Experience has shown that regular lecture attendance has a favorable effect on your ability to answer exam questions and avoid experiment errors. The first hour of each lab may be spent in the classroom discussing the experiment to be performed as well as related problems from the lecture material. The second and third hour of each lab period are spent in the laboratory doing the experiment scheduled for that day. If you are repeating this course, you will also have to repeat the lab. The potential of risk is present in some lecture demonstrations and laboratory experiments.
Accidents are rare, but have happened.
Faculty and staff members exercise great care to minimize and, when possible, eliminate all potential hazards. Additionally, minimization of risks requires that students come well prepared for each assigned exercise and are attentive in class. Suggested homework problems will be assigned from each chapter that is covered this semester. The problems will not be graded and you are not required to turn them in. However you are encouraged to work all the problems since this usually results in higher exam scores.