This is the webpage of PHY 252 Lab for Fall 2022. Follow this link for information about the lecture course, PHY 251 Spring 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 29

  August 22, August 24: Discussion of Error Propagation in PHY 251 Recitation. 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:    Charge on the Electron
• September 19 - September 23:    e/m of the Electron
• September 26 - September 30: No lab classes.
• October 03 - October 07:    Photoelectric Effect

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

• October 17 - October 21:    Bragg Scattering
• October 24 - October 28:    Hydrogen Emission
• October 31 - November 04:    No lab classes.    Updated Oct 31
• November 07 - November 11:    No lab classes.
• November 14 - November 18:     Scattering Angles    Updated Oct 31

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.