Physics 202
Laboratory
Labs begin on 29 January, 2007
Lab Sections meeting in 3314 Chamberlin.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | |
| 7:45 | ||||
| 8:50 |
Lecture
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Lecture
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| 9:55 | ||||
| 11:00 |
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303
Eisch |
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310
Phillips |
| 12:05 |
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307
Barnes |
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| 1:20 | ||||
| 2:25 |
304
Rivard |
311
Falkowski |
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| 3:30 |
302
Gao |
308
Rivard |
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| 4:35 | ||||
| 5:40 | ||||
| 7:05 |
|
305
Gao |
309
Zhang |
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| 8:10 |
Lab Sections meeting in 3310 Chamberlin
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | |
| 7:45 | ||||
| 8:50 |
Lecture
|
Lecture
|
||
| 9:55 | ||||
| 11:00 |
323
Dally |
329
Eisch |
||
| 12:05 |
321
Falkowski |
326
Hodis |
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| 1:20 | ||||
| 2:25 |
330
Dally |
|||
| 3:30 |
322
Barnes |
324
Hodis |
327
Hodis |
|
| 4:35 | ||||
| 5:40 | ||||
| 7:05 |
325
Zhang |
|
331
Phillips |
|
| 8:10 |
Please come prepared for the lab: read the laboratory manual for the experiment for that week, and in your lab notebook, write your answers to the Prediction and Method questions from the Physics 202 Laboratory Manual. Occasionally, there will be a quiz in the lab. All the work for the lab needs to be completed during the lab hours. You must keep a lab notebook to jot down notes and record your measurements.
If you do not complete a lab you will be assigned a zero for it. You must complete at least 10 out of these 11 labs to pass this course, irrespective of your performance in other portions of this course.
A portion of your lab grade will be based on your lab reports. You will be randomly assigned one lab by your TA. During the exam weeks there is no scheduled laboratory, but you are to write a formal technical report on the assigned lab using your notes. The report will be due at the following laboratory. (See Laboratory Reports.pdf)
| Week |
Name |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Jan |
no lab | |
| 29 Jan |
E-1a | Electrostatics-a |
| 5 Feb |
E-1b | Electrostatics-b |
| 12 Feb |
EC-2 | Electric Fields |
| 19 Feb |
First Report & Makeup | assigned by TA |
| 26 Feb |
EC-3 | Capacitors and RC Decay |
| 5 Mar |
E-4 | Charge to mass of electron |
| 12 Mar |
EC-5 | assigned by TA |
| 19 Mar |
Second Report & Makeup |
Magnetism |
| 26 Mar |
E-6,E-7 | Oscilloscope and AC Circuits |
| 9 Apr |
E-6,E-7 | Oscilloscope and AC Circuits (continued) |
| 16 Apr |
Third Report & Makeup |
assigned by TA |
| 23 Apr |
SC-1,S-2 | Standing waves & velocity of sound |
| 30 Apr |
LC-2 | Mirrors and lenses |
| 7 May |
LC-1 | Diffraction and Interference |
The lab reports are intended to be similar to a "real world" report to your supervisor of your investigations. They should be complete and understandable. You should identify the sources of error or uncertainty in your measurement and estimate its size.
Suggested format for Lab Report:
1. Write no more than 5 pages including diagrams, plots and graphs
2. Describe the goal
3. Describe your procedure, with any necessary diagrams or figures
4. Based on your notes from the lab, present your results -- data, analysis plots and/or tables
5. Discuss the results and their precision
6. Conclude (perhaps with a discussion of possible improvements for increased precision)