This is the archive for the Physics Introductory Labs PHY 133 for Fall 2021.

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 courses PHY 131 or PHY 125/126.

Instructors	Director of UG Laboratory	Teaching Assistants
R. Lefferts	B. Nielsen	Nikhil Bachhawat nikhil.bachhawat@stonybrook.edu Kenneth Cortes kenneth.cortes@stonybrook.edu Anirudh Deb anirudh.deb@stonybrook.edu Hongyi Huang Hongyi.Huang@stonybrook.edu Chuhang Liu chuhang.liu@stonybrook.edu Megan McDuffie Megan.McDuffie@stonybrook.edu Cole Moczygemba Cole.Moczygemba@stonybrook.edu Nhatanh Nghiemvu    nhatanh.nghiemvu@stonybrook.edu Evan Saraivanov evan.saraivanov@stonybrook.edu Ruiren Shi ruiren.shi@stonybrook.edu Yashvinder Singh Yashvinder.Singh@stonybrook.edu Ziqi Zhou Ziqi.Zhou@stonybrook.edu

You will perform each week an experiment as indicated in the Manuals and Course Schedule 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 score of your pre-lab quiz, taken before the beginning of lab session, your performance during the experiment and a 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 pre-lab quiz is worth 15%.

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 will be graded as follows:

1. Pre-Lab Quiz (15 pts): Posted to Blackboard. To be submitted before the beginning of the relevant lab.
2. Structure (15 pts): Consists of the following sections of your report:
   • Introduction: A short overview of the experiment
   • Results: Outline what you get (plots, key calculated quantities, etc.).
   • Conclusion: Key insights of the experiment and caveats thereof
3. Data table (10 pts): A reasonably-formatted copy of the data you took in lab (along with calculated quantities, as relevant).
4. Analysis (60 pts): Varies, consists of the following components:
   • Graphs (see the PHY133/134 Plotting Tool)
   • Calculations, including uncertainty propagation (relevant work shown)
   • Discussion: Various other subsections of your report, which will vary from lab to lab

For more details, see the Guide to Lab Reports.

Here is the (dates are for Fall 2022; oops!) schedule of labs for the semester. The first lab sessions took place in the week starting from Monday, August 29.

August 22 - August 26: No lab classes.

• Lab 0 (August 29 - September 1): Introduction to Labs, Expectations and Error Analysis
  Monday, August 29 sections do Lab 0 and Lab 1

September 05: Labor Day. No classes.

• Lab 1 (September 06 - September 08): Pendulum (Data Sheet)
• Lab 2 (September 12 - September 15): Acceleration (Data Sheet)

September 19 - September 23: Make-up Lab Week for Labs 1 - 2. No lab classes.

• Lab 3 (September 26 - September 29): Projectile Motion (Data Sheet)
• Lab 4 (October 03 - October 06): Atwood Machine(Data Sheet)

October 10- 11: Fall Break. No classes.
October 12 -14: Make-up Lab Days for Labs 3 - 4. No lab classes.

• Lab 5 (October 17 - October 20): Conservation of Energy (Data Sheet)
• Lab 6 (October 24 - October 27): Conservation of Momentum (Data Sheet)

October 31 - November 03: Make-up Lab Week for Labs 5 - 6. No lab classes.

• Lab 7 (October 31 - November 03): Subject to change Angular Momentum (Data Sheet)
  Gravitation:
  (Part I Simulation Template )    ( Part II Simulation Spread Sheet )    Simulation Data Sheet )
• Lab 8 (November 07 - November 10): Simple Harmonic Motion (Data Sheet)
• Lab 9 (November 14 - November 17): Standing Waves (Data Sheet)

November 21 - November 22: Make-up Lab Days for Labs 8 - 9. No lab classes.

November 23 - November 25: Thanksgiving Break. No classes.

• Lab 10 (November 28 - December 01):Ideal Gas Law (Data Sheet)

December 5: Make-up Day for Labs 8-10. No lab classes.

Link to All Data Sheets

Here are some documents you may find helpful (You can find more information via links on the Reference Documents Page:

Guide to Lab Reports

Guide to Uncertainty and Error Analysis (Quick Reference)

Introduction to Google Sheets     Google Sheets Tutorial

Guide to Making and Using Plots

Here is a link to the plotting tool we will use to make our graphs in this class:

PHY133/134 Plotting Tool

Assignments to be announced [soon after] August 22 2022

Section Assignments for Teaching Assistants (left click to see list)

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 PHY133 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 PHY133_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 or TA issuescontact the course instructor, Richard Lefferts, at phy_introlabs@stonybrook.edu or in Office Hours, 2-4pm Wednesday in A-129 of Grad Physics.