PHYS 102 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Explore It:  Lab

Your lab team depends upon you. Be on time.

• A check-in activity will be done at the beginning of each lab period.  This activitgy will be submitted through PrairieTest. 
• If you are not in the lab when your TA checks students in and opens the assessment, you will be marked ABS.
• In-class attendance is required.  Remote access will not be granted.  If you are unable to attend lab, please request an excused absence.
• We do not allow one-time section switches to make up missed labs.

About the lab

The lab cycle (see course schedule) is designed to provide the opportunity to:

• explore the applications and implications of the concepts developed in lecture.
• build experimental planning skills.
• develop the confidence to independently explore physics ideas.
• practice scientific communication skills, both verbally and in writing.

The laboratory portion of this course will consist of eight (8) 3-hour laboratories and one lab practical.

1. A prelab exercise completed on the Monday of each lab week.
2. The laboratory exercise in which students will:
   1. read a brief describing a physics scenario for explaration.
   2. propose a scientific question and an experimental plan to explore it.
   3. perform measurements using their proposed experimental plan.
   4. analyze experimental results, including experimental uncertainties.
   5. draw conclusions based on their results.
3. A laboratory write-up which will be completed during the session and turned in at the end of the lab session.

Active student participation is required in lab sections.