Models of Motion – 2014-15

You may bring a single personally prepared 3 inch by 5 inch note card with you to Monday’s quiz. You may write on both sides of the card.

Seth will have tutoring hours 2-4 TODAY (Wednesday 1/7) in the Fishbowl on the 3rd floor of Lab 2 (opposite Rachel’s office).  Note that the location will probably be changed in future weeks.

Seth’s tutoring hours this quarter will be as follows (rooms TBA below):

Wednesday 2-4 in Sem II D3105

Thursday 4-6 in Sem II E2107

Friday 3-5 3:30-5:30 in Sem II E2107

You can find a preliminary version of the first week of winter quarter (Week 11) Calendar page posted through the Calendar link in the menu bar above or directly via this link.

We look forward to starting our winter quarter!

• Our first class meeting is Monday January 5 starting promptly at 9 am in Lecture Hall 2.
• Please come prepared to get started right away, so bring your notebooks, etc.
• Our regular class schedule is provided here. Though we won’t have a quiz the very first day, we still meet at 9 am on Mon. Jan. 5.
• There are Reading Assignments for physics and math for the first day of class.

Please read the following for the first week of winter quarter (week 11). Stay tuned for a detailed Week 11 Calendar page.

• Strang 5.1 – 5.3
• Relativity Reader Ch. 1 & Ch. 2
• Simonyi 5.1 – 5.4
• Strogatz “From Fish to Infinity” (linked from Steve Strogatz’s Elements of Math series of articles in the New York Times)

• You can view a copy of our Relativity Reader here.
• We will provide you with a paper copy of the Relativity Reader early in the first week of winter quarter.

• As announced previously, Exam 2 Revisions should be included in your Portfolio, due 9 am Thu. Dec. 11 outside Rachel’s office Lab 2 room 3268.
• Make sure to note any included Exam 2 Revisions on your portfolio’s Table of Contents as well as a clear visual indication of where to find them.
• The calculus exam was out of 48 points. If you earned <20 points, you must complete an exam revision. If you earned < 24 points, you are encouraged to complete a revision.
• The physics exam consisted of a multiple choice conceptual portion (questions 1 – 8, worth 43 points) and a problem-solving portion (questions 9 – 12, worth 32 points).
  • If you scored < 20 points on the multiple choice conceptual portion, you must complete an exam revision.
  • If you scored < 16 points on the problem-solving portion, you must complete an exam revision.
• Submit your original exam along with your revision in your portfolio.
• 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 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 questions, your revised solution should completely and clearly explain your reasoning.

• You can find the fall quarter Evaluation Conference schedule here.
• Please double-check and make sure you have the correct conference time noted down and that you know where to meet for your conference.

• Exam 2 begins at 9:00 am Tue. Dec. 9 in Library 1540 and will be collected at noon that day.
• You may bring 2 (two) personally prepared 3 inch by 5 inch note cards to the exam, along with your calculator and writing tools. Scratch paper will be provided.

• A Self-Evaluation draft-writing workshop begins at 1:00 pm Tue. Dec. 9 in Sem 2 E3105.

You can find solutions to the week 9 Calculus and Physics Problem Sets linked at the Week 9 Calendar page, in the Assignments area for each subject.