Syllabus

TR 12:30pm - 2:10pm in Bracy 126/112

Instructor Information

• Dr. Julie Butler

• Email: butlerju@mountunion.edu

• Office: Bracy 107

• Office Hours: Wednesday 12pm - 2pm, Thursday 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Friday 12pm-2pm, or by appointment

• Cell Phone: 864-993-7133

Course Description

Learning Outcomes

Grading

• Deliverables: 40%

• Poster Presentation: 20%

• Final Lab Report: 20%

• Participation and Engagement: 20%

Deliverables

Throughout each lab description are a series of questions for you to answer about the experiments and data and graphs to be produced. Turning in these questions by the deadline for each experiment will earn you half of your deliverable grade. The other half of the grade is earned through the following assignments. For the written components, refer to the lab report guidelines located here. The video analysis assignments are to be ~10-minute videos where you explain the purpose of the experiment, the methodology, the results and discussion of the results, and any conclusions using slides and appropriate visuals.  Guidelines for the video analysis assignments are located here.

• Experiment 1: Methodology (Written)

• Experiment 2: Results and Discussion (Written)

• Experiment 3: Introduction (Choose Part A or B only) (Written)

• Experiment 4: Abstract (Written) and Video Report 

• Experiment 5: Introduction and Conclusion (Written)

• Experiment 6: Video Analysis

• Experiment 7: Introduction (Written)

Poster Presentation

Final Lab Report

A full lab report for Experiment 4 (double chaotic pendulum) is before the end of the final period of the course. This report should follow the guidelines for a lab report posted here and should a physical copy needs to be turned in by the deadline. 

Schedule

• Experiment 1 (Concurrent with Experiment 2)

  • Experiment Description

  • Experiment Dates: January 9 - 30

  • Deliverables Due: February 6 at the start of class

• Experiment 2 (Concurrent with Experiment 1)

  • Experiment Description

  • Experiment Dates: January 9 - January 30

  • Deliverables Due: February 8 at the start of class

• Experiment 3

  • Experiment Description

  • Experiment Dates: February 1 - 13

  • Deliverables Due: February 22 at the start of class

• Experiment 4

  • Experiment Description

  • Experiment Dates: February 15 - March 14 (Spring Break is March 1 through March 8)

  • Report Due: March 26 at the start of class

• Experiment 5

  • Experiment Description

  • Experiment Dates: March 19 - 28

  • Report Due: April 9 at the start of class

• Experiment 6

  • Experiment Description

  • Experiment Dates: April 2 - 11

  • Report Due: April 23 by the end of the day

• Experiment 7

  • Experiment Description

  • Experiment Dates: April 15 - 25

  • Report Due: May 6 by 9am