Announcements

Saturday

July 30th

 ---The final letter grades can be found here.
--- I would really appreciate if you could fill out this survey on the use of clickers in this class. It will help me when I teach my next class.

Friday

July 29th

 --- A summary of all of your homework and quiz raw scores can be found Here. Check to see that everything is correct.
--- The final exam grades can be found here.
--- The final readingquiz grades can be found here.
--- The final clicker grades can be found here.
--- A final grade summary can be found here.
--- I will be deciding letter grades tomorrow. Please let me know if you see any mistakes with your grades.

Thursday

July 28th

 --- Thursday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.
The second half of it is a collection of what I think are the most important slides from the previous 15 lectures.

Wednesday

July 27th

 --- Wednesday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.
--- If you want to look at it ahead of time, you can download the equation sheet that will be provided for you at Friday's final here.
---Homework #5 solutions have been posted on the Homework page.
--- The correct answer to Ch. 10 number 6 should be 13.7 rad/s^2. That's a good, tricky problem. You should try it.

Tuesday

July 26th

 --- Tuesday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.

Monday

July 25th

 --- Monday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.

Sunday

July 24th

 --- Homework #5 has been posted on the Homework page. It will be due in class or by 1pm on Wednesday.

Saturday

July 23th

 --- Next week's reading assignments have been posted on the Reading Quiz page.

Friday

July 22th

 --- I had trouble uploading files yesterday, so I am only now posting the most recent clicker and reading quiz scores. You can check these out on the Grades page.
--- The report for Quiz 3 is now posted on the Grades page. Quiz 3 will be adjusted with a 10% horizontal shift to the right.
--- The final Quiz grades can be found on the Grades page. This is after adjusting for the horizontal shift and dropping the lowest quiz score.
--- The extra homework assignment has been posted on the Homework page.
--- Answers to the even numbered problems for this week's book assignment have been posted on the Homework page.
--- I realized there was a mistake in the way I was adjusting the final quiz grades before. My intension was to horizontally shift the grades after calculating their percentages. I have fixed this and it can be found on the Grades page.

Thursday

July 21th

 --- Looks like we will not get the grade report on Quiz 3 until tomorrow. I am posting the solutions to Version A on the Quizzes page.
--- I made a couple of mistakes on the solutions to the even numbered problems for problems 6-36, 7-32, and 7-28. These have now been corrected.
--- You will be receiving an email this weekend to participate in a survey about the classes you are taking. Please spend the few minutes necessary to give some feedback about this course. It will be extremely helpful.

Wednesday

July 20th

 --- Wednesday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.
---Homework #4 solutions have been posted on the Homework page.
---Ch 6 and 7 answers are posted on the Homework page.

Tuesday

July 19th

 --- Tuesday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.
--- If you want to look at it ahead of time, you can download the equation sheet that will be provided for you at this week's Quiz here.

Monday

July 18th

 --- Monday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.

Sunday

July 17th

 --- I think there might be a bunch of mistakes in the clicker and reading quiz grades that I posted yesterday. I had a lot of trouble matching up students with their ID numbers because I had to do that by hand. But I think I know how to do this now without making mistakes. I just don't have time to fix it right now.

Saturday

July 16th

 --- Homework #4 has been posted on the Homework page. It will be due in class or by 1pm on Wednesday.
--- The clicker grades so far are now posted on the Grades page.
--- The reading quiz grades so far are now posted on the Grades page

Friday

July 15th

 --- I apologize that next week's worksheet is not ready yet. I will definitely have it up by tonight. If you need to work ahead look at the assignments in the textbook.
--- I will be making an announcement about grades in class on Monday. I won't be able to answer questions about that until then. Please don't worry too much about it.

Thursday

July 14th

 ---The Tutorial Center will be closing early next Wednesday, July 20th. The floors are scheduled to be stripped and waxed starting at 4:30pm.
---I will be posting next week's reading assignment and extra homework later today. The Worksheet problems will be posted as soon as possible, so that you can get a head start on them for the weekend.
--- Quiz 2 grades are now posted on the Grades page.
--- I have decided to post the solutions to all the quizzes. I am also posting blank quizzes in case you want to practice by taking them over again, or by writing your own notes them. Check this out on the Quizzes page.
--- Next week's reading assignments are now posted on the Reading Quiz page.
--- Next week's extra problems are posted on the Homework page.

Wednesday

July 13th

 ---Homework #3 solutions have been posted on the Homework page.
---Wednesday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.

