PHY4802L - LABORATORY ELECTRONICS - SPRING 2015
Grading
- Lab and Lab Reports: 60%
- Weekly In-Class quiz: 15%
- Final Project: 15%
- Instructor discretion 10%
On the day of the final, once all presentations are complete, you must clean up your project and bench area. Anyone not doing so will receive an Incomplete in this course.
Weekly Quizzes
In-class quizzes will be given in the first 20-30 minutes of class about once a week; can be either Tuesday or Thursday, until the Skunk Works project starts. The quiz starts promptly on time. These are closed book quizzes. No make-up in-class quizzes will be offered. The quiz is based on what you should know at the day of the quiz. The basics are covered in the reading assignments and the lectures. But you have to be able to apply those principles and that requires practice. The textbook and the student manual have many practical examples which be might modified for quiz questions.Lab Reports
Lab reports are due by the start of class on the dates listed on the schedule. Late lab reports will incur a severe penalty of up to 15% off per day late. After 4 days late the maximum grade for the assignment (assuming perfect work) will be 50%.Assignment due dates will be strictly followed.
We accept hard copies and electronic copies in pdf format assuming we can read them. Electronic copies might be returned electronically. The due dates are shown on the Class Schedule and the hard copies or pdfs have to be submitted on that day prior to the start of the lab. While you will work in teams of 2 for building the circuits and recording data, the lab reports are to be individual efforts. Discussion with and help from your peers is encouraged, but copying of work is not. Both of the members in a group should participate in taking data and analyses. Exclusively sharing the duty of lab work is not allowed. Lab partners will be rotated based on the instructor's preference.