This is the webpage of PHY 252 Lab for Spring 2025. 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 2025.

  January 27 - Jan 30: No lab   Revised Jan 25

• January 29 - Feb 2:    Michelson Interferometer
  Discussion of Error Propagation in recitation, Tuesday or Thursday 11:30 in P-118.
• February 5 - Feb 9:    Photoelectric Effect
• February 12 - Feb 16:    Charge on the Electron    oPhysics Simulation Link
• February 19 - Feb 23:    Bragg Scattering
• February 26 - Mar 1:   e/m of the Electron

  March 04 - Mar 08: Midterm 1 on March 8. No lab.
  March 17-20: Spring Break, No Classes
  March 24 - Mar 27: Make-up Labs

• March 25 - Mar 29:    Hydrogen Emission
• April 01 - Apr 06:    Scattering Angles

  April 8 - Apr 12:    Midterm 2 on April 8. No lab.
  April 15 - Apr 19: Make-up Labs

• April 22 - Apr 26:    Nuclear Decay

  Apr 29 - May 03: Make-up Labs
  May 14 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.