Your
Lab Section: ______________
Your
Lab Instructor:
__________________________
Office:
____________
E-mail:
________________________
Office
Phone: ________________
Office
Hours: ______________________
______________________
______________________
Attendance
Policy:
You
are expected to attend every lab. If you
are unable to attend lab, you must notify your lab instructor BEFORE you miss
in order to make arrangements to attend another lab sections. Your lab instructor must give you permission
to attend another lab section; you will not receive credit if you just show up
to another lab section. You will not be
able to make-up a lab meeting after the end of the week. You will be allowed to drop your lowest lab
score.
Grades:
Every week your lab instructor will collect and
grade your lab manual.
Lab Activities:
*Lab will meet 12 weeks. Each week we will complete one or more lab
activities. Each lab meeting is worth 20
points. Your lowest lab score will be dropped
resulting in a total of 220 points possible.
*Note* Change is the number of labs graded due to closure
of campus for winter weather.
Lab Report:
You will be required to write 2 full lab
reports worth 30 points each.
Total points possible: 280
Grade Cutoffs:
90% - A 80% - B 70% - C 60% - D Below 60% - F
College Physics Lab is an on-hour credit course and the lab instructor assigns the grade.
Inclement
Weather Policy:
Unless classes have been
officially canceled by the UA, students are expected to attend all lab
meetings. If the student lives someplace
they feel would be dangerous to travel to the University from, they should call
and inform their instructor or leave a message for their instructor with the
physics department. They will then be
expected to make up the lab, at a time arranged with their instructor. You are responsible for making the
decision to travel in bad weather. We never want any student to put him or
herself at risk to attend class.
Academic Dishonesty:
Cheating
will not be tolerated. Anyone caught
cheating or turning in work that is not their own will receive a zero for the
assignment. All lab reports are to be
your own work.
|
Week |
Dates |
Activities
|
|
1 |
Jab
12 |
Pre-TestActivity
1: Playing With Charge |
|
2 |
Jan
19 |
Activity
2: Electrostatic devices |
|
3 |
Jan
26 1 |
*Cancelled due to winter
weather. |
|
4 |
Feb.
2 |
Activity
4: Exploring Circuits |
|
5 |
Feb.
9 |
Activity
6: Measuring the Permittivity of Free Space & Lab Assignment 1 |
|
6 |
Feb.
16 |
Activity
7: Series and Parallel Circuits |
|
7 |
Feb.
23 |
Activity
8: Measuring an RC Time Constant |
|
8 |
Mar.
2 |
Activity
9: Exploring Magnetism Activity
10: Introduction to Magnetism |
|
9 |
Mar.
9 |
Activity
11: Earth’s magnetic Field Lab
Assignment 2 |
|
10 |
Mar.
16 |
Spring Break – No labs all week |
|
11 |
Mar.
23 |
Activity
12: Speaker Construction |
|
12 |
Mar.
30 |
Activity
13: Motor Construction Activity
15: Electromagnetism |
|
13 |
Apr.
6 |
Activity
16: Light – Plane Surfaces |
|
14 |
Apr.
13 |
Activity
17: Light – Curves Surfaces |
|
15 |
Apr.
20 |
Evaluations and Post-test |
|
16 |
Apr.
27 |
No
Labs |
|
|
May
1 |
Dead
Day |