11FYZe / Laboratory work organization

The students will establish laboratory groups of three. All supporting material for the laboratory measurements (timetable, report heading, list of the tasks and supporting information sheets, etc.) could be downloaded from the subject website.
Every students' laboratory group will carry out the laboratory tasks according to the timetable of the term. Every laboratory group has its own laboratory tasks schedule. The tasks schedule is a table of compulsory measurements given for every group and every week of the term.
Before the laboratory task is scheduled, teachers will shortly present the measurement procedure and calculations for the following tasks. The student is obliged to study the task content as a homework. The student could make a short written task preparation. The written preparation has an A4 sheet format and consist of: heading with the task name, specification of the task, theoretical principle of the task and important formulas with units, short description of the measurement procedure, wiring diagrams (if needed) and a list of uncertainty calculation formulas.
The particular measurement tasks description could be found in the supporting information files on the subject website.
At the beginning of every laboratory exercise, the students will be tested for their knowledge. The teacher should test the knowledge by a short oral examination. Unsatisfactory result of the testing will be classified by F and the student should carry out the measurement on an alternate term (see the exercise timetable).
All data generated in terms of the laboratory exercise should be handwritten or processed by PC and printed on the laboratory printer. Every students’ group has its own data for post-processing. At the end of the exercise, all the obtained data should be checked and signed by the teacher. Unsigned data are not valid for any post-processing and for the measurement report preparation.
In the following week, every laboratory group will present the measurement procedure, calculations, results obtained and estimation of the measurement uncertainties. The presentation outline should follow the typical measurement report (see paragraph Nr. 10 and an exemplary report on the website)
The measurement report should be delivered to the teacher in 2 weeks at the latest. The first report (Measurement and processing of the time and dimensions data) should be delivered in one week at the latest because the corrected version of the first report will be discussed on the earliest exercise term.
If the student group does not deliver the report within 2 weeks after the measurement, this delivery delay will will be classified by F. Every additional week delay will be classified by another F. If the report is not delivered by 4 weeks after the measurement, the laboratory task should be carried out again. For the first report (see paragraph Nr. 8) these terms start after one week.
A well-processed report consist of: A list of the data signed by the teacher, supplement sheets with the data regression (if needed), clear general solution of the physical formulas, precise values substitution and calculation of results with physical units (uncertainty calculation included). If the teacher does not receive any part of the afore-mentioned report content, the delivered report will be rejected.
The teacher is obliged to revise the report as soon as possible and should give a report quality feedback to the student. If any corrections are needed, the student should make these corrections immediately or by the next exercise.
The teacher's classification of the student's report should comprehend a complex processing of the laboratory task, including the quality of the preparation, data measurement, promptness of the processing, presentation of the results and the report quality itself. The classification range is A to F.
If the student cannot participate on the scheduled laboratory exercise due to any reason (illness, scheduled absence, unsatisfactory preparation for the measurement), there is an alternate day for the task measurement available (see the laboratory measurement timetable).
The main assessment condition involves the full set of the executed laboratory tasks scheduled with regard to the students' laboratory group timetable, full number of the delivered reports and its classification E or better. Second assessment condition is that the maximum number of F classifications (see the paragraphs above) is not higher than 5. The assessment will be disapproved if the student would violate any part of the Ethic code of CTU in Prague or the Provision Nr. 1/2009 of the Rector's guideline (falsification of the data, falsification of the reports).