This is the webpage of PHY 252 Lab for Spring 2023. Follow these links for information about the lecture course: 251 Syllabus and 251 Calendar . More information is available on SBU Solar or Brightspace.

Here is the tentative lab schedule for PHY 252, Spring 2023.

  January 23 - Jan 27: Discussion of Error Propagation in Recitation.
Will take place in recitation, Tuesday or Thursday 11:30 in P-118. No lab

• January 30 - Feb 3:    Michelson Interferometer
• February 6 - Feb 10:    Photoelectric Effect
• February 13 - Feb 17:    e/m of the Electron
• February 20 - Feb 24:    Charge on the Electron    oPhysics Simulation Link

  February 27 - Mar 3: Midterm 1 on March 3. No lab.

• March 06 - Mar 10:    Bragg Scattering

  March 13-18: Spring Break, No Classes
  March 20 - Mar 24: Make-up Labs

• March 27 - Mar 31:    Hydrogen Emission
• April 03 - Apr 07:    Scattering Angles

  April 10 - Apr 14. Midterm 2 on April 13. No lab.

• April 24 - Apr 28:    Nuclear Decay

  May 01 - May 05: Make-up Labs
  May 16 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.