Models of Motion – 2014-15

• Rachel has office hours Wed. Oct. 29 from 2:00 – 3:00
• Krishna has office hours Thu. Oct. 30 from 1:30 – 2:30
• Seth has tutor hours Thu. Oct. 30 from 3:00 – 5:00 in Sem 2 E2107

You can find the workshop activity for today’s Pre-Seminar at the Week 5 Calendar page for Tue. Oct. 28 or here.

For Tue. Oct. 28, meet for Physics Lab as usual, and still meet for Problem Session from noon – 1:30 in Sem 2 E3105 as usual. No special preparation is required for Problem Session, but bring your notes and your exam note-card.

For Pre-Seminar:

• Group B meets 9:00 – 10: 30 in Library 2617 (in the Academic Computing Center)
• Group A meets 2:00 – 3:30 in CAL East

The Pre-Seminar activity will be posted to the Week 5 Calendar page when you arrive.

You can find password-protected solutions to the week 4 Calculus and Physics Problem Sets linked at the Week 4 Calendar page, in the Assignments area for each subject.

The Week 5 Calendar page is available. Problem Set assignments are still to be determined and will be added.

Hi all. Some of the answers provided in the back of the physics book are incorrect. Here are the correct answers:

• 7.57: a) 15 m/s, b) 27 J, c) 27 J
• 7.79: 0.066 J

Because of the midterm exam, the week 5 schedule is slightly different. Please look this over and bring your questions for discussion during Problem Session on Thu. Oct. 23; we’ll add any clarifying information after that discussion as needed.

• Sat. Oct. 25: no Seminar Papers due
• Sun. Oct. 26: no Reading Response due (moved to Tue. Oct. 28)
• Mon. Oct. 27:
  • 9:00 – 10:00 Quiz 4 on Week 4 material
  • 10:00 – 11:00 Open Review
  • 11:00 – 12:00 Break
  • 12:00 – 3:00 Exam 1 (details below) in Lecture Hall 2
• Tue. Oct. 28:
  • Regular Schedule, but with special required activities scheduled during Pre-Seminar and Problem Session (details to be announced)
  • Writing Group 1 submits Ch. 3.1-3.3 Seminar Paper revisions to faculty by 9 am
  • Reading Response due by 6 pm via MasteringPhysics
• Wed. Oct. 29: Regular Schedule
• Thu. Oct. 30: Regular Schedule, Seminar Reading handed out Thu. Oct. 23
• Fri. Oct. 31: Calculus Problem Set due by 3 pm, Physics Problem Set due by 11:59 pm
• Sat. Nov. 1: Writing Group 2 posts Ch. 3.4-3.7 Seminar Paper by 11:59 pm

Exam 1 info

• Exam 1 will be on Mon. Oct. 27 from noon – 3:00 pm in Lecture Hall 2
• Coverage includes all material in calculus and physics from weeks 1 – 4, including material from reading, lectures, labs, and homework assignments.
• You may use your calculator (though not its graphing capabilities) and your writing tools of choice. Scratch paper will be provided.
• You may use a personally-prepared, hand-written, 3 inch x 5 inch notecard.

• Rachel has office hours on Wed. Oct. 22 from 2 – 3 1:30 – 3:00.
• Krishna has office hours on Thu. Oct. 23 from 1:30 – 2:30

In case you need it, you can print out a copy of the Cover Sheet for your Seminar Paper revisions. We’ll generally have some available before-hand but in the event you miss picking one up or misplace it, you can get your own.

You can find password-protected solutions to the week 3 Calculus Problem Set (even numbered problems) and Physics Problem Set linked at the Week 3 Calendar page, in the Assignments area for each subject.