Labs

• Labs will be held at HFA D5 (Hearst Field Annex)
• Students are expected to complete all the labs in the course.
• There are 7 labs, the weeks of the labs are given in the course outline. You are not required to be at the 7C lab at any time except for the actual experiments, as scheduled in the course outline. Attendance for the purpose of class enrollment during the first week will be taken at discussion sections.
• You will need to get a lab manual.
  Older ( not necessarily up to date) lab write-ups are online at http://physics.berkeley.edu/courses/labs/7c/7c.shtml. These cannot substitute for the up to date manual available at copy central.
• Please finish the pre-lab questions for a given experiment before the lab session.
• Labs are due the day of the lab. On the lab write ups, please put your name and sid# on each page, and on the front page the lab number, date, your e-mail, lab section # and GSI, and if you did your lab in a section besides your usual one, also the lab section # and gsi of that lab.
• Each missed lab will drop your grade by 1/3 (i.e. B+ to B, for example), one laboratory will be dropped. For submitted lab reports, GSIs will adhere to the following rubric:

  Score out of 5	Meaning
  5	Student shows mastery of material and answers all questions
  4	Student show good understanding of material with minor flaws, or omits one or two small parts in the writeup
  3	Student shows working understanding, but with notable flaws; or, omits a one or two large parts in the writeup
  2	Student shows heavily flawed understanding of material, or omits a significant fraction of the writeup
  1	Student show little understanding of material, or completes little of the writeup

• If you absolutely cannot make your scheduled lab, and must attend a different session, perform the following steps:
  • Notify the GSI of your assigned lab section that you cannot attend.
  • Find a lab session with open slots that fits your schedule; refer to the Online Schedule of Classes to see enrollment levels.
  • Notify the GSI of the lab you wish to attend that you will be showing up.
  • It is your responsibility to make sure that your lab writeup reaches your own lab GSI for grading and recording. Either turn it into him the following week or find some other means of getting it to him. Let him know which you plan to do.
• Material from the laboratories may appear on exams.
• A table of who is teaching what (as of 5PM, Jan. 21):

  Sec. #	Time	GSI or Status
  104	Tu 8-11	Jim Bosch
  105	Tu 11-2	Jim Bosch
  106	Tu 2-5	Chris Herdman
  107	W 8-11	Vidya Mandiyan
  108	W 11-2	Sourav Mandal
  109	W 2-5	Ilya Osipenkov
  110	Th 8-11	CLOSED*
  111	Th 11-2	Jim Bosch
  112	Th 2-5	Brad Zamft
  113	F 8-11	CLOSED*
  114	F 11-2	CLOSED*
  115	F 2-5	Sourav Mandal

  *If your section is closed, you need to find another section.

Syllabus Cards

• Syllabus cards are available for purchase at Copy Central, 2560 Bancroft Way (near Hearst Gym) starting Jan. 27 and cost $2.75.
• 7C has a mandatory Syllabus Card that pays for handouts. You will need to do this to receive the grades from your first midterm.

Homeworks

• Problem solving is a big part of what this course is about--how to abstract the basic questions and quantities and then to do calculations with them to get answers. The best way to learn how to do problems is to do a lot of them, and that is what the homeworks will give you a chance to do.
• Homeworks are due on Fridays at 5 pm in the Physics 7C boxes, labeled by discussion section # (restroom corridor in building D HFA, Hearst Field Annex; the access code is 12345*. You might have to try several times to get the door to unlock). Late homeworks are not accepted. Please use 8 1/2" x 11" paper, stapled, with your name and sid# on each page, and the homework number, due date, your email, discussion section number and discussion GSI name as well on the front page.
• Homework assignments will be available online at http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~phy7c/outline.html.
• You can discuss the homeworks with classmates, the GSI or instructor, but the work on them should be your own and you should write them up yourselves. The worst two homeworks will be dropped.

Midterms and Final

• Midterms:
  • Cohn's Section: Monday Feb. 24 and Monday April 7, 6-8 pm,
    155 Dwinelle
  • Orenstein's Section: Tuesday Feb. 25 and Tuesday Apr. 8, 6-8 pm,
    first midterm is in 1 LeConte, second midterm is in 1 Pimentel
• Review sessions:
  Each session may focus on a particular lecture section, as noted below.
  Feb 22 (Sat) and Feb. 23 (Sun), 3-5 pm, 155 Dwinelle
  both sessions will be for both sections, i.e. you can go to both
  April 5 (Sat) and April 6 (Sun), 3-5 pm, 155 Dwinelle

  Final:

  Exam Group 7-Monday May 19, 12:30-3:30 pm (Cohn)

  Exam Group 21-Sat May 24, 8-11 am (Orenstein)

  NEW! Finals Review Sessions:

  Both are in 4 Leconte, 6-8PM. Use the southwest entrance (next to the bike racks, underneath the bridge to Birge) for access.

  May 5/17 (Sat) -- Giancoli Ch. 32-37, w/ Brad

  May 5/18 (Sun) -- Giancoli Ch. 38 onward, w/ Ilya

  Please make sure you are available to take these exams.

  If you are convinced that a problem has been graded incorrectly, please staple a sheet of paper to the front of the exam that details your argument. Do this for each problem for which you encounter a grading error. Give your paper to your discussion GSI, and he will route it to the graders and deliver it back to you after it has been reevaluated.

Grading

• Homeworks, Discussions, Labs 20%, Midterms 20% each, Final 40%
  Each missed lab will drop your grade by 1/3 (B+ to B for example).
• You must pass the final in order to pass the course. The exam groups are 7(Cohn) and 21(Orenstein), please make sure you do not have a conflict.