College Physics A - PHY2053C
  Spring 2014

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


The laboratory sessions begin in Week 4 of the semester (01/27 - 01/31).

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!
Important: 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     Zahra Hayati     
2  Tuesday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 107   Zahra Hayati   
3  Tuesday   07:00 - 10:00 PM   Room 107   Xi Wang   
4  Tuesday   12:30 - 03:30 PM   Room 109   Arash Yunesi   
5  Tuesday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 109   Ying Wang   
6  Thursday   12:30 - 03:30 PM   Room 107   Arash Yunesi   
7  Thursday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 107   Ying Wang   
8  Thursday   12:30 - 03:30 PM   Room 109   Wang-Wei Lan   
9  Thursday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 109   Wang-Wei Lan   
   Monday   12:20 - 03:20 PM   Room ?   Josh Mendez   
   Wednesday   12:20 - 03:20 PM   Room ?   Josh Mendez   


Laboratory Schedule and Manuals

 Dates   Chapter #   Tentative Topics   Lab Manual 
 Week 1   01/06 - 01/10       
Week 2 01/13 - 01/17      
Week 3 01/20 - 01/24  Week of Martin Luther King Day: No Labs 
Week 4 01/27 - 01/31   Vectors Vectors
Week 5 02/03 - 02/07 2 Newton's Laws Gravity
Week 6 02/10 - 02/14 5 Circular Motion Circular Motion
Week 7 02/17 - 02/21   Computer Analysis  Computer Analysis 
Week 8 02/24 - 02/28 7 Linear Momentum Linear Momentum
Week 9 03/03 - 03/07    
 Week 10  03/10 - 03/14  Spring Break 
Week 11 03/17 - 03/21      
Week 12 03/24 - 03/28 8 Rigid Bodies Torques Torque
Week 13 03/31 - 04/04 10  Pressure, Density, Buoyancy  Buoyancy
Week 14 04/07 - 04/11 11 Harmonic Motion Harmonic Motion
Week 15 04/14 - 04/18 12 Waves Waves
Week 16 04/21 - 04/25    Make-up Lab (UPL 107, PM)   
     Week of the Finals