Introduction and Definitons
1. Introduction and Definitions:
1.1 Purpose and Scope: The purpose of this regulation is to define the principles, procedures, and guidelines to be applied in laboratory training for fundamental physics courses. The provisions of this regulation apply exclusively to the laboratory component of the course. Its impact on the main course is limited solely to the laboratory grade.
1.2 Definitions:
a- Lab or Laboratory: Refers to the laboratory component of the fundamental physics course or one, several, or all of the laboratory sessions or classrooms.
b- PHYS and PHYL: PHYS Refers to the fundamental physics course, also known as the main course, and is also included in the course code. PHYL refers to the laboratory component of the fundamental physics course. It is also the code for the laboratory course that must be taken alongside the main course. Courses with the PHYL code do not appear on transcripts or in the registration system, and their grades contribute to the main course grade.
c- Web Page: Refers to the Boğaziçi University Fundamental Physics Laboratory web page (physlab.bogazici.edu.tr).
d- Lab Section: Refers to a laboratory session conducted in a specific lab classroom on a designated day and time of the week. It is distinct from the course sections and is determined after lab registration.
e- Lab Coordinators: Refers to the Instructors responsible for the administration and content of all laboratory courses.
f- Lab Instructors: Refers to the teaching staff responsible for taking attendance, explaining, supervising, and making students conducting experiments in the assigned laboratory section, as well as grading the applied exam.
g- Student Assistant: Refers to students who have successfully completed the relevant laboratory course previously and were selected through official applications made at the beginning of the semester. They assist the lab instructor and students practically during the assigned laboratory sessions. They are dependent on the lab instructor for attendance, grading, and the conduct of the experiment, and they do not bear sole responsibility in these matters.
h- Experiments: Refers to the laboratory sessions conducted in accordance with the weekly lab schedule, held on specific days and times in the designated classroom, excluding applied and written exams.
i- Applied or Practical Exams: Refers to experiments conducted in the form of an exam, in accordance with the weekly lab schedule, apart from regular experiments. These are held on the same day and time and in the same classroom as the regular experiments, and no additional experiments are conducted during the same week.
j- Lab Exam: Refers to the written exam held at the end of the semester, after all experiments and applied exams have been completed, on the date, time, and location announced in the semester's lab schedule.
k- Lab Grade: Refers to the grade that constitutes 20% of the main course grade and is calculated on a scale of 20 points. Students receive a separate lab grade for each laboratory course.
l- Minimum Pass Grade: Refers to the lowest grade that must be obtained in the relevant laboratory course to be considered successful.
m - Repete Grade: Refers to the grade previously obtained by a student who has taken the relevant laboratory before but is retaking the main course.
n- Lab Registration: Refers to the process of a student enrolling in the laboratory course, which is part of the physics course, at the beginning of the semester during the university's registration period. It is not done through the university's registration system and does not occur on the registration day.
o- Lab Materials: Refers to all educational documents announced on the webpage that students are responsible for, including lab books, lab sheets, lab presentations, etc.
p- Lab Sheets and Post-Lab Report: Lab sheets refers to the sheets that students are required to bring in blank form for the experiment or applied exam. These are announced as PDFs on the lab's webpage. Post-Lab report refers to the sheets located at the end of the lab sheets, which must be submitted to the lab instructor before leaving the lab and approved by the lab instructor.
q- Announcements: Refers to any written statements such as announcements, rules, and warnings published on the web page.
r- Lab Books and Lab Presentations: Refers to the books for each laboratory course, which are available in PDF format on the lab's webpage. The content and order of the experiments may differ from the lab book. The introductory section of the book is used as a reference, and students are responsible for the entire book. Lab presentations refers to the presentations prepared for experiments or applied exams, which are posted on the lab's webpage. Students are expected to review the relevant presentation before attending the lab.
s- Excuses and Makeups: An excuse refers to a situation that meets the excuse conditions specified in the rules section of the web page and prevents a student from attending an experiment or exam. If a valid excuse is present, the student may be given the opportunity to conduct the experiment in another lab session, subject to excuse policies and availability. This opportunity is called a makeup.
t- Lab Partner: Refers to each student in a pair assigned by the lab instructor at the beginning of the semester to share the same table, conduct experiments together, collect data jointly, but perform data analysis individually.
u- Lab Equipment: Refers to all devices entrusted to students at the experiment tables in the lab classrooms by the school for the purpose of conducting experiments, which are to be left in the classroom at the end of the experiment.
v- Lab Report: Refers to the portion of the lab sheets excluding applied exam sheets and post-lab reports. Lab report is not graded, and students are free to take it with them at the end of the experiment.
w- Lab Schedule: This is the schedule announced in the first weeks of the semester, before the labs begin, showing which experiment of which course will be conducted in which classroom on which week and day. Experiments are carried out according to the order in this schedule.
1.3 Concepts not explained in Article 1.2 may be explained within other articles. Concepts that are not explained in other articles should be interpreted and understood according to the context.
1.4 The Summer terms may subject to different Lab Rules, explained in article 10.
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