• Chemistry Quiz Revisions are due 9 am on Thursday, October 9
• Who should submit a Chemistry Quiz Revision? All students are invited to submit a Chemistry Quiz revision for as many problems as they care to revise. It is strongly suggested that anyone who got a straight-face or frowning emoji on a problem revise and resubmit their work.

• Chemistry Quiz Revision Detailed Guidelines
  • You may utilize any resource available to you, but submitted work must reflect your own personal understanding of the material.
  • The care you take in presenting your work will be considered when evaluating it, so pay attention to organization, neatness, etc.
  • Revisions must be neat, complete, and presented in a logical, clear-to-understand fashion.
  • Since these are revisions, a higher standard will be used to evaluate your responses. Essentially, your revised solutions should be of the highest quality you can produce.
  • You may revise any problems you choose, and must present a complete solution to any problem you choose to revise (not just a part of a problem).
  • For multiple choice/fill-in-the-blank type questions, your revised solution should completely and clearly explain your reasoning (even though no explanation was required on the original quiz).

Next week will be our first seminar from 9 – 11am on Wed. Oct. 11, which will necessitate some other schedule adjustments already noted on the last page of the Syllabus.

The readings for the seminar focus on issues of representation in the sciences, with emphasis on gender and socioeconomic status:

• “Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?”
• “Is Science Only for the Rich?”

We will hand out paper copies of these articles in class Monday so that you can mark those with your annotations and questions, and have them available during Seminar (without people using electronic devices during the discussion).

Pre-Seminar Writing Assignment. Beyond reading the two articles, we would like for you to respond in writing to the following prompts. Please type up your responses and bring them with you, along with the two reading handouts, to Seminar. Faculty will check these for completion and they will serve as your Seminar Entrance Ticket.

1. (not for class discussion) Which stories or experiences described in the two pieces are similar to your own? (This response is private; we will not require you to share this writing with anyone else.)
2. (for discussion) What was one specific element of the reading you found particularly striking or surprising? Why? This should be a story, experience, piece of data or research finding. Your typed response should quote, paraphrase, or summarize the element, indicate article and page, and describe why you chose it. (You may choose more than one).
3. (for discussion) What actions or behaviors can students undertake that address issues specifically raised in these articles and fosters an inclusive and anti-bias learning environment in our math and science classroom?
4. (for discussion) What actions or behaviors can faculty undertake that address issues specifically raised in these articles and fosters an inclusive and anti-bias learning environment in our math and science classroom?

• Chemistry: McMurray & Fay 2.14, 3.1 – 3.8
• Math: Stewart 2.4 – 2.6
  • Math Reading Response due via WebAssign 6pm Sun. Oct. 8
• Physics: Wolfson 3.6, 4.1 – 4.2
  • Physics Reading Response due via MasteringPhysics 8pm Sun. Oct. 8
• Seminar Reading for Wed. Oct. 11

• Blank copy of Physics Quiz #1
• Physics Quiz #1 Revisions are due 9am Wed. Oct. 11
  

• Who should submit a Physics Quiz Revision? Everyone should submit a Physics Quiz #1 Revision (details below) at least for the problem indicated (this will be the number in a box on the top of the front side of the quiz for Quiz 1). You may also choose to revise answers to as many of the other problems as you choose.

• Physics Quiz Revision Detailed Guidelines
  • You may utilize any resource available to you, but submitted work must reflect your own personal understanding of the material.
  • The care you take in presenting your work will be considered when evaluating it, so pay attention to organization, neatness, etc.
  • Revisions must be neat, complete, and presented in a logical, clear-to-understand fashion.
  • Since these are revisions, a higher standard will be used to evaluate your responses. Essentially, your revised solutions should be of the highest quality you can produce.
  • You may revise any problems you choose, and must present a complete solution to any problem you choose to revise (not just a part of a problem).
  • For future Physics Quiz Revisions, there will be a designated problem for which you will be expected to apply the textbook’s IDEA framework (as I did in class Wednesday with the Mars lander problem). (This week’s quiz consisted only of unit conversions, which are too simple to make use of that problem solving framework worthwhile.)

• Math Lab 2. No need to print, paper copies will be available in lab.
• PART 5: META-COGNITIVE REFLECTION. Reflect on and write (briefly) about your learning in this activity.
  • Type up your responses and staple neatly to the end of the lab handout.
  • Time/length: Spend no more than 10 minutes on this part, and somewhere between 100 and 300 words long.
  • Here are some prompts to help get you started. What prior knowledge/learning did this lab build on? What was a struggle for you? What did you learn, or learn better? What did you encounter that was surprising, or interesting? What are you still wondering about, both in terms of the content and your own process?
• PART 6: FURTHER EXTENSION EXPLORATIONS ON LIMITS OF DIFFERENCE QUOTIENTS (if you have time/interest). Particularly recommended if much of the current work is review for you.

• Blank copy of Math Quiz #1
• Math Quiz #1 Revisions are due 9am Mon. Oct. 9

• Who should submit a Math Quiz Revision? All students are invited to submit a Math Quiz #1 Revision (details below) for as many problems as you choose to revise and resubmit.

• Math Quiz Revision Detailed Guidelines
  • You may utilize any resource available to you, but submitted work must reflect your own personal understanding of the material.
  • The care you take in presenting your work will be considered when evaluating it, so pay attention to organization, neatness, etc.
  • Revisions must be neat, complete, and presented in a logical, clear-to-understand fashion.
  • Since these are revisions, a higher standard will be used to evaluate your responses. Essentially, your revised solutions should be of the highest quality you can produce.
  • You may revise any problems you choose, and must present a complete solution to any problem you choose to revise (not just a part of a problem).
  • For multiple choice/fill-in-the-blank type questions, your revised solution should completely and clearly explain your reasoning (even though no explanation was required on the original quiz).

• Physics Problem Set #1 Solutions
  • Compare these solutions to what is in your Physics PSN.
  • Make notes, corrections, or complete problems using a different color ink directly in your PSN.
  • This (along with looking over lecture and lab notes) will serve as excellent preparation for the Physics Quiz.
  • These solutions also serve as a model of what your notebook might look like.

Hi everyone. Through only my fault, your WebAssign account will indicate that you didn’t complete Math PS#1, even thought nearly all of you did, and won’t display your score. Please don’t worry about this. -Krishna

The Chemistry Lab Manual is available in the program file share, under Handouts: Chemistry: Labs. You can access the program fileshare via your my.evergreen.edu.

Here are some Desmos graphs that were shown in Math Lecture 2.1:

• This graph plots f(t) vs. t, g(t) vs. t, and the parametric curve of g(t) vs. f(t). You can adjust f(t) and g(t) along with the restrictions on the parameter.
• This graph shows a cycloid being generated.