Stanley Micklavzina
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Teaching Assistant: Herbert Grotewohl
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We will be using an Web Based Homework system call Mastering Physics.. You will submit most of your homework answsers via computer. This is to give quick feedback to homework questions. You will will be allowed a stated number of attempts to submit a correct assingment. (Homework can be saved. This would not count as a submission) THE DUE DATES ARE SET AND NO LATE HOMEWORK WILL BE GRADED. Note: the values for the problems in the web question will be different for each student. If you figure out how to solve the problem as a group, you will still have to calculate your values for your own answer. The WEB based homework frees up Teaching Assistant time for teaching you in office hours rather than grading. UTILIZE OFFICE HOURS FOR HELP IN THE COURSE AND HOMEWORK!
Campus Computing Lab Hours and Info is here if you do not have easy access to the computer network.
The homework will help you keep pace with the course and the feedback will let you know how well you are doing.
Tutorials:
In additional to your three lectures, you are required to attend the tutorial session each week. Tutorials begin on Friday October 1. The tutorial sessions are held in Room 101 LLCS at 12:00 and 1:00 p.m. You must attend the tutorial session that you are registered in Clickers are required for the Tutorial Session. If you do not yet own a clicker, you can opurchase an iClicker at the Bookstore..
Objectives: Tutorials give you the opportunity to discuss the physics you have experienced in lectures with your classmates, myself and the teaching assistants. With our support, you will also work collaboratively with your classmates to solve a set of tutorial problems. Given out at the beginning of each tutorial, these problems are designed to help you with your homework by developing and practicing your problem solving skills. You will be given a solution set to the tutorial problems at the end of each tutorial. The tutorial problems are not marked but attendance will be taken at each tutorial (see Grading Section ).
Further help: in addition to your tutorial session and your teaching assistant’s weekly office hours, you can also use the “drop in” help-center: located at Willamette Room 147. Schedules are listed at the room and are also available in the Physics office..
The homework and exam dates are posted. Homeworks are due by the posted time. The exams are cumulative, because the material is all realted. However, each exam will cover the application of what was learned between exams. The exam questions will test your knowledge of the material AND your ability to communicate clearly. The final exam is a cummulative exam.
Grading Method |
Mastering Physics: 25% |
Hand-In HW Problems: 5% |
Tutorials: 10% |
Term Exams 35% |
Final Exam 25% |
A few more notes, and some advice:
Successful Problem solving: Here’s a few guidelines on solving problems:
Every effort will be made in this class to deter dishonesty through classroom procedures. You are all welcome to work in groups on Homework assignments, but each person must submit their own assignment on-line. Additionally, exams must be based on individual work only (i.e. don't look at someone else's exam). It is degrading to impose draconian security measures to enforce honesty. Instead, we will use the honor system in this course and allow each of you to uphold your personal standards of conduct. For those of you who have failed to develop your own ethics, the University has designed the Student Conduct Program. Suspected academic dishonesty will be reported.
If you have a documented disability and anticipate needing accommodations in this course, please see me as soon as possible. Please request that the Counselor for Students with Disabilities send a letter verifying your disability.