A. Required Text and Materials

Text: Laboratory Manual for Physics 232 – Revision B, available from the Physics and Astronomy Club.

You may purchase the manual from Club representatives who will bring them to the lab.

You will also need a Lab Notebook (Bound, square-ruled with numbered pages, not spiral bound), a calculator with statistical functions, a clear ruler, and a glue stick or tape.

B. Class Procedures

1. Lab Notebooks

Each student must record all laboratory work in his/her laboratory notebook. Write in your lab book neatly and in ink AS YOU DO THE WORK. All data should be recorded in data tables, neatly and in INK, together with appropriate units and relevant measurement uncertainty. Number the pages in your lab book (if not already numbered), and prepare a table of contents. Answer any questions asked in the write-up and prepare any required plots. Plots can be pasted in to the notebook.

Describe your procedures clearly and in complete English sentences. Grammar and spelling are important! Diagrams should be included. Diagrams may be drawn in pencil. If you make a mistake, draw a single line through the incorrect material. Do not

erase anything and do not tear pages out of your book.

2. Lab Quizzes and Final Exam

There will be lab quizzes most weeks on the preparatory reading and any preparatory calculations called for on the results sheets.

There will be a lab final during the last week of classes. HINT: You will do the Laboratory Final individually with open Lab Manual and lab notebook. A well-written lab notebook will be of enormous help to you on this exam!

3. Lab Report and Notebook Submissions

You will do the laboratory exercises in groups of two (I may change group assignments during the semester). Assume that a lab team consists of person A and person B. These team members will submit formal reports’ lab notebooks, or results sheets and graphs according to the following schedule:

Experiment Submissions

1 A and B submit lab notebooks

2 A and B submit notebooks and results sheets with plots

3 A submits formal report + lab notebook; B submits lab notebook

4 A and B submit notebooks and results sheets with plots

5 B submits formal report + lab notebook; A submits lab notebook

6 A submits formal report + lab notebook; B submits lab notebook

7 B submits formal report + lab notebook; A submits lab notebook

8 A and B submit notebooks and results sheets with plots

9 A submits formal report + lab notebook; B submits lab notebook

10 B submits formal report + lab notebook; A submits lab notebook

11 A and B submit notebooks and results sheets with plots

12 A submits formal report + lab notebook; B submits lab notebook

13 B submits formal report + lab notebook; A submits lab notebook

The formal report should be completed after discussion and collaboration with the other member of the group, and according to the instructions in the lab manual. Graphs in the formal write-up may be completed by hand, or using a computer, and inserted into the write-up. Formal reports are to be turned in to the Physics 232 – Section 4 file drawer on the first floor near the elevators by 5:00 p.m. on the Monday after the lab. No exceptions. Lab notebooks are to be turned in with the formal reports

4. Registration and Attendance

(a) Attendance is required. Also, you MUST REMAIN IN THE LECTURE class through the last midterm in order to remain in the lab. (That is, you must actually take the 2nd mid-term. You must attend and actively participate in the lecture class, including turning in homework, up through the 2nd mid-term, or else you will be required to drop the lab)

(b) If you cannot meet your regular lab section for some compelling reason, it is possible - and YOUR responsibility - to

arrange a makeup in a different lab section. You will need to obtain consent of the instructors in both sections and to make your

peace with your lab partner. (This should happen infrequently and, if possible, be arranged ahead of time. The lab sections are all crowded, so it is difficult to arrange to attend another section.)

C. GRADING:

The lab final will count 25% of total credit. Quizzes will count 15%. The lab reports and notebook evaluations will constitute the remaining 60%.

Your grade will be based on the fraction of the total credit you receive according to the following table:

Minimum overall scores for each grade:

A 92%	A- 90%	B+ 88%
B 80%	B- 78%	C+ 75%
C 67%	C- 65%	D+ 63%
D 53%	D- 50% <50% >	F <50%

The lowest quiz score and the lowest non-formal write-up score will be dropped. This allows you to miss one lab without

penalty. If you miss more than one lab, you will need to do a make-up in another section, or take an Incomplete, or reduced grade.

At end of semester the lab coordinator will compare grading among the sections and make any adjustments needed to assure

uniformity across the sections. The instructor reserves the right to raise your grade as much as 2/3 letter grade if your scores show continuous, substantial, improvement throughout the semester.

Cheating and Plagiarism: The purpose of this lab course is for you to gain firsthand experience. If you are found to be cheating and/or plagiarizing you will receive no credit for the work in question and, if I deem appropriate, more drastic measures may be taken. Please refer to the University Bulletin for a clear discourse on this subject and the Universities policy, which will be followed.

D. Lab Schedule is attached. (click the link)

E. Learning Objectives

Learn concepts in electricity and magnetism from hands-on laboratory work. Become familiar with the use of standard instrumentation such as digital multimeters and oscilloscopes to measure voltages, currents, resistance, frequency, and phase shift. Become more familiar with graphical and calculational data analysis and the treatment of uncertainties.

NOTE: In deference to your classmates and me, you must turn off all cell phones, beepers and other distracting devices before entering the lab.

Updated 27.08.2003