Students’ projects for spring quarter are turning out to be very varied. Here are a few answers to student questions.

Project Outputs

•  For literature- or lab-based projects, you will be submitting two outputs: A review or research paper, and a 20-minute Powerpoint presentation during Science Carnival.
• If you are taking an online course instead of completing a project, your sole output for the quarter will be a certificate of completion from the online course (along with other process checks agreed to with your supervising faculty). If your course does not offer such a certificate, check in with Robin for acceptable output.

Class time devoted to Student Projects

• Thursday, 9-10 am every week, will be devoted to project process time and/or check-ins.
• Weeks 26-29 of what would normally be chemistry lab time (Tues 9-12) will be devoted to project work. Some of this will be open time to do lab work if necessary, and some will be devoted to process elements (like peer review of presentations).
• There will also be time carved from physics (exact times still TBA).

Approximate Timeline

• Week 21: Draft of project proposal due by 9 am Thursday (4/5). We will refine this draft during project time to include learning objectives.
• Week 22: Final project proposal due 9 am Thursday (4/12). First set of students do proposal/background presentations.
• Week 23: Second set of students do proposal/background presentations
• Week 24: Annotated bibliography due 9 am 4/23. Students discuss annotated bibliographies with Robin.
• Week 25: no in-class project work–get a solid draft ready for week 26!
• Week 26: Peer Review of first half of papers (Introduction/Background, Materials and Methods, Preliminary Results/Analysis/Discussion)
• Week 27: First set of students do preliminary results presentations
• Week 28: Second set of students do preliminary results presentations
• Week 29:
  • (Tues/Wed): final presentations for faculty/other project students
  • (Fri) present at Science Carnival (NOTE: All students in M&M are to attend Science Carnival Presentations, please arrange your schedules)
• Week 30: Final project papers due 9 am Thursday

• Chemistry: McMurray & Fay 13.1-13.4; 13.5-13.6
• Math: Stewart 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 (stop after Example 5 in section 8.3)
  • Math Reading Responses due via WebAssign 3pm Sun. Apr. 1
    
• Physics: Wolfson 14.1-14.2; 29
  • Physics Reading Response due via MasteringPhysics 6pm Sun. Apr. 1

• No quizzes in Week 21, but we still meet during those times.
• Week 22 Reading for those who would like to read ahead
  • Chemistry: 14.1-14.3,14.15; 14.4-14.7
  • Math: 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, and review Math Lab 6
  • Physics: 30, 31

• Exam Revisions are due Mon. Mar. 19 by 9am to faculty offices
  • Specific information about Math Exam 4 Revisions and Reflections here
• Winter Conference Schedule here (note you will need to be logged in to access)

A few of you have asked about turning in corrections for physics Quiz 14. If you have any to turn in, please bring them to the potluck.

Attached is a “revision edition” of the Physics exam. If you choose to submit corrections/revisions please do so using this version of the exam (which is “compressed;” you’ll need to answer on separate sheets of paper).

Download (PDF, 377KB)

One super last-minute reminder – we meet in the Library today, at 9 AM for the Physics exam (room 1001) and at 1 PM in room 1005 for the Math (and then Chemistry) exam revision workshops.

As a reminder, you will be allowed one 8.5″ x 11″ sheet for equations, etc. as well as a calculator (phone is OK) for the exam.

To further clarify what I mean with regard to whether DC circuits are on the exam, there is certainly material on circuits in other chapters than Ch. 25; in particular, I do expect you to be able to deal with power in simple circuits, Ohm’s Law, and the transient behaviors of RC and LC circuits. What I will not ask you to do is extensive circuit analysis or find equivalent values for components in series, parallel, and more complex configurations.

As a final reminder, you should bring any corrections from the last quiz, as well as your physics problem set notebook, to the exam.

The checklists below are nearly the same as what you received in week 15. If you have been updating those, no need to use these new forms unless you prefer. If you lost your previous checklist(s), then use these.

• Winter Quarter Chemistry
• Winter Quarter Math
• Winter Quarter Physics

See this post for our Week 20 Schedule