PHYSICS 7LC: CLASSICAL PHYSICS LAB

Fall 2011

Instructor: Prof. Clare Yu
Office: 210E RH
Phone: 949-824-6216
E-mail: cyu@uci.edu

TA: Pierce Weatherly
E-mail: pweather@uci.edu

TA: Kelly Margaritis
E-mail: kmargari@uci.edu

Goals: Physics 7LC is not a traditional lab course, but rather a tutorial designed to help you improve your understanding of the concepts in Physics 7C and develop your problem solving skills. This course also aims to promote interactive learning in a cooperative setting. Talking about physics with your group partners should help you to clarify your ideas as well as to provide a check on possible misconceptions.

Attendance: In order to receive credit for attending a lab section, you must attend the lab section in which you are enrolled, sign in at the beginning of class and sign out at the end of class. If you attend a section in which you are not enrolled, your attendance will be treated as an absence and you will receive a zero for that week. There are no make-ups. The lab sections will meet each week during the quarter, for a total of 10 weeks.

Enrollment: As specified in the Schedule of Classes, you must finalize your enrollment via WebReg by Friday of the end of Week 2 (Week 2 is the second full week of classes). Your TA has no authority to enroll you.

Grading : Your grade based solely on attendance and your performance in the lab. There is no final exam. Each lab section is worth a maximum of 11.1 points. If you do not attend the entire lab section or if you do not make a good faith effort to solve the problems, then the TA may not give you full credit for attending the lab. The lowest grade will be dropped. The grading is as follows:

90 - 100 A
80 - 89 B
70 - 79 C
60 - 69 D
0 - 59 F

Lab: Each week you will work with other students on problems that your TA will give you. Typically there will be 3 students in a group. The TA will give you 2 problems on a piece of paper. Do not write on the paper. Write the solution on your own paper. Then show the TA when you are done. The TA will then give you another set of 2 problems. There will typically be 6 problems per week.