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Physics
10L course Syllabus |
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Required Text: Laboratory Manual for Conceptual Physics, 10th Edition. by Paul G. Robinson. ISBN 0-8053-9199-1.
Other Required materials: Students will be asked to check out one or more "take home kits of necessary materials" to be returned and exchanged at various class meetings during the semester. In addition to the take home kits, students should have access to the items listed below. Anyone wishing to use materials on campus instead can do so during office hours or times arranged with the instructor.
Frequent Use
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Used for One or more Labs
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Used for One or more Labs
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Grading
Grades in Physics 10L will be based on your performance on:
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participation at regular lab
meetings: 7 x 10 = 70 points
· lab reports from in class meetings: 7 x 10 = 70 points
· graded lab reports 23 activities worth 7 pts each (2-5 from blackboard mini report, and 2-5 for each written report) = 161 pts total
· discussion board participation: 15 points
· in class final exam 20 points
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on-line lab final exam 14 pts
· Lab Notebook Grade 30 pts
Total: 380 points
Grades (out of 380 possible points)
A 88.5% |
= 336 |
B 76.5% |
= 291 |
C 62.5% |
= 237 |
D 50% |
= 190 |
Lab Reports:
In order to get Credit for
your work, you will need to submit a record of your work. You will receive a guide to the lab write up
at he first lab meeting. If you follow
the format and work carefully, you will earn most of, if not all, the points for a given
lab. You are also expected to keep a record of your work in your lab
notebook. On April 1st, and
at the lab final, the notebooks will be collected and you will be given a
grade for completeness.
The write up for labs from the lab manual, done at home, are usually a bit
simpler. For those you will be required
to follow the step by step instructions in the manual, and answer questions at
the end. There will also be a "mini report" for each lab in blackboard asking brief questions about the lab and its connection to physics principles and the scientific method. As with the in class labs, you
will be expected to keep a record of your work in the lab notebook. Note that you can turn in the actual pages of
the manual, although it is recommended that you work through calculations first
in the lab notebook.
Laboratory Schedule
last revised: 1/08/2010
Week |
Important Dates |
Activities from Lab Manual |
print up lab instructions here if linked (be handed
out in class if not linked here)
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Due Date |
1 (1/19) |
Class Meeting: 1/21 |
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Bean Counting |
2/4 |
2 (1/25) |
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Tin Pan Alley ·
Styrofoam
Astronauts |
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2/4 |
3 (2/1) |
Last to day to drop with no grade of record (NGR): 2/5 Class Meeting: 2/4 |
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Split Seconds ·
Go Carts |
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2/4 |
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2/25 |
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5 (2/8) |
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Torque Feeler ·
On Target ·
Powerhouse |
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2/25 |
6 (2/15) |
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Weight a moment ·
Point of No
return |
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2/25 |
7 (2/22) |
Class Meeting: 2/25 |
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Mass of the
Earth ·
Flying Pig |
3/18 |
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8 (3/1)
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Specifically
Water ·
Spiked Water |
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3/18 |
9 (3/9)
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Solar Power ·
Specific heats |
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3/18 |
10 (3/16)
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Class Meeting: 3/18 |
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4/1 |
11 (3/23)
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Sticky
Electrostatics ·
Let There be
Light |
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4/1 |
12 (3/30)
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Class Meeting: 4/1 |
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Electricity (and Magnetism)
2 - Lab Handout |
4/22 |
(4/5)
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Spring Break |
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13 (4/12) |
Last day to drop with a grade of W via ClassWeb: 4/15 |
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Sir Speedy ·
Resonant
Frequency of Plastic Bottles (handout) |
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4/22 |
14 (4/19) |
Class Meeting: 4/22 |
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Waves and Sounds – Lab
Handout |
5/6 |
15 (4/26) |
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Camera Obscura ·
Disappearing
Act |
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5/6 |
16 (5/3) |
Class Meeting: 5/6 |
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Optics – Lab Handout |
5/20 |
17 (5/10) |
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Half of a Half ·
Nuclear Marbles |
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5/20 |
18 (5/17) |
Class Meeting: 5/20 Lab Final |
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Lab Handout |
In class |
19 (5/24) |
Online Final 5/23-5/26 |
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See Blackboard |
5/26 |