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 * PHY252: Introductory Physics Laboratory II**

**Fall Semester, 2013,** toc
 * //Electricity, Magnetism, Optics, and Modern Physics// **
 * 1 Credit,** **Room: 1260 BPS**

=Announcements:=

**2013.12.01 There is a new version of the practical worksheet posted**.

2013.10.26 Rest of the semester labs are posted. 2013.10.13 Practical lab materials are up. Different lab for the week following. 2013.09.28 Saturday, 11:58 am There is a new version of the RC lab writeup 2013.09.14 Saturday, 2:49 pm There is a new version of the Ohm's Law lab writeup 2013.09.08 Don't forget to come to lab with printouts of: cover sheet and at least the Questions parts of the lab writeup. 2013.08.16 Please see the syllabus page for important first-week information 2013.08.10 Note: the lab manual will be available here, free of charge. =The Purpose of PHY252 lab=
 * 2013.09.14 ** There is a new cover sheet that includes a place to enter your section number.
 * 2013.09.09 ** You do not need to "join" this wiki...
 * 2013.09.08 ** Tablets or printouts of the lab writeup are encouraged. Portable computers...less encouraged, but okay. Phones may not be used.

The object this course is to reinforce the concepts developed in the first course (at MSU, PHY251) on how to make measurements of physical parameters and how to analyze and interpret them. If you haven’t taken a course equivalent to PHY251 contact your instructor for additional preparation that will be necessary before the first laboratory experiment. Another object of the course is to present concepts and applications of Electricity & Magnetism, Optical phenomena, and some Modern Physics. You will work in groups of two, make measurements, tabulate and graph your data, evaluate uncertainties in your measurements, analyze the results of your experiments, and answer the questions given in the laboratory manual for each experiment.

=Things you will need:=
 * **Laboratory Manual Course Pack.** //There is no course pack to purchase! See the syllabus page about the lab manual.//
 * **Calculator:** You will need trigonometric and logarithmic functions. Statistical functions might be useful, but they are not required.
 * **A USB stick:** The files on the computers are volatile...that means if the computer is restarted, they will have been erased. It is a good idea to have a USB stick inserted that you backup to periodically during the lab in case the computer crashes.
 * **Pens and a straightedge:** Pencils aren't allowed, ink is required.
 * **PHY252 on the web:** This wiki page is @http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/PHY252

=How to learn important information:= Sometimes it may be necessary to tell all students something. There are two ways:
 * This page will update under the **Announcements** heading above.
 * If you follow @phy252 on Twitter, the same information will be sent out. If you want to know twitter basics, here's a good link @http://ow.ly/6f5dh

=How to get around the website:=

Links to the wiki pages are on the left of this (and every) page. This is the @welcome page and will include any announcements during the term. The @syllabus page shows you what lab happens during what week and describes the grading...it also tells you how to do well. @Contacts provides you with contact information for the TAs as well as the professor in charge of the labs. The lab @sections page lists the times, locations, and TAs for each of the PHY252 sections. Computers reminds you of some things from PHY251, including use of the computers and uncertainties. The @tough stuff page has the rules on making up labs, what happens if you plagiarize (please don't do that).

//Last updated: August 8, 2013//