Tuesday

July 12th

 ---Tuesday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.
---I will be holding extra office hours today from 5-6pm in Mayer 5623.
--- If you want to look at it ahead of time, you can download the equation sheet that will be provided for you at this week's Quiz here.

Monday

July 11th

 ---Monday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.

Saturday

July 9th

 --- Homework #3 has been posted on the Homework page. It will be due in class or by 1pm on Wednesday. I think it is too much to expect you to complete all of it. But please try your best on as much of it as you can.

Friday

July 8th

 --- Next week's extra problems are posted on the Homework page.
--- Quiz 1 grades are now posted on the Grades page.
--- So it definitely was harder than I would have liked. But I think we will all know better how to be prepared for the next exams. There is a huge learning curve in learning to solve physics problems and you will definitely get better at it. In general I am really impressed and proud of you as a group.
--- Next week's reading assignments are now posted on the Reading Quiz page.
--- Solutions to the even numbered problems of next week's extra homework assignment are posted on the Homework page.

Thursday

July 7th

 --- Unfortunately the lady who runs the scantron office was not in today. So we won't find out the grades until tomorrow at the earliest. In order for you to assess how you did I am posting the quiz solutions Here. The different versions were a little bit shuffled, but this was Version A. If you have questions about the problems, please come to my office hour on Monday.
--- I will be posting next week's reading assignments, homework, extra homework, and extra homework solutions as soon as I get them done. Probably tonight.
--- If you have not already done so, please register your iclicker Here using your A######## student ID. I would like to sync up the clicker IDs so that I can post those grades this weekend.

Wednesday

July 6th

 ---Wednesday's's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.
---I said in lecture that Evan's office hours were today from 1-3pm but they are actually from 2-4pm!
---Homework #2 solutions have been posted on the Homework page.

Tuesday

July 5th

 ---Tuesdays's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.
---I will have make-up office hours tonight from 5-6pm in Mayer 5623.
--- If you want to look at it ahead of time, you can download the equation sheet that will be provided for you at the Quiz here.
---I will be announcing new changes to the rubric tomorrow.
(1) I will be dropping the lowest Quiz grade.
(2) I will keep both rubrics (the one with 5% reading quizzes and 15% homework versus the one with 10% for reading quizzes and 20% for Homework), and at the end of the class I will use the one that gives you the highest score.
---I have posted the answers to the Projectile motion problems from the textbook on the Homework page.

Friday

July 1st

 ---Wednesday's reading assignment has been posted on the Reading Quiz page. if you want to get ahead over the weekend.
---From now on I will post corrections to the homework on the Homework page. Note that there are already a few notes on Homework #2.
---I have decided to change how your final grade will be calculated:
Quizzes 40%
Final Exam 40%
Homework 15%
Reading Quizzes 5%
Clickers 5% (Extra Credit)
This has been changed on the Course Info page.

Thursday

June 30th

 ---The reading assignment has been posted on the Reading Quiz page.
---Homework #1 solutions have been posted on the Homework page.
---Homework #2 has been posted on the Homework page. It will be due in class or by 1pm on Wednesday.
---I will have make up office hours next Tuesday from 5-6 PM.
---Thursday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.
---The podcast can be found here..

Wed

June 29th

 ---The reading assignment has been posted on the Reading Quiz page.
---The extra homework problems (the one's you won't have to turn in) have been posted to the Homework page.
---Wednesday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.

Tues

June 28th

 ---The reading assignment has been posted on the Reading Quiz page.
---Tuesdays's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.
---There's a little typo in this week's homework. On the top of the second page, problem 2.1.g should read "Solve for mu: m * v^2 * r=mu * m *g "
---This week's homework will now be due on Thursday June 30th.
--- Next week's homework will still be due Wednesday, July 6th. It should be posted by this Thursday.

Mon

June 27th

 ---Monday's lecture is now posted in the Calendar.
---The correct answers to the clicker questions have green boxes around them in the slides I have posted.
---Let me know if you have trouble opening any of the posted documents.
---Evan's office hours have been posted to the Course Info page.
---This week only he will hold office hours from 1-2pm and 3-4pm in the Physics tutorial center (Mayer 2702).
---The scantrons you need for the Quizes/Exam are X101864-PAR-L

Sun

June 26th

 ---Homework #1 has been posted on the Homework page.
---The reading assignment has been posted on the Reading Quiz page.

June 22th

 ---Please purchase an iclicker from the UCSD bookstore. The are not required but you will be able to earn up to 5 points extra credit and we will use them to take in-class reading quizes.
---The textbook for the class is Serway and Jewitt's Principles of Physics which you will need to complete the daily reading assignments.