PHY 252 Fall 2023
This is the webpage of PHY 252 Lab for Fall 2023. Here is the syllabus for the lab.
Follow this link for information about the lecture course, Solar or Brightspace.
Labs take place in room A 133 of the Physics Building. Sec L01 meets Monday at 1pm, Sec L02 meets Monday at 4pm and Sec L03 meets Wednesday at 2:30pm.
Here is the lab schedule for PHY 252, Fall 2023.
The first lab sessions will take place in the week starting from Monday August 28
- August 28 - September 01: Discussion of Error Propagation, in lab room A 133
September 05 - September 09: No lab classes
- September 11 - September 16: Michelson Interferometer
- September 18 - September 22: Photoelectric Effect
- September 25 - September 29: e/m of the Electron
- October 02 - October 07: Bragg Scattering
October 11 -13: Make-up Lab Days. No lab classes.
- October 16 - October 20: No lab classes.
- October 23 - October 27: No lab classes.
- October 30 - November 03: Hydrogen Emission
- November 06 - November 10: Scattering Angles Updated Nov 3
- November 13 - November 17: No lab classes.
November 22 - November 24: Thanksgiving Break. No classes.
- November 27 - December 01: Nuclear Decay
- December 04 - December 08. Charge on the Electron oPhysics Simulation Link Updated Nov 29
December 21: Final Exam for PHY 251 11:15-1:45pm.
Here are some documents and tools you may find helpful:
Data Analysis Guide
Lab Report Guide
An older but useful PHY 252 Data Analysis Guide
Wolfram Mathematica at SBU can be downloaded or used at the Physics SINC Site
Here are ways to ask questions or report problems:
- To contact your professor or TA, use their SBU e-mail addresses.
- Dr. Bent Nielsen, Director of the Undergraduate Laboratories, is in charge of, among other things, the team which maintains & provides lab equipment. He and his staff are based in room A-132.