LAB CLASSES for ALL first year physics courses, Term 1, 2013

For the courses PHYS0001, PHYS1111, PHYS1149, PHYS1121 and PHYS1131:

Every student takes a 2 hour laboratory class each week at the time slot chosen on enrolment.

• For PHYS1121 and PHYS1131
  During Week 1 of session you should watch the safety induction on your Moodle course and complete the Quiz. You need to score 11/12 on the Quiz to obtain access to the Laboratory Prework.

• PHYS0001, PHYS1111 and PHYS1149 laboratory classes start in Week 3.
  You should go to the First Year Physics Laboratory, Room LG01, on the Lower Ground Floor of the Old Main Building, at the time given on your timetable.

• Laboratory Exemption for Repeating Students:
  If you are a repeating student you may apply for a laboratory exemption. Your previous lab grade will determine whether you qualify for a laboratory exemption; you need a mark of 15/20 or above. A form for this request can be collected from outside the First Year Physics Laboratory, or can be downloaded from here: Lab Exemption form for the Repeating Students/(pdf version). Please complete the form and email to firstyear@phys.unsw.edu.au or return to the laboratory staff before 10 February 2013.
  
  It is an expectation that you will spend the time you would have otherwise spent in lab studying physics. To keep your lab exempt status you need to show the Teaching Assistant (in Room LG02, OMB) physics problems that you have been working on at least three times during the session. The Teaching Assistant will have a record of your details. This does not exempt you from the WebAssign quizzes.

• Laboratory manuals are needed for all classes, and can be purchased from UNSW bookshop or can be downloaded from Moodle/Blackbord. You can collect your HOMEWORK PROBLEMS booklet from the First Year Physics Laboratory once you have obtained the laboratory manual from UNSW bookshop (after you purchase the Laboratory Manual take this to the First Year Physics Laboratory, Rm LG01, Lower Ground Floor, Old Main Building, where you may pick up the Physics Homework Problems booklet).
  
  
• If you have problems with your laboratory and problem solving class times please see Ranji Balalla, First Year Physics Teaching Unit, Room LG03, Old Main Building.
  
  
  
  
• UNSW TV
  
  Hands on Physics
  
  Physics
  
  
  
• First Year Physics Safety Induction
  
  
  
• Laboratory Introduction
  Watch Lab Introduction video before you start your first laboratory session.
  
  
  
• Laboratory Experiments - Videos for PHYS1111, PHYS0001, PHYS1149: available on your Blackboard course
  
  
  
• Laboratory Experiments - Videos for PHYS1121 Physics 1A and PHYS1131 Higher Physics 1A:
  
  Introductory Experimentation
  
  Pendulum
  
  Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies
  
  Cart on an Inclined Plane
  
  Collisions and Car Crashing
  
  Linear Oscillatory Motion
  
  Specific and Latent Heat
  
  Rotational Inertia
  
  Standing Wave on a String
  
  Ideal Gas Law
  
  
  
  
  
• Laboratory Experiments - Videos for PHYS1221 Physics 1B and PHYS1231 Higher Physics 1B:
  
  Electric Charge: Coulomb's Law
  
  Electrostatic Field Plotting
  
  Capacitors
  
  Magnetic Fields and The "Slinky" Coil
  
  Diffraction Gratings
  
  The Photoelectric Effect
  
  Interference in Thin Films and Spectra of Different Light Sources
  
  Microwave Optics