Summer 2011 Practicals

PHY131 / PHY132

Welcome! The Practicals of your PHY131 / PHY132 courses will involve discussion, problem-solving, hands-on activities and team-work. The goal is to work on interesting, challenging problems, questions and experiments, deepen your understanding of the underlying Physics, and develop your laboratory skills and analysis techniques.

Please bring a calculator with you to practicals, for use on occasional quizzes.

PHY132 Summer Practical Schedule Students attend two 2-hour practicals every week on Tuesdays and Thursdays: either 2:10-4:00 pm OR 4:10-6:00 pm OR 8:10-10:00 pm. All practicals are in MP125 A,B, or C. Class lists for the individual rooms will be posted a few days before the first practical.
Practical	Dates	Topics, Activities
	Tue. July 5	NO PRACTICALS today; but please read the Introduction
1	Thu. July 7	Waves Module Activities 1, 6
2	Tue. July 12	Waves Module Activities 2, 4, 8 IYHT Activity 3
3	Thu. July 14	Waves Module Activities 7 A-D, 9 A-D IYHT Activity 9 E-F Note: if standing waves are confusing, you might want to play with the app found here
4	Tue. July 19	Ray Optics Module Activities 5, 8, 10 A-D IYHT Activity 4
	Thu. July 21	NO PRACTICALS today; study for today's test
5	Tue. July 26	Ray Optics Module Activity 1, 2 EM Module 1 Activity 1 A-D, IYHT Part E
6	Thu. July 28	Scrambling teams EM Module 1 Activities 2, 3, IYHT Activity 7
7	Tue. August 2	EM Module 1 Activities 8, 9 (skip C for now), 10 EM Module 3 Activities 1, 2, 3 IYHT EM Module 1, Activity 9 C
8	Thu. August 4	EM Module 3 Activity 9 This is a long activity. It is recommended that you read the entire activity before the practical.
9	Tue. August 9	EM Module 6 Activities 2, 3, 5, 8 IYHT 13
10	Thu. August 11	Relativity Module Activities 2 A,B, 3 A,B,C, IYHT 3 D,E Note that this is a short Practical as today's class is 3 hours.

PHY132 H1F Summer - Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Schedule

Section	Time	Group	Room	TA1	TA2
L5301	TR2-4	1A	MP125-A	Ian Chan	Luke Helt
L5301	TR2-4	1B	MP125-B	Joachim Harnois-Deraps	Greg Dmochowski
L5101	TR4-6	2A	MP125-A	Luke Helt	Ian Chan
L5101	TR4-6	2B	MP125-B	Greg Dmochowski	Shreyas Potnis
L5101	TR4-6	2C	MP125-C	Nathan Cheng	Behi Fatholahzadeh
L5201	TR8-10	3A	MP125-A	Behi Fatholahzadeh	Nathan Cheng
L5201	TR8-10	3B	MP125-B	Shreyas Potnis	Joachim Harnois-Deraps

People
Practicals Coordinator: Brian Wilson, Office MP129-D , Phone 416-978-7783
Course Administrator: April Seeley, Office: MP129, Phone 416-946-0531,
Practicals Technologists: Larry Avramidis, Lilian Leung, Phil Scolieri, Rob Smidrovskis, Office: MP127.

Phone In Centre Notes:

Calls may be limited to a maximum time, such as 15 minutes per student.
You may be asked to log on to the portal site for the course and click Communication, click Collaboration, and Join the virtual classroom, so that the instructor you are speaking to can show you what he/she is thinking.
Some instructor may also suggest using http://www.twiddla.com/, which is a bit more user-friendly than the portal.

PHY131 Summer Practical Schedule Students attend two 2-hour practicals every week on Tuesdays and Thursdays: either 2:10-4:00 pm OR 4:10-6:00 pm OR 8:10-10:00 pm. All practicals are in MP125 A,B, or C. Class lists for the individual rooms will be posted a few days before the first practical.
Practical	Dates	Topics, Activities
	Tue. May 17	NO PRACTICALS today; but please read the Introduction
1	Thu. May 19	Error Analysis Examples 1, 2, 3; Mechanics Module 1 Activities 6, 7, 8A-8F, 8I; IYHT: Error Analysis Examples 4, 5
2	Tue. May 24	Mechanics Module 1 Activities 1, 2, 11, 12, 13; Also for #12 (after part E): find the launch speed of the cart. IYHT: Mechanics Module 1 Activity 4
3	Thu. May 26	Mechanics Module 2 Activities 7, 9 A-E, 10, 11 IYHT: Activity 9 F-K
4	Tue. May 31	Mechanics Module 3 Activities 5, 7, 9, 10 IYHT: Activity 11
	Thu. Jun 2	NO PRACTICALS today; study for today's test
5	Tue. Jun 7	Mechanics Module 3 Activities 2, 3, 12 [Preparation: Complete this form BEFORE practicals!] IYHT: Activity 14
6	Thu. Jun 9	Scrambling teams Teamwork module Ranking Activity [Preparation: read pages 1-6 of today's guide] Mechanics Module 3 Activities 8, 15 Mechanics Module 6 Activities 4 A-B IYHT: Module 6 Activity 4 C
7	Tue. Jun 14	Mechanics Module 4 Activities 1, 3 Mechanics Module 5 Activities 3, 4 IYHT: Module 4 Activity 4
8	Thu. Jun 16	Mechanics Module 5 Activities 5, 7, 14, 15 IYHT: Activity 16
9	Tue. Jun 21	Mechanics Module 6 Activities 3, 7 A-C, 8 IYHT: Activity 10
10	Thu. Jun 23	Oscillations Module Activities 2, 3, 4, 6 IYHT: Activity 5

PHY131 H1F Summer - Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Schedule

Section	Time	Group	Room	TA1	TA2
L5301	TR2-4	1A	MP125-A	Chao Zhuang	Catalina Gomez Sanchez
L5301	TR2-4	1B	MP125-B	Gabriello Presenza-Pitman	Ellen Dyer
L5101	TR4-6	2A	MP125-A	Ryan Vilim	David MacKenzie
L5101	TR4-6	2B	MP125-B	Ellen Dyer	Gabriello Presenza-Pitman
L5101	TR4-6	2C	MP125-C	Ardavan Darabiborojeni	Alireza Mashayekhi
L5201	TR8-10	3A	MP125-A	David MacKenzie	Ryan Vilim
L5201	TR8-10	3B	MP125-B	Catalina Gomez Sanchez	Chao Zhuang
L5201	TR8-10	3C	MP125-C	Alireza Mashayekhi	Ardavan Darabiborojeni