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

Instructors	Director of UG Laboratory	Teaching Assistants
R. Lefferts	B. Nielsen	Chang Ha Choi    ChangHa.Choi@stonybrook.edu Samet Demircan    samet.demircan@stonybrook.edu Yuan Fang    yuan.fang.3@stonybrook.edu Catherine Feldman    Catherine.Feldman@stonybrook.edu Xuance Jiang    Xuance.Jiang@stonybrook.edu Hare Krishna    HareKrishna.HareKrishna@stonybrook.edu Jacob Larkin    Jacob.larkin@stonybrook.edu Nicholas Mertes    Nicholas.mertes@stonybrook.edu Jonathan Pachter    Jonathan.Pachter@stonybrook.edu Yidi Qi    Yidi.Qi@stonybrook.edu Eli Rafkin    Eli.rafkin@stonybrook.edu Makoto Tsuneto    Makoto.Tsuneto@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 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, January 28.

• Lab 0 (January 28 - January 31): Introduction to the laboratory and Uncertainty, Error & Graphs
• Lab 1 (February 04 - February 07): Electric Field Plotting    (Data Sheet)
• Lab 2 (February 11 - February 14): The Oscilloscope    (Data Sheet)
• Lab 3 (February 18 - February 21): Capacitors    (Data Sheet)    Supplemental Wiring Diagrams
  

February 25 - March 01: Make-up Lab Week for Labs 1 - 3. No lab classes.

• Lab 4 (March 04 - March 07): Ohm's Law    (Data Sheet)
• Lab 5 (March 11 - March 14): Magnetic Force 1 Rooms A-116 and A-119 or e/m of the Electron Room A-130

                        Data Sheets for (Mag Force I Data) and (e/m Data)
March 18 - March 22: Spring Break. No lab classes.

• Lab 6 (March 25 - March 28): e/m of the Electron Rooms A-116 and A-119 or Magnetic Force 1 Room A-130

                        Data Sheets for (e/m Data) and (Mag Force I Data)
April 01 - April 05: Make-up Lab Week for Labs 4 - 6. No lab classes.

• Lab 7 (April 08 - April 11): Inductors    (Data Sheet) New Manual and Name!
• Lab 8 (April 15 - April 18): Resonance    (Data Sheet) New Manual (and Data Sheet link fixed)!
• Lab 9 (April 22 - April 25): Optics    (Data Sheet)
• Lab 10 (April 29 - May 02): Interference    (Data Sheet)

May 06 - May 10: Make-up Lab Week for Labs 7 - 10.

Folder of All Data Sheets

Section	When	Where	Teaching Assistant
PHY134 L01	Mo 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-116	Makoto Tsuneto
PHY134 L02	Mo 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-130	Yuan Fang
PHY134 L03	Mo 2:30pm-4:50pm	A-116	Jacob Larkin
PHY134 L04	Mo 2:30pm-4:50pm	A-130	Yuan Fang
PHY134 L05	Mo 5:00pm-7:20pm	A-116	Makoto Tsuneto
PHY134 L06	Mo 5:00pm-7:20pm	A-130	Hare Krishna
PHY134 L07	Tu 12:00-2:20pm	A-116	Jacob Larkin
PHY134 L08	Tu 12:00-2:20pm	A-130	Chang Ha Choi
PHY134 L09	Tu 8:00am-10:20am	A-119	Samet Demircan
PHY134 L10	Th 8:00am-10:20am	A-119	Samet Demircan
PHY134 L11	We 2:30pm - 4:50pm	A-116	Nicholas Mertes
PHY134 L12	We 2:30pm - 4:50pm	A-130	Chang Ha Choi
PHY134 L13	We 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-116	Catherine F
PHY134 L14	We 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-130	Hare Krishna
PHY134 L15	Th 12:00 - 2:20pm	A-116	Jonathan Pachter
PHY134 L16	Th 12:00 - 2:20pm	A-130	Yidi Qi
PHY134 L22	Tu 8:00am - 10:20am	A-130	Eli Rafkin
PHY134 L23	Th 8:00am - 10:20am	A-116	Eli Rafkin
PHY134 L24	Th 8:00am-10:20am	A-130	Nicholas Mertes
PHY134 L25	Mo 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-119	Yidi Qi
PHY134 L26	Mo 2:30pm - 4:50pm	A-119	Weibin Zhang
PHY134 L27	Mo 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-119	Xuance Jiang
PHY134 L28	Tu 12:00 - 2:20pm	A-119	Jonathan Pachter
PHY134 L29	We 2:30pm - 4:50pm	A-119	Catherine F
PHY134 L30	We 5:00pm - 7:20pm	A-119	Xuance Jiang
PHY134 L31	Th 12:00pm - 2:20pm	A-119	Weibin Zhang

** Corrected Jan 29, 2019

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.