PHY151H1F Fall 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.

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: MP328, Phone 416-978-6674,
Daniel James, Course Professor.  Office: MP1014, Phone 416-946-3736.  

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:

Acorn Section	Time	Group Code	TA1 (marks activity booklets)	TA2 (marks problem sets)	Drop Box
PRA0101	T9am-12noon	T9	Li Ern Chern	Dominique Soutiere	10
PRA0201	T1-4pm	T1	Paul Godin	Matt Smart	11
PRA0301	W9am-12noon	W9	Chris Garner	Feng Yi Xie	13
PRA0401	W2-5pm	W2	Robert Les	Jake Gordon	14
PRA5101	W5-8pm	W5	Kunna Li	Erfan Shalchian Tabrizi	15
PRA0501	R9am-12noon	R9	Kristof Bognar	Shayan Gheidi	17
PRA0601	R1-4pm	R1	MattheW Badali	Leonardo Uribe Castano	19
PRA0701	F9am-12noon	F9	Katherine Cosburn	Erik Lutsch	20

Here is the Practicals Marking Rubric .
Here is the PHY151 Help Centre Hours
Here is a link to the PHY151 Course Web-Site
Here is a link to the PHY131/151 Physics Drop In Centre (run by Victoria College, but open to all U of T students)

Practical Schedule (Subject to Change)
Practical	Date	Topics, Activities
	Sep 13-16	NO PRACTICALS Practicals Introduction and Pre-course Diagnostic Test in class Friday Sep.16
1	Sep 20-23	Practice Problem Set 1 - To be done in Practicals, not for marks - Solutions Problem Set 1  -  Solutions If you are new to programming in python, to prepare for today's activities, you should watch the 19-minute Introduction Video . You can also try the Tutorial Part 1 from our department's Computers in Physics page. Practicals Activities: Uncertainty in Physical Measurements Module 1 - Python Version Mechanics Module 1, Activities 6, 11, 12 [Activity 13 if you have time.]
2	Sep 27-30	Practice Problem Set 2 - To be done in Practicals, not for marks - Solutions Problem Set 2   -  Solutions Practicals Activities: Mechanics Module 2, Activities 5, 7, 8 (and Activity 6 if you have time) Relativity Module, Activities 15 and 3
3	Oct 4 - 7	Practice Problem Set 3 - To be done in Practicals, not for marks  -  Solutions Problem Set 3   -  Solutions Split into pairs (or individual) for Practicals Activities: Computational Module 1, Activities A, B, C, D (and Activity E if you have time) Note for 2017: NOT ENOUGH TIME!
4	Oct 11 - 14	Practice Problem Set 4 - To be done in Practicals, not for marks   -  Solutions Problem Set 4    -    Solutions Practicals Activities: Uncertainty Module 2 (all) + Mechanics Module 2 Activity 14 only (and Activity 15 if you have time)  Technical Specifications for the Digital Caliper
5	Oct 18 - 21	Practice Problem Set 5 - To be done in Practicals, not for marks - Solutions Problem Set 5    -   Solutions Split into pairs (or individual) for Practicals Activities: Projectile Motion With Python, Activities A&B, Questions 1-6.  (Question 7 if you have time)
	Oct 25 - 28	No Practicals This Week Mid-term test Oct. 26 evening 7-9pm Midterm Questions   -    Midterm Solutions     -    Detailed Marking Scheme in colour  - Mark Histogram
6	Nov 1-4	Scrambling Teams Today Practice Problem Set 6  - To be done in Practicals, not for marks   -   Solutions Problem Set 6     -     Solutions Practicals Activities: Mechanics Module 5, Activities 5-8  (Activity 9 if you have time)
7	Nov. 9-15	(Tuesday falls 1 week behind) Practice Problem Set 7   - To be done in Practicals, not for marks   -   Solutions Problem Set 7      -    Solutions Practicals Activities: Uncertainty Module 3, Mechanics Module 5 Activities 14, 15, 16, 17 (Activities 3 and 11 if you have time)
8	Nov 16-22	Practice Problem Set 8 - To be done in Practicals, not for marks   -   Solutions Problem Set 8     -     Solutions Split into pairs (or individual) for Practicals Activities: Collisions With VPython
9	Nov 23-29	Practice Problem Set 9 - To be done in Practicals, not for marks   -   Solutions Problem Set 9     -     Solutions Practicals Activities: Mechanics Module 6 Activities 13, 6, 7 and 8 [Activity 9 if you have time.]
10	Nov 30 - Dec 6	Practice Problem Set 10 - To be done in Practicals, not for marks   -   Solutions Problem Set 10    -   Solutions  (original scan with third problem, but with a typo in the solution for the first problem) Practicals Activities: Mechanics Module 3, Activity 17 (flying pig) If you have time: Mechanics Module 6, Activity 2 Practicals Evaluations today!