This is the organizational page for the Physics Introductory Labs PHY 124 for Spring 2017.

Instructors	Director of UG Laboratory	Teaching Assistants
R. Lefferts	B. Nielsen	Zhenyue Chen    zhenyue.chen@stonybrook.edu Peter Jones    peter.jones@stonybrook.edu Shilin Liu    shilin.liu@stonybrook.edu Youngshin Kim    youngshin.kim.1@stonybrook.edu Sahand Seifnashri    sahand.seifnashri@stonybrook.edu Yue Wang    yue.wang.4@stonybrook.edu Farid Salazar Wong    farid.salazarwong@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. Each experiment will come with a manual that you can access from this webpage.
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 Reports.

Your performance/report will count 100%, of which the introduction is worth up to 10%, toward your grade on the particular lab experiment.
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:

Title sheet

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

Introduction                [10 pts]

In your own words: briefly describe the experiment, DO NOT copy the lab manual

Describe how to perform the experiment with a short sketch and text

Procedure                   [20 pts]

Describe briefly what you have done during the session

Data sheet                   [20 pts]

Include data taken which has been analyzed, clear and neat

Have your TA signed your data sheet before you leave the lab

Analysis/Discussion  [40 pts]

Graphs, calculations, uncertainty estimates

Conclusion                  [10 pts]

Brief summary of results: physics implied by the data

Any caveats or comments

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     Σ                    [100 pts]

IMPORTANT: You have to submit your first lab report 48 hours after your lab experiment finished. Please refer to your Teaching Assistant for details. For and after your second experiment you have to submit your lab report the latest at the beginning of the next lab session following the experiment performed.

Penalties for late submission

Any lab report submitted after that deadline will not be considered and receive zero points for the 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 20%. This grade will be included in the grade of the mother-course and you receive a combined grade for PHY122 and PHY124 which will be the same for both courses.

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. You have to arrange with your teaching assistant for a make-up session.
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 23.

For grading policy and methods please see above.

The [UPDATE MARCH 21, 2017] sequence of Labs in PHY 124 is the following:

Lab 0: January 23 - January 27 Introduction to the laboratory and Uncertainty, Error & Graphs.

Lab 1: January 30 - February 03 The Electric Field

Lab 2: February 06 - February 10 The Oscilloscope

Lab 3: February 13 - February 17 DC Circuits

February 20-24: Make-up Lab Week for Labs 1 - 3. No lab classes.

Lab 4: February 27 - March 03 Magnetic Force 1

Lab 5: March 06 - March 10 Magnetic Field/Induction

March 13 - 17: SPRING BREAK. No lab classes.

Lab 6: March 20 - March 24 AC circuits

March 27 - March 31: Make-up Lab Week for Labs 4 - 6. No lab classes.

Lab 7: April 03 - 07: Optics

Lab 8: April 10 - April 14 Interference and Diffraction

Lab 9: April 17 - April 21 Charge-to-Mass Ratio (e/m) of the Electron or Atomic Spectra

Lab 10: April 24 - April 28 Atomic Spectra or Charge-to-Mass Ratio (e/m) of the Electron

May 01 - 05: Make-up Lab Week for Labs 8 - 10.

LABORATORY SCHEDULE & TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

Updated January 22, 2017

Section	When	Where	Teaching Assistant
PHY124 L01	Mo 12:00pm - 1:50pm	A-120	Zhenyue Chen
PHY124 L02	Mo 12:00pm - 1:50pm	A-118	Youngshin Kim
PHY124 L03	Mo 2:30pm-4:20pm	A-120	Zhenyue Chen
PHY124 L04	Mo 2:30pm-4:20pm	A-118	Youngshin Kim
PHY124 L05	Mo 4:30pm-6:20pm	A-120	Sahand Seifnashri
PHY124 L07	Tu 6:00pm - 7:50pm	A-120	Peter Jones
PHY124 L08	Tu 6:00pm - 7:50pm	A-118	Shilin Liu
PHY124 L09	Tu 1:00pm - 2:50pm	A-120	Sahand Seifnashri
PHY124 L10	Tu 1:00pm - 2:50pm	A-118	Farid Salazar Wong
PHY124 L11	We 2:30pm - 4:20pm	A-120	Farid Salazar Wong
PHY124 L12	We 2:30pm - 4:20pm	A-118	Yue Wang
PHY124 L13	We 6:00pm - 7:50pm	A-120	Peter Jones
PHY124 L14	We 6:00pm - 7:50pm	A-118	Shilin Liu
PHY124 L15	Th 1:00pm - 2:50pm	A-120	Richard Lefferts
PHY124 L16	Th 1:00pm - 2:50pm	A-118	Yue Wang

Please report any problem to either your corresponding lab instructor or Mr. Lefferts.