Lab web site:
http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/2007spring/ISP209L/
Dr. Emil Bozin, 4250 BPS Office Hour: by appointment, 4250 BPS
Phone: 355-9200 x 2346 Email: bozin@pa.msu.edu
Section 1: Monday 09:10 AM - 12:00 PM Instructors: E. Bozin and P. Juhas
Section 2: Monday 12:40 PM - 03:30 PM Instructors: J. Clifford
Section 3: Monday 04:10 PM - 07:00 PM Instructors: J. Clifford
This two-credit laboratory provides hands-on experience to discover and reinforce basic physical phenomena. The heart of the course consists of a series of experiments in the areas of optics, mechanical systems, and electro-magnetics. The teaching team consists of a graduate instructor Jacob Clifford, Dr Pavol Juhas and Dr Emil Bozin. We hope that your experience in the lab is going to be a pleasant one as we work through these experiments together.
Procedures
· Labs are held in
302 North Kedzie on Monday. Prior to each lab, you are required to take a10
minute quiz. Each lab will begin with the quiz, followed by a short
introductory lecture.
· Working in groups
of 2 or 3 you will then perform measurements and tabulate your data in using
the appropriate pages from the ISP 2009L Course Pack.
The scheduled labs are listed on the reverse side. (Note: groups of 4 will only be permitted if
all of the other groups in the class have at least 3 people in them.) You
should be part of a different group every week.
· After conducting
the experiment and tabulating the data, each student will independently analyze
and present the results, and answer the questions. You are encouraged to seek help from the instructor and from other
students. However, the work you turn in
should be your own.
· All material used
to determine grades (data sheets, graphs, questions, etc) will be prepared by
each student during the lab period and submitted for grading before leaving the
lab. Because the lab must be immediately reset for the following section,
students must turn in their work promptly at the end of their period. There
will be no exceptions to this policy.
· There will be a
final exam in the last week of class. The exam will include quiz questions,
questions derived from the pre-lab lectures, and questions from the labs
themselves.
Hardware
· Required Course
Pack: ISP209L Course Pack. It is prepared by Prof. Stuart Tessmer and is available at the SBS or can be downloaded
here. You must bring it for
all of the labs as it will not be possible to do the labs
without the Course Pack.
· Required Tools: Pencil, Calculator with
trigonometric functions, logarithmic functions and scientific notation.
Quizzes will be conducted prior to each experiment during the first 10 minutes of the lab. The quizzes are closed book and will be based on material related to the lab scheduled for that day.
You
are expected to read through the scheduled lab procedures in advance of each
class. This is needed for the lab to make sense as you work through the
details. The main purpose of the quiz is to give you extra incentive to read
about each lab in advance. For further assistance in preparing, additional
reading material relevant for many of the labs can be found in Prof. Sherrill's
ISP209 Course Pack. The material from Prof. Sherrill’s class is not
required.
ABSENCE / LATE POLICY
There
will be no opportunities to make up a missed lab under any
circumstances. If you have to miss a lab for a legitimate reason, you should
inform me by email (bozin@pa.msu.edu) or phone (355-9200x2346) within 48 hrs
following the lab. If only one lab is missed, no adjustments will be made as
only the highest 11 of 12 quiz+lab scores count toward the final grade (see
below). If more than one lab is missed with legitimate excuses, such as an
extended illness, you should inform me within 48 hours of each lab.
Documentation, such as a doctor’s note, is required. In these cases, the
missing lab score will be replaced at the end of the semester by an average of
the other scores. Unexcused absences will be a zero in the gradebook. The same
applies to cases in which a student misses a lab because he/she forgot to bring
the relevant pages from the course pack. Students who arrive late may not be
allowed to do the lab, at the instructor's discretion.
GRADING POLICY
The quizzes count for 3 points. The lab reports will be graded on a 0 to 7 point scale. The total number of points possible for each lab class will be 10. The highest 11 of 12 quiz+lab scores count, hence 110 points represents the highest quiz + lab score.
Your
grade will depend on your Class Percentage with the total quiz+lab score
weighted by 0.80 and the final exam weighted by 0.20. To give a formula, let's
call QL=(quiz+lab total)/110 and FE=(final exam percentage)/100. Your Class
Percentage is then Class Percentage = 100*[QL*0.8 + FE*0.2]. The cutoffs to determine your final
grade are given in the following table:
|
Class
Percentage |
Grade |
|
90.00-100 |
4.0 |
|
85.00-89.99 |
3.5 |
|
80.00-84.99 |
3.0 |
|
75.00-79.99 |
2.5 |
|
70.00-74.99 |
2.0 |
|
65.00-69.99 |
1.5 |
|
50.00-64.99 |
1.0 |
|
00.00-49.99 |
0.0 |
TO DO WELL IN THIS COURSE
Since the labs are fairly straightforward, if you give it an
honest effort doing all the quizzes and attending all the labs you will get a
strong quiz+lab score. Typically it is also necessary to do well on the final
exam to get a 3.5 or a 4.0. The advice to do well on the final is to spend time
carefully reading and understanding the basic ideas of each lab in advance. In
addition to making the lab run more smoothly, it will be more likely that the
key ideas are clear. You will then be better prepared when reviewing the
material for the final exam.
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Date |
Lab# |
Topics |
Additional Reading |
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Introductory lecture, handouts |
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Jan 15 |
MLK Holiday |
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1 |
Dice-probability vs average |
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2 |
Free fall measurement of g |
Lectures 3 and 4 Sections 3.5 and 3.6 in Textbook |
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3 |
Threshold of hearing |
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4 |
Energy, Cycle power |
Lectures 11 and 12 Chapters 6 and 7 |
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5 |
Rolling cylinders |
Lecture 4 |
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6 |
Simple circuits |
Lecture 13 Section 8.4 |
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Mar 5 |
Spring Break |
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7 |
Oscilloscope-wave forms |
Lecture 13 |
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8 |
Reflection, Refraction |
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9 |
Single slit diffraction |
Lectures 14 and 15 Sections 8.1 to 8.3 |
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10 |
Two slit interference |
Lectures 14 and 15 Sections 8.1 to 8.3 |
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11 |
Radioactivity |
Lecture 20 Chapter 15 |
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12 |
Low temperature physics semi- and superconductors |
Lecture 13 |
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Apr 23 |
Final Exam |
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