PHY152H1S
Winter 2016 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. 

Practicals Room MP126A

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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 MP126W.  (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,
Damya Souami, Lecturer B.  Office: MP405

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.  TAs whose names are in italics were also TAs for PHY151 last fall.  Drop boxes are in the basement of the tower-part of MP, downstairs from the bust of Isaac Newton.

Section Time Group Code
TA1 (marks Practicals activities)
TA2 (marks problem sets)
Drop Box
P0301 T9am-12noon T9 Hanbo Wu
Dominique Soutiere 13
P0101 T1-4pm
T1 Nick Luciw
MattheW Badali
14
P0601
W9am-12noon
W9
Fengyi Xie
Olinka Bedroya
15
P0501 W2-5pm W2 Randy Conklin
Arun Vellat Sadashivan
16
P5101
W5-8pm W5 Antoine Sarracini
Kyusung Hwang
17
P0302 R9am-12noon R9 Chuangxin Lin
Harry Li 18
P0401 R1-4pm R1 Darsh Kodwani Chav Chau
19

Here is the Practicals Marking Rubric .

Here is the PHY152 Drop-in Centre Schedule

Practical Schedule (Subject to Change)

Practical

Date

Topics, Activities

 

Jan 11-15

NO PRACTICALS

1

Jan 19-21

Practicals Introduction
Practice Problem Set 1
Practicals Activities: Electricity and Magnetism Module 1 Activities 1, 2 and 4 (Activity 7 if you have time) [Note for next year: too many activities]
Uncertainty Propagation Aid Sheet

2

Jan 26-28

Practice Problem Set 2
Practicals Activities: Uncertainty Module 4, Questions 1-4 and Activities 1-4 (If you have time activity is available at the end of the write-up)


For advice on entering data into a python code, see Appendix starting on page 7 of:
Uncertainty Module 1 from PHY151

3

Feb 2-4

Practice Problem Set 3
Practicals Activities: Electricity and Magnetism Module 2 Activities 1-6 (Activity 7 if you have time)
[Note: Background reading to help with this week's Practicals Activities is Chapter 31 of Mazur.]

4

Feb 9-11

Practice Problem Set 4
Practicals Activities:
Electricity and Magnetism Module 3 Activity 9 (Activity 5 if you have time)
Printable Conductive Sheet Pattern Templates - for 5 patterns - each pod choose 2 to map

  Feb 16-18
NO PRACTICALS - Reading Week


Feb 23-25

NO PRACTICALS - Midterm on Feb.26
See Drop-In Centre Schedule for this week

5

Mar 1-3

New Teams!  TA1 will be scrambling pod assignments today!
Practice Problem Set 5
Practicals Activities: Electricity and Magnetism Module 5 Activities 1, 2, 3 and 6.  [Activity 4 if you have time]

6

Mar 8-10

Practice Problem Set 6

Practicals Activities: Oscillations Module  Activities 2, 3, 4 and 9 [Activity 5 if you have time]
Web version of Oscillations Module (beta version)

Python code used in Activity 9:   Pendulum.py

7

Mar 15-17

Practice Problem Set 7
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]

8

Mar 22-24

Practice Problem Set 8

Practicals Activities in pairs: Computational Module 4 Activities 1 and 2: Final working codes due before the beginning of your practical next week by email to your TA1.
NOTE: Problem Set 8 is due Monday Mar.28 at 5:00pm (due to Good Friday holiday)

9

Mar 29-31

Practice Problem Set 9
Practicals Activities: Waves Module 1 Activities 4 and 9 [Activity 8 if you have time]

10

Apr 5-7

Practice Problem Set 10
TA Evaluations in Practicals today
Practicals Activities: Waves Module 2 Activity 1, red and blue laser [green laser if you have time]