Physics 110 Lab Information
Knox College Physics - Fall 2025

Lab Times Wednesdays in room D105 SMC.

Lab Instructor Tom Moses, D116 SMC, email tmoses@knox.edu

Lab Text A Physics 110 lab manual will be distributed to you in class. 

Lab Reports Honor Code Policy  You are encouraged to work together on lab reports and consult any book, tutors, other students, or professors. Lab partners may exchange data freely however they may only do so if they collected the data together. Whether or not you work with a partner(s) your final write-up must, of course, be your own unique product. In particular, duplicate reports, even from lab partners, are not allowed.  The use of AI such as chatGPT for lab reports is not allowed.

Click the link to see specific instructions for Preparing Lab Reports .

Experimental Errors and Significant Digits  Click the links for instructions on how to treat experimental uncertainty and how to report numerical results in your lab report: Error Analysis and Significant digits .

Introduction to Creating Graphs in Excel  If you are new to graphing data in Excel, here is a step-by step introduction : Excel Spreadsheet Basics .

Lab Report Due Date
Friday 4:00 PM, following the lab on Wednesday.  Turn in reports in the box in the hallway across from the laboratory.

Late Policy Late labs get a 10% deduction per(business) day.