Lab 5: March 07 - 10, 2016 Note the following arrangement:

     Sections in Room A118      Magnetic Field/Induction

     Sections in Room A120      Charge-to-Mass Ratio (e/m) of the Electron

Spring Break, NO LAB: March 14 - 18, 2016

Lab 6: March 21 - 24, 2016 Note the following arrangement:

     Sections in Room A118      Charge-to-Mass Ratio (e/m) of the Electron

     Sections in Room A120      Magnetic Field/Induction

Lab 7: March 28 - 31, 2016 AC circuits

Midterm Exam week, NO LAB: April 04 - 07, 2016 Make-up labs 4 - 7.

Lab 8: April 11 - 14, 2016 Optics

Lab 9: April 18 - 21, 2016 Interference and Diffraction

Lab 10: April 25 - 28, 2016 Atomic Spectra

Last week of classes, NO NEW LABS: May 02 - 06, 2016 Make-up labs 8 - 10.

LABORATORY SCHEDULE & TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

Please read the following list carefully: some times might not be in order with lab sections!

Lab Sec.	When	Where	Teaching Assistant
L01	Mo 12:00PM - 1:50PM	PHYSICS A120	Julio Moreno Virrueta
L02	Mo 12:00PM - 1:50PM	PHYSICS A118	Dongwon Han
L03	Mo 2:30PM - 4:20PM	PHYSICS A120	Yanzhu Chen
L04	Mo 2:30PM - 4:20PM	PHYSICS A118	Julio Moreno Virrueta
L05	Mo 4:30PM - 6:20PM	PHYSICS A120	Joonhyuk Kwon
L06	Mo 4:30PM - 6:20PM	PHYSICS A118	Jun-Sik Yoo
L07	Tu 6:00PM - 7:50PM	PHYSICS A120	Michael Cochran
L08	Tu 6:00PM - 7:50PM	PHYSICS A118	Behrad Taghavizanjani
L09	Tu 1:00PM - 2:50PM	PHYSICS A120	Behrad Taghavizanjani
L10	Tu 1:00PM - 2:50PM	PHYSICS A118	Irina Petrushina
L11	We 2:30PM - 4:20PM	PHYSICS A120	Dongwon Han
L12	We 2:30PM - 4:20PM	PHYSICS A118	Yanzhu Chen
L13	We 6:00PM - 7:50PM	PHYSICS A120	Jun-Sik Yoo
L14	We 6:00PM - 7:50PM	PHYSICS A118	Joonhyuk Kwon
L15	Th 1:00PM - 2:50PM	PHYSICS A120	Michael Cochran
L16	Th 1:00PM - 2:50PM	PHYSICS A118	Irina Petrushina

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