2022-2023 SPRING SEMESTER PHYS 101, PHYS 102 LAB SESSIONS
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
PHYS101 and PHYS102 Lab sessions will start on the third week of the semester, on the day indicated in your weekly schedule.
You will be expected to do the experiment, record your data, and finish the writing of your lab report during your regular lab hours. Lab reports will be submitted to the responsible lab assistant at the end of the lab session.
If you have questions about the lab, or if you are encountering problems, you should contact your lab assistant either personally or by writing an e-mail.
To learn your lab schedule and the detailed semester plan, use the “Lab Schedule” and the “Semester Plan” links on the left.
You can download your lab manual for each experiment from MOODLE. Since there will be a quiz given at the beginning of each lab session, it is important that you study the manual before you come to the lab.
NOTE FOR REPEATING STUDENTS
If you have taken this course in the past and your lab grade in the system is satisfactory (i.e., 60 or above), you have the right to apply for exemption. Lab exemption is not automatically granted. You have to apply for it. To do this click on the menu item “Request Exemption” on the left and fill in the on-line form. The deadline for the application is Sunday, 26 February 2023, at 23 :59. Be sure that your details are entered correctly so that we can find your previous lab grade from our files. Few days later, check and be sure that your name appears on the “Exemption List“. Those students who took and passed the lab for the first time in 2019-20 spring and 2019-20 summer semesters will not be given exemption because of the fact that no project work was done in those semesters due to extraordinary conditions.
Note: Those students who withdraw from the course will not be able to complete the lab work, and will have to repeat the lab next time they take the course.
GENERAL INFORMATION AND GRADING
Physics lab includes 3 experiments (45 % contribution) and 1 lab project (55% contribution). The aim of the 3 experiments is to provide basic laboratory training.
- Experiments for Phys 101
Experiment 1 – Measurement and Errors (%15)
Experiment 2 – Velocity and Acceleration (%15)
Experiment 3 – Conservation of Linear Momentum: Collisions (%15)
- Experiments for Phys 102
Experiment 1 – Electrical Measurements (%15)
Experiment 2 – Equipotentials and Radial Electric Field Lines (%15)
Experiment 3 – Capacitance Circuits (%15)
- Project Work Cancelled
Your Lab grade will be calculated as:
(Exp. 1 + Exp. 2 + Exp. 3)/3
ADDITIONAL NOTES
- You may receive help for your proposals from various sources or discussions with other people, but anything you submit as Lab work must be your own work. Any form of cheating will result in failing the Lab, as well as disciplinary action.
- You will lose points from components for late submission (10 points for each day). In order to pass the Lab, your lab grade must be at least 60. Students who fail the Lab will receive an FZ grade from the course, independent of how they perform in their exams.
- You may ask for a reassessment of a component of your laboratory activity, with the exception of video presentation. Reassessment application must be done within five work days following the announcement of the grades.
- Labs will be available for you to work throughout the semester during your regular lab hours. Your lab assistant can answer your questions about available equipment as well as how you will be submitting your proposals and final report electronically.