This is the [tentative until August 2022] webpage of PHY 252 Lab for Fall 2022. Follow this link for information about the lecture course, PHY 251 Fall 2022 . More information is available on SBU Solar or Blackboard.

Here is the lab schedule for PHY 252, Fall 2022.

The first lab sessions will take place in the week starting from Monday, August 30

  August 22 - August 25: Discussion of Error Propagation in Recitation.
Will take place in recitation, Tuesday or Thursday 11:30 in P-118. No lab

• August 29 - September 2:    Michelson Interferometer

September 05: Labor Day. No classes.

• September 06 - September 09): No lab classes.
• September 12 - September 16:    Photoelectric Effect
• September 19 - September 23: No lab classes.
• September 26 - September 29:    Charge on the Electron
• October 04 - October 08:   Bragg Scattering

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

• October 17 - October 21:    e/m of the Electron  
• October 24 - October 28:    Hydrogen Emission
• October 31 - November 04: No lab
• November 07 - November 11:    Scattering Angles
• November 14 - November 18:     Make-up Lab Days. No lab classes.

November 21 - November 22: No lab classes.
November 23 - November 25: Thanksgiving Break. No classes.

• November 29 - December 02:    Nuclear Decay

December 5: Make-up Lab Day. No lab classes.
December 13: Final Exam for PHY 251 2:15-5:00pm.

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

PHY 133/134/252 Plotting Tool

Archive of Manuals

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.