Course Description General Physics Labs I and II are 1-credit courses that are designed to introduce students to quantitative experimental techniques and to help develop the "physical intuition" that is essential to learning General Physics. The course has one 3-hour meeting per week. All work is to be completed and submitted to the TA during each weekly class meeting. Course Instructor Professor Morris Swartz Department of Physics & Astronomy Office: Bloomberg 427 Phone: (410) 516-5159 email: morris@jhu.edu Web Page: http://physics.jhu.edu/people/faculty/morris.html Office Hours: Monday 10.00-12.00 Head TA George Bruhn Office: Bloomberg 450 Phone: (410) 516-4084 email: gbruhn@pha.jhu.edu Office Hours: Tuesday 4-5 PM TAs and Sections Course Materials "Laboratory Experiments in Physics I", Spring 2006 edition. Available from Printing Services in basement of Wyman Park Building "Laboratory Report Notebook for Physics I", Spring 2006 edition. Also available from Printing Services "An Introduction to Error Analysis", 2nd edition, by John R. Taylor. Recommended (Bookstore) Registration, Add/Drop All registration and add/drops are handled via the registrars office. Note that the 24 student per section limit is strictly observed. It will not be exceeded under ANY circumstances. This means that the instructor will NOT sign ANY add/drop forms (TAs are forbidden to do so). Normally, there is some movement during the first two week of the semester and closed sections do become available. Rules and Regulations Please attend the section for which you are registered: failure to do so will result in a reduced grade Please review lab manual writeup before coming to class. Show up at the Lab promptly, and turn in your lab report before your Lab session is ended (11:50 am, 3:50 pm, or 8:50pm.) No food or drink in the Lab (State law) and no cell phone in the Lab. Remember your PC usernames and passwords. When you leave, sign off your PC, return all equipment to the way you started, and clean up anything you left behind. Grading Policy Grades will be based upon the best 9 of 11 labs. It will be possible to make-up any lab during the last week of class. Grading Scale Lab and Quiz grades will be reported on the following scale: 4.5 - work exceeds our expectations (you do extra stuff) 4.0 - work demonstrates mastery 3.0 - not perfect, but work demonstrates that you mostly understand what you are doing 2.0 - you do not understand some important things 1.0 - you demonstrate that you don't get it 0.0 - you did not show-up or you did not even try to do the work The final grade will involve some rescaling of these numbers.