This is the webpage of PHY 252 Lab for Spring 2026. Follow these links for information about the lecture course: 251 Syllabus from Fall 2025. More information is available on SBU Solar or Brightspace.

Here is the tentative lab schedule for PHY 252, Spring 2026. Labs will be moved to accommodate exams in PHY 251.

• January 26 - Jan 29:    No class meeting. See Brightspace for Welcome information
• February 02 - Feb 05:    Intro to course and Discussion of Data Analysis, in lab room A 133
• February 9 - Feb 12:    Michelson Interferometer
  
• February 16 - Feb 19:    Photoelectric Effect

  February 23 - Feb 26: Make-up Labs

• March 02 - Mar 05:    Charge on the Electron    oPhysics Simulation Link
• March 09 - March 12:    Bragg Scattering

  March 16 - March 20: Spring Break, No Classes
  March 23 - Mar 26: Make-up Labs

• March 30 - April 02:    e/m of the Electron
• April 06 - April 9:    Hydrogen Emission
• April 13 - April 16:    Scattering Angles

  April 20 - April 23: Make-up Labs

• April 27 - Apr 30:    Nuclear Decay

  May 04 - May 07: Make-up Labs
  Monday May 18 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 SINC Sites

PHY 133/134/252 Plotting Tool

Archive of Manuals

Section	When	Where	Teaching Assistant
PHY252 L02	Mo 2:00pm - 3:50pm	A-132	Shangke Zhou    shangke.zhou@stonybrook.edu
PHY252 L03	Mo 4:00pm - 5:50pm	A-132	Shared
PHY252 L04	We 2:00pm - 3:50pm	A-132	Manas Choudhary    manas.choudhary@stonybrook

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.