Mandatory Laboratory Sessions

Requirement

Laboratory attendance and participation is mandatory. You are required to read the laboratory manual for each week’s laboratory experiment before you enter the laboratory to carry out the experiment. Each laboratory begins with a simple closed book quiz.

Information About the Quiz

On the class website a set of 10 questions have been prepared for each experiment. These are identified by the Monday date on which that experiment begins as well as by the experiment name. By reading the experiment manual for that week you will be able to answer the 10 questions. The Laboratory Assistant will select at random three of the ten questions. They will be on the board at the start of your laboratory period. You will be given a blank answer sheet upon which you will put your class pin number and password letters along with your answers to the three questions. This sheet will be my evidence that you participated in the laboratory.

“Missing” Laboratory

If in advance you know you will miss your scheduled laboratory and have an acceptable reason, you should in advance go to the physics office requesting rescheduling into another laboratory. If accepted the physics office will give you written permission to attend another laboratory. Give the written permission to the new Laboratory Assistant. NOTE: THERE ARE NO MAKE-UP LABORATORY SESSIONS!

Laboratory Grades

Each laboratory experiment is graded out of 100. Of these 100 points 30 are given as 10 points for each of the three quiz questions. The remaining 70 points are for your participation in carrying out the experiment. The ways in which you will get less than 70 points are:

• Leaving early, before you team has completed the experiment.
• Sleeping though the experiment being carried out by your team.
• Not acting as an involved member of the team.

Note: The assessment of a reduced “70”-point score is the sole responsibility of the laboratory assistant.

Note: Additional methods of getting less than 70 points will be added to the list as students discover them.

PHYS 2220 students will have 10 weeks of laboratory. This corresponds to an accumulated maximum of 1000 points. These 1000 points correspond to 25% OF YOUR PHYS 2220 grade.

A STUDENT WHO MISSES MORE THAN 3 WEEKS OF LABORATORY FAILS THE PHYX 2220 CLASS!