College Physics B - PHY2054C
  Fall 2023

  Lectures: 101 Richards (UPL) - Monday and Wednesday from 10:40 AM to 11:30 AM


The laboratory sessions begin in Week 3 of the semester (09/11 - 09/14).

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.

            Day   Time   Room   Instructor 
1  Monday   Noon - 03:00 PM   Room 105     
2  Monday   03:30 - 06:30 PM   Room 105     
3  Tuesday   11:30 - 02:30 PM   Room 105     
4  Tuesday   03:00 - 06:00 PM   Room 105     
5  Wednesday   Noon - 3:00 PM   Room 105     
6  Wednesday   3:30 - 06:30 PM   Room 105     
7  Thursday   11:30 - 02:30 PM   Room 105     
8  Thursday   03:00 - 06:00 PM   Room 105     


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

 Dates   Chapter #   Tentative Topics   Lab Manual 
Week 1 08/28 - 09/01      
Week 2 09/04 - 09/08  Week of Labor Day, No Labs
Week 3 09/11 - 09/15   Chapter 18     Electric Fields & Equipotential Lines    
Week 4 09/18 - 09/22 Chapter 20 Ohm's Law & Resistor Circuits -
Week 5 09/25 - 09/29 Chapter 20 Circuits -
Week 6 10/02 - 10/06 Chapter 22 Magnetic Fields -
Week 7 10/09 - 10/13 Chapter 23 Induction -
Week 8 10/16 - 10/20 Chapter 25 Reflection & Refraction -
Week 9 10/23 - 10/27 - TBA -
Week 10 10/30 - 11/03 Chapter 25 Lenses & Image Formation -
Week 11 11/06 - 11/10 Chapter 27 Diffraction -
Week 12 11/13 - 11/17 - TBA -
Week 13 11/20 - 11/24  Thanksgiving Week, No Labs
  Week 14     11/27 - 12/01   Chapter 31 Radioactivity -
Week 15 12/04 - 12/08   Make-up Lab (by special notification only): Gamma-rays   -
     Week of the Finals