PHY132

Winter 2010 Practicals

Welcome! The Practicals part of your PHY132 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

 

Jan 4 - 8

NO PRACTICALS

1

Jan 11 - 15

Introduction
Waves Module 1 : Activities 1, 6 A-D [6 E-G If You Have Time]

2

Jan 18 - 22

Waves Module 1 : Activities 4 A-C, 8 [9 If You Have Time]

3

Jan 25 - 29

Ray Optics Module: Activities 8, 9, 10 A-D [10.E If You Have Time]

4

Feb 1 - 5

EM Module 1: Activities 1 A,B,D, 4 A-D, F, H, I  [1 C, and update to 1 D based on observations from 1 C If You Have Time] (underplanned)

5

Feb 8 - 12

EM Module 2: Activities 1-6 [7 If You Have Time]

    Reading Week

6

Feb 22 - 26

Scrambling teams

EM Module 3 Activity 9 with one pattern. Different pods will have one of two possible conductor patterns. [1 if time permits]

7

Mar 1 - 5

EM Module 4: Activities 1-3, 8B-E, 9, 10 [11 If You Have Time]



Note: The Measurement Project is due March 8.

8

Mar 8 - 12

EM Module 5: Activities 1-4 [7 If You Have Time]

9

Mar 15 - 19

EM Module 6: Activities 1, 4, 5, 7 [12 If You Have Time]

10

Mar 22 - 26

Relativity Module: Activities 1-4 [8 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. Measurement Project (6% of course). You will do this assignment individually. It is due to your TAs drop-box on Monday, March 8 by 5:00pm, and an identical electronic copy to www.turnitin.com by 11:59pm the same day. The late penalty is 10% per business day of lateness reduction in mark.
  3. Notebook Mark 2 (7% 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 (7% 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 20% 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 Amir Feizpour Niall Ryan

9

P0101 M 1-3 M2B MP125B Bijia Pang Keven Roy
10
P0201 M 3-5 M3A MP125A Niall Ryan
Amir Feizpour 9
P0201 M 3-5 M3B MP125B Jun Cho Kemp Plumb
11
P0301 T 10-12 T1B MP125B Anjan Reijnders Zhamak Abdi Dezfooli
12
P0401 T 1-3 T2A MP125A Andreea Lupascu
Laura Handbury
13
P0401 T 1-3 T2B MP125B Xueping Zhao
Anjan Reijnders 14
P0501 T 3-5 T3A MP125A Zhe Jiang

Xueping Zhao

15
P0501 T 3-5 T3B MP125B Catalina Gomez Sanchez
Hass Abouzeid
16
P0601 W 1-3 W2A MP125A
Vijay Venkataraman Eric Lee
17
P0701 W 3-5 W3A MP125A Matt Russo
Aida Delfan Abazari
18
P0701 W 3-5 W3B MP125B Kemp Plumb Jun Cho 11
P5101 W 6-8 W4A MP125A Aida Delfan Abazari Matt Russo
18
P0801 R 12-2 R2A MP125A Laura Handbury Andreea Lupascu 13
P0801 R 12-2 R2B MP125B Julia Odegova
Philip Heron
19
P0901 R 2-4 R3A MP125A Eric Lee
VijayVenkataraman 17
P0901 R 2-4 R3B MP125B Philip Heron
Julia Odegova 19
P1001 F 10-12 F1A MP125A Zhamak Abdi Dezfooli Zhe Jiang
20
P1001 F 10-12 F1B MP125B Keven Roy
Bijia Pang 10
P1101 F 12-2 F2B MP125B Liang Ren Temok Salazar
21
P1201 F 2-4 F3B MP125B Hass Abouzeid
Catalina Gomez Sanchez
16

TA Meeting 1 Fridays 1:10-2:00pm [not for students] Hass, Catalina, Amir, Anjan, Bijia, Julia, Keven, Xueping, Zhamak. Conveners: ( Convener To Do List )

1. Jan. 8 Jason
2. Jan. 15  Jason
3. Jan. 22  Jason
4. Jan. 29  Jason

5. Feb. 5

 Jason
6. Feb. 12  Xueping
7. Feb. 26  Catalina
8. Mar. 5  Hass
9. Mar. 12  Amir
10. Mar. 19  Bijia

TA Meeting 2 Fridays 3:10-4:00pm [not for students] Liang, Temok, Aida, Andrea, Eric, Hai Jun, Kemp, Laura, Matt, Niall, Philip, Vijay, Zhe. Conveners: ( Convener To Do List )

1. Jan. 8 Jason
2. Jan. 15 Jason
3. Jan. 22 Jason
4. Jan. 29 Jason

5. Feb. 5

Jason
6. Feb. 12 Liang
7. Feb. 26 Niall
8. Mar. 5 Zhe
9. Mar. 12 Temok
10. Mar. 19 Eric