PHY152H1S Winter 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,
Young-June Kim, Course Professor.  Office: MP084, Phone 416-978-7868,

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

Phil Scolieri, Practicals Technologist. Office: MP127.

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

Section	Time	Group Code	TA1 (marks lab notebooks)	TA2 (marks problem sets)	Drop Box
P0301	T9am-12noon	T1	Antoine Sarracini	John Feng	#45
P0101	T1-4pm	T2	Ken Nurse	Maria Tibbo	#46
P0501	W2-5pm	W2	Harry Li	Russell Blackport	#47
P5101	W5-8pm	W3	Kyusung Hwang	Dominique Soutiere	#48
P0302	R9am-12noon	R1	Jesse Cresswell	Tony Kang	#50
P0401	R1-4pm	R2	Kyle Manchee	Mosa Alhamami	#49

Here is the Practicals Marking Rubric .

Practical Schedule (Subject to Change)
Practical	Date	Topics, Activities
	Jan 6-8	NO PRACTICALS
1	Jan 13-15	Practicals Activities for hours 2 and 3: Uncertainty Module 4.  Please do Questions 1-4 and Activities 1-4 Helpful Resources for above: Uncertainty Propagation Aid Sheet Uncertainty Module 1 from PHY151 - Useful Python Appendix starts on page 6.
2	Jan 20-22	Practicals Activities: Electricity and Magnetism Module 1 Activities 1,2 and 4, plus Activity 7 if you have time
3	Jan 27-29	Practicals Activities: Electricity and Magnetism Module 2 Activities 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 Electricity and Magnetism Module 4 Activity 5, plus Activity 7 if you have time
4	Feb 3-5	Practicals Activities:Electricity and Magnetism Module 3 Activity 9, plus Activity 5 if you have time Printable Conductive Sheet Pattern Templates - for 5 patterns - each pod choose 2
	Feb 10-12	NO PRACTICALS - Midterm test Feb. 13 4-6pm Drop-in Centre MP126 open Wed.2-5pm, Thu.1-4pm, Fri.10-12am and 2-3pm
	Feb 17-19	NO PRACTICALS - Reading Week
5	Feb 24-26	New Teams!  TA1 will be scrambling pod assignments today! Practicals Activities: Electricity and Magnetism Module 5 Activities 1, 2, 3 and 6.  [Activity 4 if you have time] Capacitance Mini-Presentation Powerpoint PDF
6	Mar 3-5	Practicals Activities canceled this week (TA strike) Working on Practical 6 Questions + Problem Set 6 hints with Jason Harlow first hour only
7	Mar 10-12	Practicals Activities in pairs Data fitting and Python:Uncertainty Module 5 Activity 1 + Question 1, Activity 2 + Questions 2-4.  [Questions 5-7 if you have time] [TA strike notes: If you come to your normal Practicals time, Professors Kim and Harlow will be there to help you work on these at your normal pods. If, for any reason, you cannot make it to Practicals, these activities must be done and submitted electronically to Jason Harlow by Thursday, March.12 at 4:00pm. Late work will *not* be accepted. You may work alone if you wish, or in pairs; just attach both names to the top. Room MP257 is available all week and there is Python installed on those computers.]
8	Mar 17-19	Practicals Activities in pairs: Python Waves "Write-your-own-code" Project. Final working codes due before the beginning of your practical next week by email to Jason Harlow. [TA strike notes: If you come to your normal Practicals time, Professors Kim and Harlow will be there to help you work on these and prepare for your problem sets. If, for any reason, you cannot make it to Practicals, these activities must be done and submitted electronically to Jason Harlow before the beginning of your next practical session Mar.24, 25 or 26. You may work alone if you wish, or in pairs; just provide both of your full names and student numbers in comments at the top of the codes. Room MP257 is available all week and there is Python installed on those computers.]
9	Mar 24-26	Practicals Activities: Uncertainty Module 6 Questions 1,2 and 4 plus Activities 1 and 2. [Question 5 if you have time] Note that this module refers to some activities from the five previous Uncertainty Modules, which are all available at http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/GUM/ . Uncertainty Propagation Aid Sheet [TA strike notes: The first hour of each practical will be Professor Kim helping with the Practice Problem Set 9 questions (one of which will appear on the final exam).  For the second and third hours, Jason Harlow will be there to help the pods of 4 complete the Uncertainty Module questions and activities.  Since this practical involves actual equipment, student attendance is mandatory.]
10	Mar 31-Apr 2	Practical Activity: Wavelength of Light. - Pods of three or four students each NOTE: This week returns to the pre-strike format of practicals.  For the first hour, you will work on the white-boards on the "Practical 10 Question" set.  For hours 2 and 3 you will work on the activities in the lab notebooks.