PHY131

Fall 2009 Practicals

Welcome! The Practicals part of your PHY131 courses will involve problem solving, hands-on activities and team-work. What you do in Practicals will be directly related to what is going on in class and will help you on the tests and exam.

 

People

 

Jason Harlow, Practicals Coordinator. Office: MP129-A, Phone 416-946-4071,

April Seeley, Course Administrator. Office: MP129, Phone 416-946-0531,

Larry Avramidis, Lilian Leung, Phil Scolieri, Rob Smidrovskis, Practicals Technologists. Office: MP127.

 

Practical Schedule

Students attend one 2-hour practical every week.

Practical

Dates

Topics, Activities

 

Sep 9 - 18

NO PRACTICALS

1

Sep 21 - 25

Introduction
Mechanics Module 1: Activities 6, 11, 12, 13 [7 if you have time]

2

Sep 28 - Oct 2

Scientific Method Module

Error Analysis Assignment Exercise 3.1 (done as a team)

Mechanics Module 2: Activities 2, 7, 8 [6 if you have time]

3

Oct 5 - 9

Mechanics Modules 2: Activities 14, 15 A-D [15 E-H if you have time]

4

Oct 13 - 19

Mechanics Module 3: Activities 2, 15, 16 [5 if you have time] Preparation: read page 1 of today’s guide, perform the observations in one of the elevators of MP.

Error Analysis Assignment: is due during practicals. This is to be done individually.

5

Oct 20 - 26

Mechanics Module 4: Activities 1 A-F, 5 [3 if you have time]

6

Oct. 27 - Nov 2

Scrambling teams

Teamwork Module Ranking Activity on page 6 (skip pages 7,8) [Preparation: read pages 1-6 of today’s guide, perform the ranking exercise which begins on page 5.]

Numerical Approximation Module parts A-H.  [Part I if you have time]

Python Help Page – with some extra programming help.

7

Nov 3 - 9

Mechanics Module 5: Activities 5, 7, 8 [11, 13 if you have time]

  Nov 10 - 13 No Practicals Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.

8

Nov 16 - 20

Mechanics Module 6: Activities 4, 6 [8 if you have time]

9

Nov 23 - 27

Oscillations Module: Activities 2, 4, 5 [7 if you have time]

10

Nov 30 - Dec 4

Fluids Module: Activities 10, 11 A-C [9 if you have time]

 

Here are the components and their weights:

  1. Notebook Mark 1 (0% of course). After the first Practical the lab books will be collected and marked. However, this mark will not count towards your Practical mark. Instead it is intended to make our standards and requirements clear to you.
  2. Error Analysis Assignment (3% of course). You will do this assignment individually. It is due to your TAs during Practicals Session 4. The late penalty is 10% per business day of lateness reduction in mark.
  3. Notebook Mark 2 (6% of course). After Practicals Session 5, a selection of the activities from Practical Sessions 2-5 will be chosen to be marked. The decision of which Activities will be marked will be chosen more-or-less randomly after the books have been collected. All Teams will have the same Activities marked.
  4. Notebook Mark 3 (6% of course). At the end of the term a selection of the activities from Practicals Sessions 6-10 will be chosen to be marked. The decision of which Activities will be marked will be chosen more or less randomly after the books have been collected. All Teams will have the same Activities marked.

All teams should stay for the entire 110 minutes during each week of Practicals. If a student arrives more than 20 minutes late (ie later than 30 minutes past the hour), then he or she is counted as absent for that day. If a student leaves more than 10 minutes early, he or she is counted as absent for that day.

Cube of Absences Rule: Attendance at the Practical is vital for your learning. If you do not attend, you will be letting down your team-mates. The Practicals mark (worth 15% of the course mark) will be converted to a mark out of 100. The number of absences each student has will be cubed and deducted from this total out of 100. Effectively, this means that one absence generates a 1% penalty in Practicals mark. Two absences generates an 8% penalty. Three absences generates a 27% penalty, etc.

If You Have Time Activities (IYHT): IYHT Activities should not be attempted by any teams until they have spoken to a TA and obtained permission. For each Notebook Mark which counts, one IYHT activity will be randomly selected along with the regular activities. Teams that did well on the chosen IYHT get a 0.5-point bonus, while teams that didn't do it or tried but didn't do well on it get no bonus points.

