In the Physical Sciences Building, rooms PS 126 (PHYS 153) and 127/114 (113, 213, 114, 214) on the Pocatello campus, and in the Center for Higher Education (CHE 209) on the Idaho Falls campus.
See the course syllabus or class schedule. A complete schedule for each lab is available for downloading on the individual lab web sites.
You may download a course syllabus from the web site for the lab. See your class schedule for the URL, or go to http://www.physics.isu.edu/~hackmart/classes.html and follow the links.
Lab manuals are provided free of charge and may be obtained by downloading from the lab web sites.
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Everything else of you need for the lab may be obtained at the campus bookstore. Ask for the bundle for your lab. This bundle includes a TI-30Xa calculator and a 77-648 Laboratory Notebook. This is the calculator and notebook required in all physics labs (the TI-30Xa also comes in a solar powered version that is OK to use but costs three times as much money). You will also need to know your student ID # for all exams and quizzes. Students enrolled in PHYS101L do not need a lab notebook.
No. You must start with a new lab notebook for each new lab. If you are involved in a lab sequence that continues from one semester to the next (i.e., 113/114, 213/214), you are permitted to use the same notebook for the second part of the lab (provided that it meets all specs), but you need a new notebook every time you start a new lab or retake a lab. Under no circumstances should you ever tear a page out of a lab notebook!
The TI-30Xa (battery or solar-powered) is the calculator required for lab. It is the only calculator to be used in lab, the only calculator your instructor will answer questions about, and the only calculator that you will be allowed to use on the final exam.
There are no "make up" labs, per se, for PHYS 153, 113/114, 213/214. But if you miss a lab for an excusable reason you may attend another lab during the same week with advanced permission from both instructors. See your syllabus for details. The same policy applies to lab finals (see below). If you miss the entire lab final week you will have to wait until the following semester to take a final.
Lab finals are held after the last week of lab. See the lab schedules for the exact times and dates. . Students enrolled in PHYS101L do not take a lab final.
In your regular lab room at the regular lab time.
A cumulative spreadsheet is maintained
on the website for each lab which shows the points you have accumulated through
the semester. You may access your points at any time provided that you give us
a codename on the general information/quiz 1 form you will be asked to fill out
during the orientation lab.
Final lab grades will be posted after all
of the lab finals have been graded and the
curves computed. This is an involved process that generally takes about two weeks
after the last final has been given. Lab grades are posted on
the web sites for the labs. Because no one is able to predict when the lab grades
will be posted, email and/or phone queries pertaining
to "when will the lab grades be posted"
will not be answered. Lab grades will be posted as soon as they are ready.
If you wish to review you lab grades be sure to make arrangements with your
TA to do so before the end of the semester. After the semester ends
lab instructors are no longer under contract and not obligated to maintain
office hours or even be around. After the lab instructors have left it is
much more difficult for us to find your exam and go through it with you.
What
happens if my lab and/or lab final is canceled due to University closure?
If your lab
or lab final is canceled due to University closure it will be rescheduled for
the same time the following week.
I
am having a scheduling problem and may have to miss more than one lab during the
course of the semester.
You should consider transferring to another lab or taking the lab a different
semester when your scheduling conflicts can be resolved. Our current lab grading
system is built on the accumulation of points. Since there are many extra points
built into the system we do not offer "make up" labs. See your syllabus
for details.