Welcome to the Physics Introductory Lab Webpage!

Our Mission

The Physics Introductory Lab Office strives to provide a quality hands-on experience to expose students to a variety of basic experiments in Physics. Our goal is to complement and reinforce the lectures with a laboratory experience that will:

foster student learning

demonstrate basic Physics principles

illustrate the experimental nature of Physics

assist students in gaining a physical understanding of the world

promote cooperation and group work

practice literacy skills related to reporting scientific inquiry

encourage independent thinking

and

develop an understanding of the scientific method as problem-solving applicable in a variety of situations.

The Website

We hope that this website will assist students searching for information related to the labs and provide one more avenue to keep communication going to make our efforts to improve the labs more effective. If you are looking for information that you cannot find on this website, please contact us.

Latest News

Lab Start Dates for Spring 2008

Weekly Schedule of Labs for the Semester

2 new graduate students joined the Physics Department in the January! And two undergraduate students joined our crew of student workers. Welcome to our Department!

Congratulations to our student worker Jane Chime, who graduated December 2007.

UConn Physics Olympiad - what a great time! For high school students in Connecticut. Check it out!