Graduate Student Instructors

 

Section Day Time Group room TA1 TA2 Drop Box #
P0101 M 1-3 M2A MP125A Michael Sprague Yonggang Liu

18
P0101 M 1-3 M2B MP125B Zen Mariani Lynn McDonald 19
P0201 M 3-5 M3A MP125A Cuauhtemoc Salazar Ryan Field 20
P0201 M 3-5 M3B MP125B Lynn McDonald Zen Mariani 17
P0301 T 10-12 T1A MP125A Ramin Saleh Dylan Mahler 22
P0301 T 10-12 T1B MP125B Andres Covarrubias Chao Zhuang 23
P0301 T 10-12 T1C MP125C Kiyoshi Masui Juan Rosas 24
P0401 T 1-3 T2A MP125A Dylan Mahler Ting Wang 25
P0401 T 1-3 T2B MP125B Dongpeng Kang Zuoming Qian 26
P0501 T 3-5 T3A MP125A Aylia Mohammadi

Jean-Michel Delisle Carter

 27
P0501 T 3-5 T3B MP125B Wolfram Helwig Chris Paul 28
P0601 W 1-3 W2A MP125A Ardavan Darabi-Borojeni Jasper Palfree 29
P0601 W 1-3 W2B MP125B Hoi Kwan Lau Ryan Vilim 30
P0701 W 3-5 W3A MP125A Zuoming Qian William Witczak-Krempa 31
P0701 W 3-5 W3B MP125B Chao Zhuang Andres Covarrubias 32
P5201 W 6-8 W4A MP125A Ray Gao Wolfram Helwig 33
P5201 W 6-8 W4B MP125B Liang Ren Hoi Kwan Lau 34
P1301 R 10-12 R1A MP125A Ryan Vilim Aylia Mohammadi 35
P1301 R 10-12 R1B MP125B Xun Ma Ramin Saleh 36
P0801 R 12-2 R2A MP125A Yonggang Liu Michael Sprague 37
P0801 R 12-2 R2B MP125B Ali Mashayekhi Xun Ma 38
P0901 R 2-4 R3A MP125A Greg Dmochowski Lisa Roach 39
P0901 R 2-4 R3B MP125B Ashleigh Ingle Sherveen Ghofrani Tabari 40
P1001 F 10-12 F1A MP125A Chris Paul Gabriello Presenza-Pitman 41
P1001 F 10-12 F1B MP125B Juan Rosas Kiyoshi Masui 42
P1101 F 12-2 F2A MP125A Gabriello Presenza-Pitman Ray Gao 43
P1101 F 12-2 F2B MP125B Ting Wang Greg Dmochowski 44
P1201 F 2-4 F3A MP125A Azadeh Talebnejad Cuauhtemoc Salazar 45
P1201 F 2-4 F3B MP125B Jasper Palfree Ardavan Darabi-Borojeni 46

TA Meeting 1 Wednesdays 3:00 [not for students]. Regular attendees: Ardavan, Aylia, Azadeh, Chris, Dongpeng, Dylan, Greg, Hoi Kwan, Jasper, Jean-Michel, Liang, Lynn, Ramin, Ryan V., Temok, Ting, Wolfram, Xun, Zen. Conveners:

1. Sep. 16 Jason
2. Sep. 23 Jason
3. Sep. 30 Jason
4. Oct. 7 Jean-Michel

5. Oct. 14

 Chris
6. Oct. 21 Ryan V.
7. Oct. 28 Liang
8. Nov. 4 Jasper
9. Nov.18  
10. Nov. 25  

TA Meeting 2 Thursdays 10:00 [not for students]. Regular Attendees: Ali, Andres, Ashleigh, Chao, Gabriello, Kiyoshi, Lisa, Michael, Ray, Sherveen, William, Yonggang, Juan, Zuoming and Ryan Field. Conveners:

1. Sep. 17 Jason
2. Sep. 24 Jason
3. Oct. 1 Jason
4. Oct. 8 William

5. Oct. 15

 Kiyo
6. Oct. 22 Chao
7. Oct. 29 Ryan F.
8. Nov. 5 Ali
9. Nov.19  
10. Nov. 26