College Physics A - PHY2053C
  Spring 2024

  Lectures: 101 Richards (UPL) - Monday and Wednesday from 9:20 AM to 10:10 AM


The laboratory sessions begin in Week 3 of the semester (01/22 - 01/25).

First-Day Attendance IN THE FIRST WEEK of the semester is NOT required for the laboratory.
If you do not meet the First-Day Attendance requirement for the first class meeting (lecture), you will also be dropped from the lab.

Laboratory Experiments

Any missed lab must be made up by arranging to attend another lab section that same week! Inform your own lab instructor about the situation as well as the instructor of the other lab section!

You cannot pass the course if you miss a lab!

The purpose of the laboratory sessions is to gain hands-on experience with experimental devices, to develop skills in performing experiments, to learn methods for analyzing scientific data, and to relate the physics concepts covered in class to real experimental situations. The lab experiments count as 15% of your overall grade. Each student must complete a lab report for each experiment, following the format prescribed by the lab instructor, before leaving at the end of the lab session.

   Section      Day     Time     Room     Instructor  
1  Monday   Noon - 03:00 PM   Room 105    Mohammad  
7  Monday   03:30 - 06:30 PM   Room 105    Mohammad  
8  Tuesday   11:30 - 02:30 PM   Room 105    Nikhil  
2  Tuesday   03:00 - 06:00 PM   Room 105    Jiaxing  
4   Wednesday    Noon - 3:00 PM   Room 105    Angel  
5   Wednesday    3:30 - 06:30 PM   Room 105    Angel  
3  Thursday   11:30 - 02:30 PM   Room 105    Nikhil  
6  Thursday   11:30 - 02:30 PM   Room 112    Angel  
9  Thursday   03:00 - 06:00 PM   Room 105    Jiaxing  


Laboratory Manuals and Schedule (very tentative and subject to change)

 Dates   Chapter #   Tentative Topics   Lab Manual 
 Week 1   01/08 - 01/11       
Week 2 01/15 - 01/18  Week of Martin Luther King (MLK) Day - No Labs 
Week 3 01/22 - 01/25   Chapter -     Excel Laboratory   -
Week 4 01/29 - 02/01   Chapter -   Vectors -
Week 5 02/05 - 02/08   Chapter -   Kinematics -
Week 6 02/12 - 02/15   Chapter -   Newton's Laws -
Week 7 02/19 - 02/22   Chapter -   Centripetal Force -
Week 8 02/26 - 02/29   Chapter -   Work and Energy -
Week 9 03/04 - 03/07   Chapter -   Linear Momentum -
Week 10 03/11 - 03/14  Spring Break - No Labs 
Week 11 03/18 - 03/21   Chapter -   Rotational Dynamics -
Week 12 03/25 - 03/28   Chapter -   No Lab -
Week 13 04/01 - 04/04   Chapter -   No Lab -
Week 14 04/08 - 04/11   Chapter -   Archimedes' Principle -
Week 15 04/15 - 04/18   Chapter -   Pendulum Lab -
Week 16 04/22 - 04/25   Make-up Lab (by special notification only)   -
     Week of the Finals