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PHY224H1F - FALL
Practical Physics I

Official description

Develops the core practical experimental and computational skills necessary to do Physics.  Students tackle simple physics questions involving mathematical models, computational simulations and solutions, experimental measurements, data and uncertainty analysis

Prerequisite
PHY131H1/PHY151H1, PHY132H1/PHY152H1, (MAT135H1,MAT136H1)/MAT137Y1/MAT157Y1
Co-requisite
PHY231H1/PHY250H1/PHY252H1/PHY254H1/PHY256H1
Recommended preparation
n.a.
Textbook
                            ['On-line Documents:', '- Python tutorials, see Quercus page', '- Computational exercises:  see Quercus page', '- Experiments and exercises guide sheets:  see Quercus page']
                        
Breadth requirement
BR=5
Distribution requirement
DR=SCI

Additional information

Background:  No computational experience is required.  Students should be familiar with data and file manipulation.

The first half of the course is dedicated to learning programming in Python.  In the second half students do experimental work and apply programming to data analysis.

course title
PHY224H1F - FALL
session
fall
year of study
2nd year
time and location
72P: LEC0101: M3-6, F11-2 or LEC0201: TR9-12 or LEC0301: TR1-4 Students/TAs: Room information available on ACORN (https://www.acorn.utoronto.ca/) Instructors: Room information available in the LSM Portal (https://lsm.utoronto.ca/lsm_portal)
coordinator
instructors