Information about P221/P222 Laboratory Exercises.

• Attendance is required. Special arrangements may be made under exceptional circumstances, but this will usually result in points being taken off (If you know you are going to miss a lab, talk to the instructor about possibly making that lab up).
• You should bring a calculator, ruler, compass, protractor, graph paper and erasable pencil to each lab.
• You may finish the lab write-ups at home, HOWEVER; any raw data will be examined and signed by the instructor before you leave. The raw data is not to be recopied or modified but must be turned in as is with the lab report. This policy is intended to get you into the habit of making a neat record of your results as you go along and will help you avoid the problem of scribbling down numbers which you later cannot read or understand.
• Lab reports must be turned in on time for full credit, points will be deducted for lateness.
• Your lab grade will be based on the lab reports and attendance.
• You may print your TI calculator screen in the PS100 computer lab to turn in graphs on lab and homework exercises.
• See page 1 of the P221/P222 Lab manual for the format of Lab reports.
• See Appendix A and B of the P221/P222 lab manual for information about how to preform an Error Analysis for these labs.
• Lab exercises will sometimes be behind the lectures and in many cases there is material covered in the lab only (and not in the lecture). You are responsible for locating the appropriate reading material in the text so that you understand what the lab is about before you come to lab.

Schedule of labs for this year.

Points will be lost for lateness and excessive sloppiness.