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Important Information

Please note that the files below are in portable document format and require Acrobat Reader.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the physics laboratories, please address them to Dr. James E. Parks, Director of Undergraduate Physics Laboratories. He can be reached at (865) 974-8952, or jeparks@utk.edu. His office is located in Room 404 of the Nielsen Physics Building.

NOTE: The Laboratory Manual for Physics 137-138, Physics 221-222, and Physics 231-232 is Contemporary Introductory Physics Experiments by James E. Parks, Hayden-McNeil Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7380-3083-8 and is available at the UT Book and Supply Store. The manual should be purchased BEFORE attending lab.

Experiments and Resources

• Cenco-Overbeck Electric Fields Experiment
• Electric Fields Graph Paper #1
• Electric Fields Graph Paper #2
• Ohm's Law I Data Sheet
• Ohm's Law II Excel Spreadsheet

Spring 2013 Physics Lab Schedules

• Summer 2013 Schedule for Physics Laboratory Room 508
• Summer 2013 Schedule for Physics Laboratory Room 510
• Summer 2013 Composite Lab Schedule
• Summer 2013 Physics 221 Schedule of Experiments
• Summer 2013 Physics 222 Schedule of Experiments
• Summer 2013 Physics 231 Schedule of Experiments
• Summer 2013 Physics 232 Schedule of Experiments

Modern Physics Lab

Physics Tutorial Center [Schedule]

Other Information

• TA Schedule Form
• Laboratory Policy Regarding Repeating a Course
• TA Laboratory Set-Up Manual
• Guidelines for Laboratory Set-Up Assistants
• Teaching Assistants' Manual
• TA Summer Employment Policy (.pdf)
• Physics Lecture Demonstrations