LAB ENROLLMENT

You must be officially registered through the Registrar's Office for the Physics lab section you attend; otherwise you may not receive credit for the entire Physics course. It is your responsibility to make certain you are properly enrolled for the lab you are attending.

During the registration Course Add period at the beginning of the semester, if you need to change your lab section enrollment, you may do so through CAROLINE (when available) or through the Department Main Office in Phillips 278. All lab section changes must be made before the end of the Course Add period.

LAB ATTENDANCE AND MISSED LABS

You are expected to attend all scheduled labs that correspond to your physics course. If you are unable to attend a lab, contact your lab instructor as soon as possible to arrange to attend another lab section in which you can perform the missed experiment. Your lab instructor will consult the schedule of other lab sections and their enrollment, and can give you the name and contact information for the instructor of the alternative lab section. You should contact this alternative instructor to obtain permission to attend his or her lab section since space for additional students is often limited. After receiving permission and attending another lab section, submit your lab report to your regular lab instructor, who will grade and return it to you. If attendance in another lab section is not possible due to circumstances beyond your control, you may seek an excused absence from the Lab Manager or Lab Director in order to have that lab score dropped. A missed lab will be dropped as an excused absence only in cases where a student has no other alternatives and the absence is well justified and verifiable; otherwise a zero will be recorded for the missed lab. A maximum of one lab score may be dropped as an excused absence during a single term; any additional missed labs will receive a zero regardless of the reason for the absence.