Potential Mapping

PHY152

Winter 2014 Practicals Pilot

Welcome! The Practicals part of your PHY152 courses will involve problem solving, hands-on activities and team-work. What you do in Practicals will be directly related to what is going on in class and will help you on the tests and exam. Practicals are meant to replace both laboratories and tutorials.

Light Clock

 

People

 

Jason Harlow, Practicals Coordinator. Office: MP121-B, Phone 416-946-4071,

Matthew Badali, Practicals Instructor.  Office: MP410, Phone 416-978-8944

Ken Nurse, Practicals Instructor. Office: MP422, Phone: 416-978-2767

Young-June Kim, Course Professor.  Office: MP084, Phone: 416-978-7868

April Seeley, Course Administrator. Office: MP129, Phone 416-946-0531,

Lilian Leung, Phil Scolieri, Practicals Technologists. Office: MP127.

 

Practical Schedule

Students attend one 3-hour practical every week: Tuesdays 1-4 in MP125-C.

Practical

Date

Topics, Activities

 

Jan 7

NO PRACTICALS

1

Jan 14

Fluids

2

Jan 21

Electrostatics

3

Jan 28

Introduction to Circuits

4

Feb 4

Electric Potential, Electric Field

5

Feb 11

Continuing Electric Field from last time - Preparing for Formal Report
    Reading Week

6

Feb 25

Scrambling teams

Simple Harmonic Motion, Pendulum

7

Mar 4

Traveling Waves, Sinusoidal Waves

8

Mar 11

Formal Report due today to drop box #44
Sound Waves

9

Mar 18

Young's Double Slit

10

Mar 25

Special Relativity - The Light Clock, Time Dilation, Length Contraction
Activity 15 Applet

Activity 6 Applet


Note about applets: In order to run these old applets, you may have to reduce your security settings to "Medium" in Java.  See http://www.java.com/en/download/help/jcp_security.xml


Apr 1

NO PRACTICALS

 

Here are the components and their weights:

  1. Notebook Mark 1 (0% of course). After the first Practical the lab books will be collected and marked. However, this mark will not count towards your Practical mark. Instead it is intended to make our standards and requirements clear to you.
  2. Notebook Marks 2 through 10 (20% of the course). 
  3. Formal Report (5% of course).

Here is the Marking Rubric for the notebooks for each week.