Office hours for the final on Monday, May 5:
8:30-9:30 Ed Graef
9:30-11:30 Utsab Khadka
11:30-12:30 Rajendra Adhikari
12:30-2:30 Utsab Khadka
2:30-4 Stephen Charter
4-6 Arnab Mitra
The same warning about the three types of gravity problems that you were given for the homework of course holds for the final.
Friday office hours are as usual, except Dr. Stewart will be having an office hour from 12:30-2.
Welcome to UPI! Take a few minutes and make sure you can find everything on the website.
Lecture 24 is here
Lecture 25 is here
Lecture 26 is here
Lecture 27 is here
Lecture 28 is here
Animations from Lecture 27 and 28 are here
An easier to print version, but not identical of Lecture 27 is here
Lecture 29 is here
Lecture 30, how to study for the final, is here
Click Here for extra Enhanced Learning Center info, including sign up!
Click Here for a story of a pretty amazing example of physics in action!
I particularly liked this Thought du Jour, as it is part of what we are trying to accomplish with this class and the freshman engineering program: “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.” – Robert M. Hutchins
Doing Well in UPI
· Print the
Notes: Print the study guide and do the required reading as you work the self test problems. Mark points in the study guide and text that you do not understand and ask questions about them. Bring the study guide to lecture and follow along adding as needed. I do examples in lecture and talk a bit more about what things mean.
· Work the Homework: Do
the homework as independently as possible. Come to office hours for help on
problems you can't do or even do not COMPLETELY understand. You need to understand the homework to do well on the tests.
· Read the Activity:
Read the activity before you come to lab. You will get more out of it and you will get done on time. There is usually a pre-lab set of questions to complete to encourage you to do this. You will lose points if these aren't done.
· Bring Your Notes to
Lab: We often work problems together or use results from lecture in lab. You
need your notes.
· Work the Practice
Tests: Work the practice test under exam conditions (you can allow three hours) using only the formula sheet. Identify the kinds of problems with which you have trouble. Come and get help in time. The second practice test for each exam gets published early with solutions. The first will be assigned as homework right before the test, and will count as either homework or a lecture quiz.
· Review the Homework
Solutions: Read through the published solutions before the test, preferably as soon as you get your homework back, so you can find any fine details that you missed that we weren't grading for. We do not grade homework in close detail, so the solutions will give you more information, including detailed grading keys for some problems that would look like how they would be
graded on a test. You are responsible for understanding everything in the homework, whether or not we grade it!
BTW: If you just want a grade and don't actually want to learn some physics, please
take this course somewhere else and transfer it in. Our goal in this class is to make sure you UNDERSTAND enough to help you be successful in later courses.
Attitudes and Beliefs Survey is here
Answers to some questions a lot of students had right at the beginning of class last semester:
Please look carefully at the syllabus, it will clear up a lot of things.
The online homework that you submit is at the top of the homepage. Once everyone has submitted it, I will go online and suck down your answers, ask the computer to grade it, then post your grades. The homework menus on the left serve you copies you can print. More useful for solutions, but you can also suck them down for review once the links to the submission versions are gone (which will happen at 8:20 am).
There will be two types of homework listed every day, just to keep the numbers in sequence. On any day that is not the first lecture of the week, only the online homework will require anything. The other will say something to the effect that there is only an online homework today (like homework 1 and 2, only 3 has problems in it).
The syllabus devotes a few lines to the reading too. The chapter sections given in the grid, are, as explained on the syllabus, for the 2005 edition. If you have an earlier edition, go to the study guide and see what the section names are, to "convert". You will only need to do this in chapters 3 and 4. After that, all editions are close to the same.
The study guide link is to the left here. The first two chapters and anything else interesting that you can't find in the menu to the left is under "Additional Info", which is in the menu to the left. Click on it, and see what is there. But first, please read all the way to the bottom of this page!!!!!!!
The experiment is listed on the syllabus, and the formal lab write-up will be over the experiment. The write up will be due a week after you do the experiment.
Most of you will take the final in this classroom. (I am assuming many of you will have an A without it.) Once we know how many people need to take the final (the last day of class) we will assign people to the overflow room as needed. This will be more important for the final, where there is a time limit. For the exams during the semester, we will work it out the first test, and stay with it for the rest. We have additional space reserved so we can spread out.
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