Clickers today

Bring your CPS clickers to class today. We will have some CPS questions for those who have registered up from within Webcourses. One bonus point per day for everyone who can register before Sept. 7! That day, Friday, Sept. 7, will be the due date for getting registered for CPS activity.

Webcourses is cleared for re-launch.

Everybody can now go back in to Webcourses. The two sections now are in separate areas, PSC1121 - 07Fall_0001 and PSC1121 - 07Fall_0002.

You can now register your CPS response units directly from inside Webcourses, and I can see that several of you have already done so. Good. We will do our first CPS sessions on Friday. One bonus point for whoever gets registered up by next Friday, Sept. 7. On Friday, Sept. 7, we will have the first official CPS session in lecture.

By the by, it looks like the first two HW assignments evaporated when the Webcourses admin split the sections apart. Therefore, we will do them again, with a new due date, and since you should now be experts on these two assignmenst, grades should be perfect!!! :)

We will have a new HW assignment after Friday's lecture!

Stay off Webcourses 'til I give the OK.

We are making final adjustments to Webcourses so that CPS will link in smoothly. So for the next day or so, don't go in to Webcourses. I will announce here when it is OK to go back in to Webcourses.

By the by, you can read ahead in chapter 3 for Friday.

Baseball podcast

There is a new visual podcast concerning baseball acceleration at the Uvision site. It is from the problem solving manual (PSM).

Supplemental instruction schedule

SI session times and locations for PSC 1121 are:

Mondays	3:00 – 3:50 PM	COMM 115
Tuesdays	1:30 – 2:20 PM	HPA 110
Wednesdays	3:00 – 3:50 PM	COMM 115
Thursdays	1:30 – 2:20 PM	HPA 110

Try to make as many sessions as your personal schedule permits: even one per week will help.

Sign in method via my.ucf.edu portal

In case you encounter weird password troubles at the standard Webcourses sign-in page,

http://webcourses.ucf.edu

you can also try the My.UCF.edu portal. They have a new sign-in feature that will show all your online course areas, whether in the old WebCT or the new Webcourses.

Instructions for New! Online Course Tools Tab.

The modification to your portal page is kind of weird - you deactivate some stuff in order to activate the new tab. But it seems to work. Here is what the new "Online Course Tools" tab looks like on my portal page,


(dark grey tab by fountain)

More lovely homework

There is now a new homework for each section. Click the yeloow pickup truck icon in the course home page.

Also, the assignment #1 is extended til Wednesday, as I promised.

Go for it!!!

Homework 1 is now ready.

Each section has its first homework assignment of the semester:

1. early bird section, Homework 1 sec. 0001
2. lunch bunch, Sec. 0002 Homework 1

Click on the yellow truck icon on the home page. You will only see the one assignment, the one for your section. The other section's homework will be invisible to you.

You'll have three attempts, 25 minutes for each attempt, so if you get tripped up, go back and study a bit. The questions are about syllabus concepts from Friday's lecture and from ch. 1 and ch. 2 readings. Webcourses will report your best score.

This is the first of many HW assignments that, by semester's end, will convert to 25 points on your semester grade. These are "for real" so do not slack.

Study assignment for Monday, Aug. 27

1. Read ch. 1, pp. 6-11: especially "Powers of Ten" and exercises 1-12, p. 13.

2. Read ch. 2, all of it, especially study strobe figures 2-2, 2-4, 2-6, plus questions 12, 27 on p. 29, and exercise 16, p. 31. Uvision has new podcasts and WebCT will have our first homework assignment this weekend.

3. Get clickers! Monday we will get moving with CPS activity.

Uvision, new podcasts up

There are two new podcasts at Uvision. They are related to chapter 2 studies of motion.

http://web.mac.com/uvision

Skateboards

Bring your skateboard to lecture for the next few lectures. We will need visible velocity that can be measured.

Textbooks

Required Textbook

You can purchase this at the UCF bookstore and elsewhere. Authors: Kirkpatrick and Francis Title: Physics: A World View ISBN: 049501088X Edition: 6 Publisher: Thomson

Recommended Textbooks

I will talk about these books during the first week of lectures, and you can decide then whether you'd like to purchase them.


1. Authors: Kirkpatrick and Francis
   Title: Problem Solving for Physics: A World View
   ISBN: 0495010936
   Edition: 6
   Publisher: Thomson


2. Authors: Efthimiou, Hampton, Llewellyn and Winningham
   Title: Preliminary Edition of UCF Kirkpatrick Supplement
   ISBN: 1426628501
   Publisher: Thomson