PHY151H1F Fall 2015 Practicals Welcome!  The Practicals are mandatory weekly 3-hour sessions in which you will get together in teams of 2 or 4 to work on hands-on activities, experimental measurements and error analysis and computer simulations.

What you do in Practicals will be directly related to what is going on in class, and is designed to help you succeed on the tests and exam.  Practicals are sometimes called "labratorials", as they combine traditional aspects of both laboratories and tutorials.

All PHY151 Practicals are held in MP126A.  (This is room 126 in the west-half of the room near the windows.)

Contacts:

Jason Harlow, Practicals Coordinator. Office: MP121-B, Phone 416-946-4071,
Sabine Stanley, Course Professor.  Research Office: MP516B, Phone 416-946-8130.  Undergrad Chair Office: MP328, Phone 416-978-6674

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

Phil Scolieri, Practicals Technologist. Office: MP127.

There are eight Practicals sections with a maximum of 32 students per section:

Section	Time	Group Code	TA1 (marks activity booklets)	TA2 (marks problem sets)	Drop Box
P0102	T9am-12noon	T9	Dominque Soutiere	Brian Duong	9
P0101	T1-4pm	T1	Nazim Boudjada	MattheW Badali	10
P0201	W9am-12noon	W9	Leon Yuan	Erik Lutsch	11
P0202	W2-5pm	W2	Kristof Bognar	Russell Blackport	12
P5203	W5-8pm	W5	Erfan Shalchian Tabrizi	Rod Parsa	15
P0301	R9am-12noon	R9	Robert  Les	Fengyi Xie	14
P0302	R1-4pm	R1	Xin Song	Chav Chau	13
P0401	F9am-12noon	F9	Paul Godin	Chi Yan	16

Here is the Practicals Marking Rubric .
Here is the PHY151 Drop-in Centre Hours

Practical Schedule (Subject to Change)
Practical	Date	Topics, Activities
	Sep 14-18	NO PRACTICALS Practicals Introduction and Pre-course Diagnostic Test in class Friday Sep.18
1	Sep 22-25	To Prepare: Look at the department Introduction to Python page, in particular please read Tutorial 1.  You can also watch the 20 minute Intro Video to today's uncertainty module Practice Problem Set 1 - to be done in Practicals not for marks Practical Activities: Uncertainty Module 1, Mechanics Module 1 Activities 11, 12 (and 13 If You Have Time)
2	Sep 29 - Oct 2	To Prepare: Read Chapter 6 plus Sections 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.5 and 14.6 of Mazur Slides Shown in Practicals today Practice Problem Set 2 - to be done in Practical not for marks Practical Activities: Mechanics Module 2, Activities 5, 7, 8 (and Activity 6 if you have time) Relativity Module, Activities 15 and 3
3	Oct 6 - 9	To Prepare: Practice at home with the "Physics with VPython" tutorial online - Learn how to make a ball and a floor. Practice Problem Set 3 - to be done in Practical not for marks Splitting into pairs for Practical Activities: Python Programming and Freefall Kinematics
4	Oct 13 - 16	To Prepare: Read Chapter 3 of Mazur "Principles" book Practice Problem Set 4 - to be done in Practical not for marks Practical Activities: Uncertainty Module 2, Mechanics Module 2 Activity 14 (and 15 If you Have Time) Technical Specifications for Digital Caliper
5	Oct 20 - 23	To Prepare: Read Chapter 4 of Mazur "Principles" book Practice Problem Set 5 - to be done in Practical not for marks (Solution to Challenge Problem) Practical Activities: Mechanics Module 4 Activities 1-4 (and 5 If You Have Time)
		Mid-term test Oct. 23 evening 7-9pm in EX100
6	Oct 27-30	Scrambling Teams! New pods are assigned by your TA today! Practice Problem Set 6 - to be done in Practicals not for marks Splitting into pairs for Practicals Activities: Python Collisions Starter python code (not complete): lab6exA.py
7	Nov 3-6	To Prepare: Take a ride on one of the elevators in the 14-storey tower of the Physics building.  Observe the spring scale and fill out the Elevator Data Form.  Please bring the form to Practicals. Practice Problem Set 7 - to be done in Practicals not for marks Practical Activities: Mechanics Module 3 Activities 2, 5, 15, 16 (and 4 If You Have Time) Uncertainty Propagation Aid Sheet
	Nov.9-13	NO PRACTICALS (due to Monday and Tuesday Fall break)
8	Nov 17-20	Practice Problem Set 8 - to be done in Practicals not for marks Practical Activities: Uncertainty Module 3, Mechanics Module 5 Activities 14, 15, 16, 17 (and 6 & 11 If You Have Time)
9	Nov 24-27	To Prepare: Read Chapter 10 of Mazur "Principles" book.  In particular, Section 10.7, and work through Example 10.6.  Also have a look at the Wikipedia page on the Drag Equation. Practice Problem Set 9 - to be done in Practicals not for marks Splitting into pairs for Practicals Activities: Python Projectiles Vacuum Projectile python code (with one bug): lab9exA.py
10	Dec 1-4	To Prepare: Read Chapters 11 and 12 of Mazur "Principles" book. Practice Problem Set 10 - to be done in Practicals not for marks Practicals Activities - Mechanics Activities 3.17, 6.6 and 6.8 (Fall 2013 Exam Q.3 if you have time) Practicals Evaluations today!