Department of Physics

Physics Lab Schedules: Fall 2025 (tentative)

PHY185: general physics (i) labs

For the summer semester schedule, please visit the Summer Physics Lab Schedule page

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PHY186: general physics (ii) labs

For the summer semester schedule, please visit the Summer Physics Lab Schedule page

Week	Room	Experiment
09/03-09/05	Pastore 101	No lab
09/08-09/12	Pastore 101	Lab 1: Standing Waves (string)
09/15-09/19	Pastore 101	Lab 2: Standing Waves (sound)
09/22-09/26	Pastore 101	Lab 3: Electric Field Mapping
09/29-10/03	Pastore 101	Lab 4:Capacitors
10/06-10/10	Pastore 101	Lab 5:Resistance and Resistivity
10/13-10/17	Pastore 101	No Lab
10/20-10/24	Pastore 101	Lab 6:Earth’s Magnetic Field
10/27-10/31	Pastore 101	Lab 7:Reflection and Refraction
11/03-11/07	N/A	No Lab
11/10-11/14	N/A	No Lab
11/17-11/21	Pastore 101	Lab 8: Lenses and Mirrors
11/24-11/28	N/A	No Lab-Thanksgiving Week
12/01-12/05	Pastore 101	Lab 9: Interference and Diffraction
12/08-12/10	Pastore 101	Makeup lab: Wheatstone Bridge

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PHY273: elementary physics (i) labs

For the summer semester schedule, please visit the Summer Physics Lab Schedule page

Week	Room	Experiment
09/03-09/05	N/A	No Lab
09/08-09/12	East 102	Intro /Statistics and Measurement
09/15-09/19	East 102	Lab 1: Motion in 1D:Free fall: Part 1
09/22-09/26	East 102	Lab 2:Part 2: Motion in 1D:Free fall: Part 2
09/29-10/03	East 102	Lab 3: Motion in 2D Part1:  Projectiles
10/06-10/10	East 102	Lab 4: Motion in 2D Part 2: Projectiles Analysis
10/13-10/17	East 102	Lab 5: Newton’s Laws of Motion
10/20-10/24	East 102	Lab 6: Conservation of Energy
10/27-10/31	East 102	Lab 7: Momentum: Collisions: Part 1
11/03-11/07	N/A	Lab 8: Momentum: Collisions: Part 2
11/10-11/14	N/A	No Lab-Veteran’s Day Week
11/17-11/21	East 102	Lab 10: Ballistic Pendulum
11/24-11/28	N/A	No Lab-Thanksgiving Week
12/01-12/05	East 102	Lab 11: Rotational Dynamics
12/08-12/10	East 102	Makeup lab: Simple Harmonic Motion and Hooke’s Law

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PHY274:elementary physics (ii) lab

For the summer semester schedule, please visit the Summer Physics Lab Schedule page

Week	Room	Experiment
09/03-09/05	N/A	No lab
09/08-09/12	East 201	Lab 1: Electric Charges
09/15-09/19	East 201	Lab 2: Simulations of Point Charges
09/22-09/26	East 201	Lab 3: Electric Field Mapping
09/29-10/03	East 201	Lab 4: Capacitance
10/06-10/10	East 201	Lab 5: Ohm’s Law
10/13-10/17	N/A	No Lab-Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples’ Day
10/20-10/24	East 201	Lab 6: Electron Beam in Magnetic Field Part 1
10/27-10/31	East 201	Lab 7: Electron Beam in Magnetic Field Part 2
11/03-11/07	East 201	Lab 8: Magnetic Field
11/10-11/14	N/A	No Lab-Veteran’s Day Week
11/17-11/21	East 201	Lab 9: Induction and the Transformer
11/24-11/28	N/A	No Lab-Thanksgiving Week
12/01-12/05	East 201	Lab 10: Resonant LC Circuit
12/08-12/10	East 201	Make-Up Lab( Induction)

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PHY275:elementary physics (iii) lab

For the summer semester schedule, please visit the Summer Physics Lab Schedule page

Week	Room	Experiment
09/03-09/05	Pastore 151	Lab 1:Introduction
09/08-09/12	Pastore 151	Lab 2: Thermal Expansion
09/15-09/19	Pastore 151	Lab 3: Calorimetry I
09/22-09/26	Pastore 151	Lab 4: Calorimetry II
09/29-10/03	Pastore 151	Lab 5: Ideal Gas Law
10/06-10/10	N/A	No Lab
10/13-10/17	Pastore 151	Lab 6: Simple Harmonic Motion
10/20-10/24	Pastore 151	Lab 7: Waves & Resonance
10/27-10/31	Pastore 151	Lab 8: Sound Waves
11/03-11/07	Pastore 151	Lab 9: Optics: Selection and Data collection
11/10-11/14	N/A	No Lab-Veteran’s Day Week
11/17-11/21	Pastore 151	Lab 10: Optics: Complete Data Analysis and Writing
11/24-11/28	N/A	No Lab-Thanksgiving Week
12/01-12/05	Pastore 151	Lab 11: Presentation
12/08-12/10	Pastore 151	Makeup Lab: Simple Pendulum

For the summer semester schedule, please visit the Summer Physics Lab Schedule page

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