PHY 252 Fall 2025
This is the webpage of PHY 252 Lab for Fall 2025. Syllabi for the course can be found here .
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 2pm, Sec L02 meets Monday at 4pm, Sec L03 meets Wednesday at 2pm and Sec L04 meets Wednesday at 4:00pm.
Here is the lab schedule for PHY 252, Fall 2025.
The first lab sessions will take place in the week starting from Monday August 25
- August 26 - August 29: Discussion of Error Propagation, in lab room A 133
September 03 - September 04: No lab classes
- September 08 - September 10: Michelson Interferometer
- September 15 - September 17: Photoelectric Effect
- September 22 - September 24: No lab classes.
- September 29 - October 02: Charge on the Electron oPhysics Simulation Link
- October 6 - October 9: e/m of the Electron
October 15 -16: No lab classes.
- October 21 - October 23: Scattering Angles
- October 27 - October 30: Bragg Scattering
- November 03 - November 6: No lab classes.
- November 11 - November 13: Hydrogen Emission
- November 17 - November 20: Nuclear Decay
November 26 - November 28: Thanksgiving Break. No classes.
- December 01 - December 04. No lab classes.
December 11: 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
Wolfram Mathematica at SBU can be downloaded or used at SINC Sites
Analysis and Plotting Tutorial An older but useful PHY 252 Data Analysis Guide
Here are ways to ask questions or report problems:
- To contact your professor or TA, use their SBU e-mail addresses.
- Mr. Frank Chisena, 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.