This is the webpage of PHY 252 Lab for Spring 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, Spring 2022.

  January 24 - Jan 27: Discussion of Error Propagation in Recitation.
Will take place in recitation, Tuesday or Thursday 11:30 in P-118. No lab

• January 31 - Feb 3:    Michelson Interferometer
• February 7 - Feb 10:    Photoelectric Effect
• February 14 - Feb 17:    Charge on the Electron
• February 21 - Feb 24:    Bragg Scattering

  February 28 - Mar 3: Midterm 1 on March 3. No lab.

• March 07 - Mar 10:    e/m of the Electron

  March 14-18: Spring Break, No Classes
  March 21 - Mar 24: Make-up Labs

• March 28 - Mar 31:    Hydrogen Emission
• April 04 - Apr 07:    Scattering Angles

  April 11 - Apr 14. Midterm 2 on April 14. No lab.

• April 25 - Apr 28:    Nuclear Decay

  May 02 - May 05: Make-up Labs
  May 17 Final Exam 8:00-10:45am

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.