Advanced Physics Laboratory - Course Homepage

TO GET ENROLMENT APPROVAL

Carefully complete Preference Form available in DOCX or PDF format, and email it to the APL Coordinator at dbailey@physics.utoronto.ca

When filling out the form, clearly indicate your schedule constraints, conflicts, and preferences so we can schedule students at specific times if necessary.

• For example, if this is your only in-person on-campus course, let us know if you wish to come in all day once-a-week on Tuesday or Friday, instead of twice-a-week on during the regular Tuesday and Friday morning lab periods.
• Experimental work rarely goes as smoothly as hoped, so you should be prepared to sometimes come in for additional times.
• Some experiments require more frequent but shorter times in the lab.

COVID-19 Safety

Students are only allowed to enter McLennan Physics if they have that same day completed and passed a University of Toronto UCheck or Offline Self-Assessment. Appropriate masks must be worn at all times when inside McLennan Physics. Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms must not be in the labs. Anyone with a fever or cough will be sent home.

• You may be at relatively low risk from COVID-19, but if a 65 year old professor catches it from you, they may become seriously ill.
• MASKS WITH EXHALATION VALVES ARE NOT ALLOWED. The primary purpose of a mask is for communal protection, i.e. to reduce the chance of people spreading infectious droplets. A mask with an unfiltered exhalation valve does nothing to protect others.
• Everyone must carefully wash hands on arrival in the lab. All lab sinks will have soap and towels.

All face-to-face contact in the lab will be minimized and physical distancing practiced.

• As much as possible, help and discussion will be done remotely via phone/Zoom….
• All experiment interviews and final oral exams will be done remotely.
• Students should be sure they have a phone/tablet/laptop with camera.

Students will not normally be allowed to use their experiment's apparatus after the last lab period for that experiment, to ensure at least a 3-day sanitary gap between students using that apparatus.

LAB NOTEBOOKS

Lab notebooks are a key tool in any research or teaching lab. Students in the Advanced Physics Lab are expected to always concurrently record their work in a bound paper notebook.

• After each experiment, a compressed pdf file with high-resolution photos of each notebook page must be submitted for marking, along with any relevant, photos, code, plots, ….
• The actual paper notebook must be submitted if requested during the course.

Because most help will be done remotely, keeping these notebooks complete and up-to-date will be especially important. If something isn’t working as expected, supervising professors or TAs may ask you to send them a photo of the relevant pages from your notebook to help you solve the problem. If the issue is poorly documented in your notebook, we are less able to help you efficiently.