PHY180 Fall 2018 Practicals

Welcome! The Practicals of your PHY180 course 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. No other equipment (other than a pen) is needed.

Your lab grade is calculated as: 10% quizzes, 10% measurement project, 20% formal lab report, 60% weekly activities.
Note: if you arrive more than 20 minutes late (i.e. 9:30) for a practical you will be marked absent and get a zero for that week's activities unless you have extenuating circumstances.

A quick user guide of the Capstone Software we will be using in class can be found here.

Practical Schedule

Practical

Week

Topics, Activities

1

Sept. 11-13

Uncertainty

2

Sept. 18-20

Kinematics

For Activity 3, you can find the Python fitting program and the sample data file here.

3

Sept. 25-27

Friction

4

Oct. 2-4

Collisions

5

Oct. 9-11

Angular Momentum

6

Oct. 16-18

Simple Harmonic Motion Activity 1

For Activity 1, you can find the Python plotting program and the sample data file here.

7

Oct. 23-25

Simple Harmonic Motion Activity 2

Python: ODE integration

For the ODE integration activity, you can find the Python program here.

8

Oct. 30 - Nov. 1

Rotation

9

Nov. 6-8

Measurement Project

10

Nov. 13-15

Torque

11

Nov. 20-22

Python: Chaos

You can find the Python program here.

12

Nov. 27-29

Python: Kepler's Laws

You can find the Python program here.

Day

Time

TA1

TA2

Tuesday

9-11

Harry Li

Chun An Tsai

Tuesday

12-2

Euan Joly-Smith

Rainni Chen

Wednesday

9-11

David DeMarco

Nicholas Zomparelli

Wednesday

1-3

Xin Song

Bianca Ciungu

Wednesday

4-6

Andras Lindenmaier

Tae-Hyoun Park

Thursday

12-2

Shoma Yamanouchi

Antoine Sarracini