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15. 29 May 15:15 hrs:  Be sure to  bring plenty of scratch paper. Do your calculations first on the scratch paper and then write major steps and the final answer in the boxed space provided in the exam sheet. 

14. 27 May 23:15 hrs: The Exam will have four questions, with parts,  that should take you about 8 minutes per question on average.  The exam questions will be nothing like the pre-lab 2-min quiz Qs.  Practicing on pre-Lab quizzes is a waste of your time. Therefore Quiz Qs and their answers will not be published on website. 

Focus instead on  the 3 Assignments, Lecture slides, and your Lab reports.

13.  May 27, 23:00 hrs : At the "CLOSED BOOK " Course exam on 2nd June in York 2722  lecture hall, you will be handed  stapled sheets of paper containing  questions and a generously sized boxed spaces in which to CLEARLY write your answers. They will also an "official cheat sheet" include all the formulae that you would ever need to ace the exam.  The "official" Cheat sheets are here.  Pl. familiarize yourself  with its content well before the exam so that you  know  what-is-where on these sheets. If it makes you happy, feel free to bring your own sheet  (of any size , written on front and back). We don't care because what matters most in the exam is how attentively you did the Labs and wrote the Lab reports.

12. May 18, 22:50 hrs: The Course exam will be on  Monday ,June 2nd during Lecture hour. The exam will be CLOSED BOOK. An extensive set of "cheat sheets" will be provided with the exam and also  posted here in advance so that students can familiarize themselves. In addition, students may bring a 1 page cheat sheet of their own (if they want). In addition to weekly assignments, Lab manuals  and lecture notes, please make sure you have reviewed your graded Lab reports.  No Blue book or scantron heet is needed. You will write major steps of your work on the Exam sheets in the space provided. DO bring some sheets of paper for rough work.

11. May 2nd 21:30 hrs.  The accuracy/uncertainty in the angular measurement of the Klein Inclinometer  used in Lab2 (& onwards)  is 1/10 degrees

10. April 15, 01:30 hrs Revised Lab1 manual available here.

9. April 14, 11:30 hrs Revised Lab0 manual available here 

8. April 12, 21:30 hrs Some info for Week3 :

a. By popular request, I am converting  for this time only  my Office Hour to a special Problem Solving Session for the 3rd problem set. It will be on Monday April 14th between  4:30-5:30pm in MYR-A 5623  Conference room . 

b. Your 2BL experiments  start  this Tuesday  15th April with  LAB 0  (which  introduces you to common tools used in the 5  set of experiments you will perform). You will take 15-min  & 3Q  quiz as soon as you are seated. The quiz will be "open book, open every thing". But given it's 15 minute duration, I suggest  you  do the required  prep work before showing up for quiz. There may not  be time to look up answers to Quiz Qs.

Check and note, in advance,  your Lab Table seating chart.  You  will be on the same Table with same teammates and you will interact with the same TA for all of 2BL Labs and report grading.  Pl. report on time, perhaps 5 min before. The Quiz clock starts exactly at the scheduled start of the Lab section. Late arrival means less time to do 15 min Quiz.  Very late arrivals may be turned back and refered  to the Prof. for remedial action, if any. Don't be late!

c. Be sure to read, in advance, the first day handout and the revised Lab0 Manual posted on 2BL website. You can not do this (or any other 2BL lab) without a handy copy of the  Lab manual. You may either bring a printed hardcopy or download the PDF,  in advance, on a device  that you will bring to Lab or try  your luck  accessing it online during the Lab session. The choice is yours and  you are responsible for the outcome.

7. April 12, 21:30 hrs:  Week2 HW sols posted here.

6. April 3rd, 22:30 hrs:  Week1 HW sols posted here.

5. April 3rd, 19:40 hrs: The student who left a water flask duing the PS session, should email 2bl@ucsd.edu  (always with Section #, Last name & first name in the subject line) to arrange a pickup from 2BL Lab,

4. April 1, 23:00 hrs: Since many students (who did not attend the Week 1 lecture) asked, there is a Canvas page for this course (  https://canvas.ucsd.edu/courses/65461   )  where the lab grades will be posted. 

Further, we are experimenting  to see if we can use Canvas also for administering short quizzes (3  short Questions answered in 15 min) at the start of the Lab session  to verify a students's  suitability to continue further  in the Lab session.  The Quiz will be based entirely on your understanding of the  Monday lectures, All assigned problem sets  and that week's required Lab Manual reading in advance of the Lab session.More on this in the next lecture (ps: dont miss 2BL's once-a-week lectures. They set you up critically for the events of that week!)

3. Mar 31 17:00 hrs: The Course Handout is uploaded. All information is up-to-date,

2.  March 30, 20:00 hrs: Academic Integrity pledge to read, sign & email to 2bl@ucsd.edu  at the start of week 3 lab session is here . In your email, always write your section# & name in the subject line and do not forget to attach the signed pdf.

 1. March  28, 19:00 hrs : First lecture will be on Monday March 31st  at 6:00pm in 2722 YORK . In Week 1 (starting March 31)  Pl. read the first three short chapters of the Error Analysis text book (by Taylor) and Professor's lecture slides before doing the assigned Week 1 HW problems.