Getting Started

You will need the Physics Laboratory Manual (PHY140Y and PHY180H1F/182H1S) and the Physics Laboratory Notebook. The manual and Notebook are available as a shrink-wrapped package in the University Textbook store.

You should read the beginning section called General Information in the Physics Laboratory Manual.

The two-week cycle of PHY140Y labs starts on the SECOND week of term. For the first few weeks all PHY140Y labs will take place in MP (2nd floor, undergraduate wing). At the Friday lecture of the first week, you will be given most of the information you will need.  By the end of the first week of term you must know the lab section that you will attend.

The lab sections are denoted by P0x1y, where x denotes the day of the week you have chosen, and y denotes week 1 or 2 of the lab’s two week cycle - the first week of term is week 1, and the labs start in week 2 (see the Schedule for the year). You will attend the lab on alternate weeks on your chosen weekday which will be one of:

Mondays 2-5             :     P0111 or P0112

Wednesdays 2 - 5 pm   : P0311 or P0312

Thursdays 1 - 4 pm        : P0411 or P0412