Electromagnetism, Waves, and Radiation for the Sports Science Lab (PHY116)
- Spring 2008

Room : Physics Building A125
Time : Tuesday 11:20AM-1:20PM

TA : Zhengwen Zhang
E-mail: zzhang@grad.physics.sunysb.edu
Office: C-121
Office Hours: Tue 2:00-4:00PM, Wed 1:00-3:00PM
Phone: 2-4078(office) 631-413-5388(cell)
PHY116 web page: http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~zzhang/PHY116.html

If these office hours are inconvenient, please do not hesitate to contact me to make an appointment.



Don't forget to...



Lab Report

Late reports are not accepted and graded. If experiment has been done and your attandance signature and raw data with my signature have been kept, partial(But low!!) credits will still be given for the lab activities despite the late reports. Copied reports will count as zero. Each lab report should have the following five sections at least. You may have additional sections if you want. The full score is 10 points, consisting of the points in the parentheses. Don't forget a title which includes the title of the Lab, your name and your partner's name.

  1. Introduction (1 point)
    - This should tell me the point of the lab in your own words. I expect to learn here what it is that you think makes this lab worth doing.
  2. Procedure (1 point)
    - Tell me how you went about completing your lab. The lab manual tells me what should work, I want to know what worked for you. Don't copy the lab manual. Write down in your own word.
  3. Data (1 point)
    - In this section I want to see the data (numbers) that you recorded while doing the experiment. This is UNMODIFIED, UNTOUCHED, RAW NUMBERS with their errors. Don't forget the units. You do not need to rewrite the data, I need RAW DATA(Of course containing my signature)!
  4. Analysis (4 points)
    - This is the most important part of the lab report. It is this section that will determine your grade most importantly. Here I expect to see what you do with the data that you collected in the previous section as per the lab manual's instructions. Show your whole process.
  5. Conclusion and discussion (3 points)
    - Here I want you to convey to me what it is that you got out of the experiment. If you felt it was a success, tell me why; If you thought it was a failure, explain to me what were your major obstacles and how you think they could be overcome. Most importantly, tell me what these results show about your expectations. If there are questions in the lab manual, answer to them in this section.



Grading

Your final grade will be determined by the average of the lab report scores. For questions regarding your lab report scores, contact me.


Schedule

Lab manual is available from here. If you can't attend the class for any reason (medical or otherwise), contact me ASAP.
Date Experiment (Tue 11:20AM-1:20PM) Hand in Lab Report
Feb 5 #1 Intro and Error Analysis --
Feb 12 #2 Hooke's Law #1 Intro and Error Analysis
Feb 19 #3 Standing Waves #2 Hooke's Law
Feb 26 NO LAB (PHY 114 Midterm I) ---
Mar 4 #4 Electric Field Plotting #3 Standing Waves
Mar 11 #5 Magnetic Force and Induction #4 Electric Field Plotting
Mar 18 NO LAB (Spring Break) (Resistors in Parallel and Series) ---
Mar 25 #6 DC Circuits (Resistors in Parallel and Series) #5 Magnetic Force and Induction
Apr 1 #7 Reflection, Refraction, Lenses, and Optical Instruments Parts 3-5 #6 DC Circuits (Resistors in Parallel and Series)
Apr 8 NO LAB (PHY114 Midterm II) --
Apr 15 #8 Reflection, Refraction, Lenses, and Optical Instruments Parts 1-2 #7 Reflection, Refraction, Lenses, and Optical Instruments Parts 3-5
Apr 22 #9 Photoelectric Effect #8 Reflection, Refraction, Lenses, and Optical Instruments Parts 1-2
Apr 29 #10 Atomic Spectra #9 Photoelectric Effect
May 6 NO LAB (Make Up) #10 Atomic Spectra


Links
PHY114 Web Page
Stony Brook Physics and Astronomy Dept.
SUNY Stony Brook Main Page