College Physics A - PHY2053C
  Spring 2012

  Lectures: 101 Richards (UPL) - Monday and Wednesday from 10:10 to 11:00 AM


The laboratory sessions begin in Week 4 of the semester (01/23 - 01/27).

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 should 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   Office Hours 
1  Tuesday   12:30 - 03:30 PM   Room 107   Quyen Le   
2  Tuesday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 107   John Parker   
3  Tuesday   07:00 - 10:00 PM   Room 107   Konstantinos Kountouriotis   
4  Tuesday   12:30 - 03:30 PM   Room 109   Konstantinos Kountouriotis   
5  Tuesday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 109   Lakshmi Bhaskaran   
6  Thursday   12:30 - 03:30 PM   Room 107   Quyen Le   
7  Thursday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 107   John Parker   
8  Thursday   12:30 - 03:30 PM   Room 109   Aristeidis Tsaris   
9  Thursday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 109   Aristeidis Tsaris   


Laboratory Schedule and Manuals

 Dates   Chapter #   Tentative Topics   Lab Manual 
 Week 1   01/02 - 01/06       
Week 2 01/09 - 01/13      
Week 3 01/16 - 01/20  Week of Martin Luther King Day: No Labs 
Week 4 01/23 - 01/27   Vectors Vectors
Week 5 01/30 - 02/03 2 Newton's Laws Gravity
Week 6 02/06 - 02/10 5 Circular Motion Circular Motion
Week 7 02/13 - 02/17   Computer Analysis Computer Analysis
Week 8 02/20 - 02/24 7 Linear Momentum Linear Momentum
Week 9 02/27 - 03/02    
 Week 10  03/05 - 03/09  Spring Break 
Week 11 03/12 - 03/16 8 Rigid Bodies Torques Torque
Week 12 03/19 - 03/23 11 Harmonic Motion Harmonic Motion
Week 13 03/26 - 03/30 10 Pressure, Density, Buoyancy  
Week 14 04/02 - 04/06 12 Waves Waves
Week 15 04/10    Make-up Lab (UPL 107, 12:30 - 3:30 PM)   
Week 16 04/16 - 04/20    
     Week of the Finals