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Instructor:
Office:
Office Hours:
Office Phone:
Maria Novovic-Zec, M.S.
ILB, Room 229
Tuesday & Wednesday 10:00-11:00
Friday 1:00-2:00
460-6224 ext. 1374
E-mail: mnovovic@southalabama.edu
Course Format: Lab-No Web Component, Lab-Web Enhanced
Manual:
Lab Meetings:
PH 104: Concepts of Physics Laboratory, 2nd Edition, 2007
ILB 135
Lab Schedule:
Week of:
Aug 20-21
Aug 27-28
Sep 3-4
Sep 7-11
Sep 17-18
Sep 24-25
Oct 1-2
Oct 8-9
Oct 15-16
Oct 22-23
Oct 29-30
Nov 5-6
Experiment number Topic
Introduction
Lab 1
Lab 2
Fall Break
Lab 6
Lab 7
Lab 8
Lab 9
Measurement and uncertainties
Acceleration due to gravity
Labor Day Holiday No labs this week
Lab 3 Potential energy
Lab 4
Lab 5
Conservation of energy
Density
No labs this week
Heat and calorimetry
Speed of sound
Resistance and Ohm’s law
Transformers
Nov 12-13
Nov 19-20
Nov 23-27
Lab 10
Lab 11
Lenses and telescopes
Colors and spectra
Thanksgiving Holiday No labs this week
Dec 3-4
Course Description:
Lab 12 Radioactivity
Welcome to the lab section for PH 104! This laboratory course will supplement the lecture course for introduction to physical concepts (PH 104). Student must pass this laboratory course to receive a passing grade in the PH 104 course. The PH 104L grade is a component of the PH 104 course grade. Each lab is designed to demonstrate a particular principle or law, and give the student the concrete example of its function in the physical world. Students are expected to gather a deeper understanding of the physical phenomena, its underlying mathematics and principal experience reporting their observations. It is the policy of the Physics Department that you must pass the laboratory in order to pass the course.

Course Materials:
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Lab Manual PH 104: Concepts of Physics Laboratory, 2nd Edition, 2007.
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Pencil or pen, ruler and calculator.
Attendance Policy:
The lab is an integral part of the course, and attendance to labs is mandatory. You are expected to arrive on time, and to complete assignments as scheduled. If you need to miss a lab session, you may attend another section during the week of the missed lab only if you have prior approval of both instructors! Make up work must be turned in to the instructor of the make up class attended. I only allow two excused absences per semester.
Any unexcused absence will result in grade of zero for that week’s lab report.
Lab Worksheet:
The Lab Manual is MANDATORY and must be purchased prior to coming to the first lab. There are 12 labs throughout the semester. Your final lab grade is the average of all lab grades. There is no “drop” grade. All experimental work performed in the lab will be documented by completing assigned lab worksheet with answered questions. You will be working in groups of 3 during the labs, but the answer sheet should be completed on your own. Late work will not be accepted. All graded lab worksheets must be turned in at the end of the lab period. Students who fail to do so will not pass the lab.
Students with Disabilities:
“In accordance with the Americas with disabilities Act, students with disabilities who are registered with the Office of Student Disability Services will be afforded reasonable accommodations in completing lab assignments.”
Academic Disruption and Student Academic Conduct:
Students are expected to arrive on time, be courteous, and respectful of faculty members and fellow students.
Electronics such as cell phones, personal laptop computers, and cameras normally have no purpose in this course. Their use is generally considered distracting by students, and considered disrespectful and rude by Instructors; therefore it will be treated as an
Academic Disruption. Class time should be valued as a brief window in your day when you could personally interact with your Instructor and your classmates all in the same room (so any person or activity outside the class would just have to wait).
Cheating generally means deceiving the Instructor, mainly by stealing someone else's work and then leading the Instructor believe that you had done the work yourself. Such behavior is considered dishonorable, has no place in any institution of higher learning, and will not be tolerated. This includes copying from a lab report that was completed by someone else -- whether it is a classmate or a resource outside of the class. Anyone caught cheating in a lab will be given a zero score for that lab, and will be asked to leave.
Cheating also includes deceiving the Instructor, such submitting a counterfeit document to excuse an absence. Any of these could also result in an instant , final course grade of
"F".