College Physics B - PHY2054C
  Fall 2014

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


The laboratory sessions begin in Week 3 of the semester (09/08 - 09/12).

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   12:30 - 03:30 PM   Room 105   John Parker 
2  Monday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 105   John Parker 
3  Tuesday   12:30 - 03:30 PM   Room 105   Catherine Schiber 
4  Tuesday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 105   Catherine Schiber 
5  Tuesday   07:00 - 10:00 PM   Room 114   Zulkaida Akbar 
6  Wednesday   12:30 - 03:30 PM   Room 105   Jennifer Neu 
7  Wednesday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 105   Jennifer Neu 
8  Thursday   12:30 - 03:30 PM   Room 105   Kye Stalpes 
9  Thursday   03:45 - 06:45 PM   Room 105   Kye Stalpes 


Laboratory Manuals and Schedule

 Dates   Chapter #   Tentative Topics   Lab Manual 
Week 1 08/25 - 08/29      
Week 2 09/01 - 09/05  Week of Labor Day, No Labs
Week 3 09/08 - 09/12   Chapter     Electric Field & Equipotential Lines   Electric Fields
Week 4 09/15 - 09/19 Chapter Ohm's Law & Resistor Circuits Ohm's Law
Week 5 09/22 - 09/26 Chapter Magnetic Fields Magnetic Fields
Week 6 09/29 - 10/03 Chapter Thermistors & Wheatstone Bridge Thermistors
Week 7 10/06 - 10/10   Resistance, Galvanometer Meters
Week 8 10/13 - 10/17   Oscilloscopes & AC Circuitry   Oscilloscopes   Appendix  
Week 9 10/20 - 10/24 Chapter Lenses & Image Formation Lenses
Week 10 10/27 - 10/31 Chapter Diffraction Diffraction Grating
Week 11 11/03 - 11/07 Chapter Laser Light Laser Light
Week 12 11/10 - 11/14  Week of Veterans' Day, No Labs 
  Week 13     11/17 - 11/21   Chapter Emission Spectrum Radioactivity
Week 14 11/24 - 11/28  Thanksgiving Week, No Labs
Week 15 12/04 Make-up Lab (by special notification only)   Absorption of Gamma-Rays  
     Week of the Finals