Syllabus for 1401 and 1402 Physics Labs

Lab Coordinator: Doug Coyne
Teaching Assistants:Information can be found at the above web site.

Student with Disabilities: Students who need an accommodation based on disability should arrange to meet with the lab coordinator to determine what arrangements are necessary to accommodate your needs.

Lab Attendance:

• You are to attend your scheduled lab time and assigned room
• If a lab is missed, see the Missed Lab section below for your options
• Multiple absences due to chronic medical problems will be handled on an individual basis
• If you are aware that you will be absent from a lab due to a University Excused Absence, you must notify your lab instructor or the lab coordinator a week ahead of time and arrange to complete the lab in some other section during the week in which the lab is assigned. Notification after the event voids the excused absence as outlined in the rules and regulations for excused absences in the Undergraduate catalog

Tardiness: Tardiness is discouraged and will be handled in the following manner

• Within 15 minutes of the start of the lab, allowed to join your group.
• Between 15 minutes and 30 minutes, allowed to join your group but with a 10 points penalty
• Over 30 minutes late, you will not be allowed to perform the lab
• Chronic tardiness will be addressed by the lab coordinator and brought to the attention of your course instructor.

Lab Report Requirements

• You are required to bring the lab write up to each lab. The Physics department will not photocopy the pages for you.
• All lab reports are to be completed in pencil. Pages completed in pen and with numerous marked out areas is subject to a penalty. All lab reports, unless otherwise notified during the lab, are due at the end of the lab period.
• The data gather for the lab is a group effort. Calculations and answers to questions are expected to be individual work. We encourage individual work on all parts of the lab for the calculations and answers; it is in this area that the majority of the questions for the lab exam will be taken.

Grade Policy:
Lab report grade consists of
40% Active participation in the lab exercise

Deductions will be made for
• Not having you own calculator and relying on someone else to do the calculations
• Not having the lab manual
• Answering or making phone calls
• Tardiness
• Performing some other task not related to the lab exercise. (i.e. surfing the web, course work, needlepoint, etc,)

60% Content of your lab report.

• Shown Calculations
• Analysis
• Graphs
• Problems and Questions
• Data

Grade reported to course instructor
The lowest lab grade is dropped, and the lab report average taken from the remaining lab report grades.