Schedule of Due dates:

week Experiment Exercise what is due
Aug 25

Exp 1 Energy or Ruby

(Spectrometer instructions)

Course Overview What is a lab notebook?

Video capture overview

nothing
Sept 1 Exp 1 Energy or Ruby Experiment Design Discussion first ideas for video capture
Sept 8 Exp 1 Energy or Ruby   lab notebook lookover; first draft of video proposal
Sept 15 Exp 2 Ruby or energy   final draft of video proposal
Sept 22 Exp 2 Ruby or energy How to write a lab report lab notebook for Experiment 1
Sept 29 Exp 2 Ruby or energy Lab report exchange  
Oct 6 video capture  

First draft of lab report 1

Oct 13 Fall Break    
Oct 20 video capture  

Second draft of lab report 1

lab notebook for Experiment 2

Oct 27 video capture Oral Report Workshop Final draft of lab report 1
Nov 3 Exp 3 resonance Mech or Elec   first draft of video presentation
Nov 10 Exp 3 resonance Mech or Elec presentation conferences second draft of video presentation
Nov 17 Exp 4 resonance Elec or Mech presentation conferences lab notebook for Experiment 3
Nov 24 Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanksgiving
Dec 1 Exp 4 resonance Elec or Mech   draft of Lab report 2
Dec 8   Oral Presentation of video project  
Dec 15 finals week Final draft of Report 2and lab notebook due Wednesday 5pm

Experiment Schedule:

name Experiment 1 Experiment 2 Experiment 3 Experiment 4
Luke Ruby Spectroscopy Energy Efficiency Mechanical Resonance Electrical Resonance
Torrey Ruby Spectroscopy Energy Efficiency Mechanical Resonance Electrical Resonance
Ben Ruby Spectroscopy Energy Efficiency Electrical Resonance Mechanical Resonance
Emily Energy Efficiency Ruby Spectroscopy Electrical Resonance Mechanical Resonance
Brian Energy Efficiency Ruby Spectroscopy Electrical Resonance Mechanical Resonance

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