This is the webpage of PHY 252 Lab for Spring 2025. Follow these links for information about the lecture course: 251 Syllabus. More information is available on SBU Solar or Brightspace.

Here is the tentative lab schedule for PHY 252, Spring 2025. Labs will be moved to accommodate exams in PHY 251.

• January 27 - Jan 30:    Course overview, Discussion of Error Propagation
• February 03 - Feb 06:    Michelson Interferometer
  
• February 10 - Feb 13:    Photoelectric Effect
• February 17 - Feb 20:    Charge on the Electron    oPhysics Simulation Link

  February 24 - Feb 27: Make-up Labs

• March 03 - March 06:    Bragg Scattering

  March 10 - March 13: Make-up Labs
  March 17 - March 21: Spring Break, No Classes
  March 24 - Mar 27: Make-up Labs

• March 31 - April 03:    e/m of the Electron
• April 07 - April 10:    Hydrogen Emission
• April 14 - April 17:    Scattering Angles

  April 21 - April 24: Make-up Labs

• April 28 - May 01:    Nuclear Decay

  May 05 - May 08: Make-up Labs
  May 19 Final Exam Starts 11:15am

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

Section	When	Where	Teaching Assistant
PHY252 L02	Mo 2:00pm - 3:50pm	A-132	TBA
PHY252 L03	Mo 4:00pm - 5:50pm	A-132	TBA
PHY252 L04	We 2:00pm - 3:50pm	A-132	TBA

Here are ways to ask questions or report problems:

• To contact your professor or TA, use their SBU e-mail addresses.
• Mr. Frank Chisena, 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.