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Course Outlines

Summer 2025 - PHYS 133 LA01

Physics Laboratory II (1)

Class Number: 3898

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    May 12 – Aug 8, 2025: Thu, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    PHYS 132 or 140 or ENSC 120 (no substitutions), with a minimum grade of C-. Corequisite: PHYS 102 or 121 or 126.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Introduction to experimental physics with an emphasis on measurement and experimental design. Includes elementary experiments in electromagnetism and optics designed to support and enrich conceptual learning. Students with credit for PHYS 141 may not take PHYS 133 for further credit. Quantitative.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course involves 9 4-hour lab sessions.
 
Lab experiments will cover:
·      Comparing experimental data to theoretical predictions using a variety of data analysis techniques, 
·      Planning and executing experiments to test theoretical predictions
 
The concepts that the experiments are based on include: 
·      Resistance and capacitance, 
·      Electric potential and field, 
·      DC and AC circuits, 
·      Magnetic fields and magnetic forces, and 
·      Optics: refraction, image formation and properties of light.

Grading

  • TBA 100%

NOTES:

The course is currently scheduled for nine 4 hr lab periods. The first, introductory lab period reviews material covered in PHYS 132 and introduces students to equipment that will be used in PHYS 133. 

Students must complete all labs to complete the course.

$5.41 lab notebook fee will be required.

The aforementioned grading scheme and acommpanying information is tentative and subject to change at the professor's discretion.

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOK: 
MEASUREMENTS AND THEIR UNCERTAINTIES : A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MODERN ERROR ANALYSIS, HUGHES/Oxford

$5.41 lab notebook fee will be required.

 

 

REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Department Undergraduate Notes:

Students who cannot write their exam during the course's scheduled exam time must request accommodation from their instructor in writing, clearly stating the reason for this request, within one week of the final exam schedule being posted.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

At SFU, you are expected to act honestly and responsibly in all your academic work. Cheating, plagiarism, or any other form of academic dishonesty harms your own learning, undermines the efforts of your classmates who pursue their studies honestly, and goes against the core values of the university.

To learn more about the academic disciplinary process and relevant academic supports, visit: 


RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION

Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the term are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.