I despise this class. It's better than 4AL, but it still sucks. Make sure to review someone else's later labs from 4AL/BL to get a hang of the formatting. This class is a formatting class. It's an absolute waste of time and the curve is ridiculous. I was in a class of 9 people, and I am pretty sure I was 3rd overall. Each rank got a different grade, from what I heard (1st - A, 2nd - A-, 3rd - B+ etc).

Make sure you ask your TA for formatting advice/show them your labs before you submit them.

On the bright side, you usually don't need the entire 3 hours for the lab. Get started early because starting the lab the night before it's due is a killer.

The quizzes are easy in that you have 3 tries. The questions stay the same, but the numbers switch.

The trick to this class is to schmooz your TA because they are likely a master's engineering student who doesn't give a fuck. Take the time to learn LaTeX before you take this class. I spent the week before the quarter started to figure out how to code and format with it and my lab reports looked very beautiful.

Make your worksheets a bit dense, not too much but minimum 2 sentences, have consistent formatting, DRAW NICE COLORFUL FIGURES! I got a 60% on my first lab report but for all the rest of them I consistently became the top score in the class as the reports got more involved since I mastered LaTeX and drew a bunch of basic figures in powerpoint. I typed up a bunch of bullshit, our experiments wouldn't work every now and then but it looked nice.

The workload gets better after the first one.

Just a formatting class. Don't be naive and think you will actually be learning physics or useful lab skills in this class. 99% of your grade in this class is how well you can follow the lab manual which is extremely unclear, but this won't stop your TA from deducting points from your scores. And the curved grading in this class is hell. Your final grade is purely based on how well you performed compared to your classmates, even if you get 95% in the class you could still end up with a C. If Campbell is teaching this course try to take it during the summer to avoid this hell.