PHY 2822 Physics Laboratory II (2009)

Please come to Lab 213 to pick up your Lab manual in the first week of semester.
If you did not take PHY 2811, get a copy of "Short notes on error analysis".
Use Excel files in download area to practise.
Read also the file "Report Writing" in download area.
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The first lab is scheduled in February as shown below & on the first page of lab manual.

This lab course is designed to help students develop basic skills used in experimental physics,
including data acquisition, graph plotting, data analysis, error analysis and report writing.
The experiments also illustrate the principles taught in the physics courses at the 2000-level.
Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

Exp. 1 (Feb. 16 - 18)	Resistivity of metal and semiconductor
Exp. 2 (Feb. 23 - 25)	Resistance of tungsten filament in a lamp and black body radiation
Exp. 3 (March 2 - 4)	Hall effect
Exp. 4 (March 9 - 11)	Verification of Ampere's law
Exp. 5 (March 16 - 18)	e/m ratio of electron
Exp. 6 (March 23 - 25)	Verification of Faraday's law
Exp. 7 (March 30 - April 1)	Measurement of half-life of a radioactive source
------ (April 6 - 8)	Short Equipment Test

PHY 2822A, Monday 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm, SC 213 & 215
PHY 2822B, Tuesday 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm, SC 213 & 215
PHY 2822C, Wednesday 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm, SC 213 & 215
* TAs will be on duty at 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm for the lab sessions.

Group A: Cheung Hoi-cheung, Office: SC 115A, Tel: 2609-6303, Email: hccheung@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
Group A: Ling Chi-yeung*, Office: SC G12, Tel: 2609-6259 , Email: cyling@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
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Group B: Chang Kwong-wa, Office: SC G12, Tel: 2609-6259, Email: kwchang@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
Group B: Tam Yiu-ho*, Office: SC 113, Tel: 2609-6370, Email: yhtam@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
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Group C: Wong Chi-ching, Office: SC 224, Tel: 2609-6314, Email: ccfwong@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
Group C: Jackie Wong Koon-kei*, Office: SC 113, Tel: 2609-6370, Email: kkjwong@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
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* On duty from 2:00pm to 6:00pm

Group A: Leung Ching-yee, Office: SC 224, Tel: 2609-6314 , Email: cyleung2@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
Group B: Chen Xiaocong, Office: SC 114, Tel: 2609-6302, Email: xcchen@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
Group C: Zhou Minjie (周民杰), Office: SC 114, Tel: 2609-6302, Email: mzhou@phy.cuhk.edu.hk

available in Download Area

L. Kirkup, Data Analysis with Excel, (Q180.55S7K57 2002) (highly recommended)

John R. Taylor, An introduction to error analysis: the study of uncertainties in physical measurements (QA275.T38 1982)

L. Lyons, A practical guide to Data analysis for physical science students (QC33L9 1991)

D.C. Baird, “Experimentation” (QC39B17 1995)

Learn basic skills used in experimental physics.

Learn basic instrumentation in physics lab.

Learn how to collect, analyze, handle (& plot) data by Excel and estimate errors by Excel.

Learn how to write a short report.

Learn how an experiment is designed.

Learn skills in problem solving, team work, computer usage, and planning in lab.

Use experiments to illustrate the principles taught in the physics courses at the 2000-level.

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/. With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures. For assignments in the form of a computer-generated document that is principally text-based and submitted via the plagiarism detection engine CUPIDE, the statement, in the form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon students' uploading of the soft copy of the assignment. Assignments without the receipt will not be graded by teachers.

PHY 2822 Physics Laboratory II (2009)
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