Get as much as you can from your reading and hands-on experimenting, without feeling that you have to understand everything in order to derive benefit from the course. Regard the course as an opportunity to get hands-on experience, supported by as much background reading and understanding as you have time for. Working with the apparatus and thinking about what you are doing are the most important aspects of the course. During the semester you will submit two kinds of lab report for grading. This is a series of questions to answer or instructions for graphs to prepare which concisely summarize your results.
Lab reports are due no later than one week from the last day of an experiment.
They will then be inspected, graded and returned to place in your lab notebook. The detailed lab report is due no later than the last day of the reading period. Grading Your grade for the course will be based primarily on the written work you submit, and the care with which you work in lab. Each of the concise reports you hand in at the end of an experiment will receive a numerical score from 1 to 5. The grading is based on the clarity and completeness in which the questions are addressed.