On the A-level of the Physics building there are two Kooperation and Learning Areas A-129and A-131. There, Undergrad Teaching Assistants (UGTA), graduate teaching assistants (TA), teaching staff and faculty hold their office hours.
We hope to see you there!

The rooms are open ~9am - 6pm Monday - Friday.

Why are they no longer called "Help Rooms"? Just to be annoying? Yes, that, but also because the old name created the wrong expectations. This is a site for active, engaged learning (or working quietly on your own!), rather than watching someone else do your assignment for you.

Your course instructors and TA's hold Office Hours for 2 hours or more every week during the semester. Most do this in the Help Rooms but some hold extra hours just for students in their own course. See your course syllabus or Brightspace

Here are links to other kinds of help

• Residential Tutoring
• College of Engineering Tutoring
• Academic Success and Tutoring Center
• TA's for introductory courses will answer questions via e-mail, although they do this on their own (not necessarily your preferred!) schedule. See the above links for course webpages and addresses.

• E-mail the PHY 133/134 staff at phy133_lab at stonybrook.edu or phy134_lab at stonybrook.edu

  E-mail the PHY 121 or 122 staff at phy121_lab at stonybrook.edu

• Enrollment, permissions and other questions regarding administrative issues could be addressed to
  ugpd_phyast at stonybrook.edu
• Administrative questions regarding the in-person lab courses could be addressed to phy_introlabs at stonybrook.edu

Here are text books used by Stony Brook Department of Physics and Astronomy introductory classes; they can be obtained from all the usual sources plus the SBU Bookstore

Copies are also available for short-term loan in SBU Libraries

• PHY 131/132, Online version
  Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Foundations and Connections by Debora M. Katz, Cengage Learning 2015.
• PHY 131/132 Studio versions, PHY 125/126/127
  Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Douglas Giancoli, Pearson/Prentice Hall 2008.
• PHY 131/132, In class versions
  Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, 5th Edition by Douglas Giancoli, Pearson/Prentice Hall 2021.
• PHY 121/122, In class and Studio versions
  College Physics: A Strategic Approach by Knight, Jones and Field. Pearson 2010.
  College Physics by Etkina, Gentile and Van Heuvelen. Pearson 2014.