Pre-Labs and Laboratory Experiments

Any missed lab should be made up by arranging to attend another lab section that same week!

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	12:30 - 03:30 PM	Room 105	Thomas Ott
2	Monday	03:45 - 06:45 PM	Room 105	Thomas Ott
3	Tuesday	12:30 - 03:30 PM	Room 105	Hussein Al Ghoul
4	Tuesday	03:45 - 06:45 PM	Room 105	Joseph Belarge
5	Wednesday	12:30 - 03:30 PM	Room 105	Joseph Belarge
6	Thursday	12:30 - 03:30 PM	Room 105	Hussein Al Ghoul
7	Thursday	03:45 - 06:45 PM	Room 105	David Nicholus
8	Tuesday	07:00 - 10:00 PM	Room 114	David Nicholus

Laboratory Manuals

	Dates	Chapter #	Tentative Topics	Lab Manual
Week 1	08/23 - 08/26
Week 2	08/30 - 09/02
Week 3	09/06 - 09/09	Week of Labor Day: No Labs
Week 4	09/13 - 09/16	Chapters 17/18	Electric Field & Equipotential Lines	Electric Fields
Week 5	09/20 - 09/23	Chapter 19	Ohm's Law & Resistor Circuits	Ohm's Law
Week 6	09/27 - 09/30	Chapter 20	Magnetic Field	Magnetic Fields
Week 7	10/04 - 10/07		Thermistors & Wheatstone Bridge	Thermistors
Week 8	10/11 - 10/14		Resistance, Galvanometer	Meters
Week 9	10/18 - 10/21	Chapter 24	Lenses & Image Formation	Lenses
Week 10	10/25 - 10/28		Oscilloscopes & AC Circuitry	Oscilloscopes   Appendix
Week 11	11/04	Make-up Lab (UPL 105, 12:30 - 03:30 PM)		Reactance
Week 12	11/08 - 11/11	Week of Veterans Day: No Labs
Week 13	11/15 - 11/18	Chapters 28/29	Diffraction	Diffraction Grating
Week 14	11/22 - 11/25	Thanksgiving Week
Week 15	11/29 - 12/02	Chapter 30	Emission Spectrum	Radioactivity
		Week of the Finals