Rapid

That has to be a record for getting exams graded and back: about three hours, same day. Excellent!

However, be aware: it will not always be so rapid!

Exam 1 grades up: nobody flunked, nobody aced.

Your scores for exam 1 are now up. Look in your My Grades page in Webcourses.

Bonus points:

1. the bonus point from CPS ("Exam 1 SMA bonus") is also up - if you answered correctly;
2. for a few students, there is a bonus point ("Bonus question MT1") for having suggested a question for this exam that we adjudged to be good enough to use.

Bonus points are also in My Grades' "BONUS POINTS AREA" right below the exam scores.

Exam1's highest score was 49/50 and lowest was 26/50, so nobody aced it, yet nobody flunked it either! This tells me the exam was challenging yet fair.

There are a few students who were absent or who have a score pending for some other reason. For those students, the My Grades page reads either "pending" or "no score reported." We will try to sort that out when I get back to campus next Tuesday.

Blurb on Ex. 11, p. 73 in Lecture Files

If you go into Webcourses and check the Lecture Files, then you will see a little blurb page of Exercise 11, p. 73, the baseball exercise we worked out in lecture yesterday. I added some extra detail and a nice color diagram with velocity vectors accurately drawn. Have a look and see if it makes sense to you.

HW 6 is ready to roll.

Go get after the eight exercises in HW 6. It is now available inside Webcourses.

Prepare for exam 1. Office hours tomorrow morning 8:00-9:45 AM and 2:45-4:15 PM, in Starbucks, UCF bookstore.

Homework 5 available, plus L6 scores and Gaby Guide UP

Your homework assignment for Tuesday is now UP. HW 5 requires a bit of reading in chapter 3.

Also, I posted the lecture 6 CPS scores, designated L6. Also, the Gaby Guide PDF is available in the Napoleon Dynamite section.

Four questions

There is a page in The Lecture Files with the four questions I asked in lecture on Tuesday, Jan. 22.

HW 4 is ready.

Our next homework assignment is now ready. HW 4 also has a brain burner that requires some nifty moves with the drop distance formula.

The Gaby Guide

Look for the new file area on the home page, with the Napoleon Dynamite icon. This is where the Gaby Guides will be after each lecture.

The Gaby Guide is just the streamlined "study guide" that I get CPS to produce in PDF for Gaby's work. It shows each question, each of Gaby's answers, and the correct answer. Works pretty well. It is a good study guide when reviewing CPS questions in case you did not jot down each question in lecture. Also, they are quite nice when preparing for a midterm exam!

CPS scores up for lecture 5 (L5)

Look in your My Grades page. The scores for today's CPS session are now UP inside Webcourses. Every lecture we will have two sets of data like this, e.g.,

L5 correct	7
L5 answered	8

This is how your My Grades page will look if you answered 8 questions this morning and got 7 of them correct.

We will have varying numbers of questions in CPS, usually a handful, sometimes more than that. At the end of the semester, if I have asked 120 CPS questions and you have answered 102 of them, that is 85% answered. Therefore you will get all 20 points in the CPS part of your semester grade, as explained in the syllabus. If, however, you only answered 81 out of 120, that would be 67.5% answered, and you would get proportionally fewer points on your semester grade; in this case, the number of points, n, is 15.88, which I would round up to 16 points for simplicity.
The "number correct" score for each session, starting with L5, will tally up this way for you at the end of the semester.

HW 3 is now ready to go.

I just finished setting up HW 3, which goes over some of the concepts in our computation of the acceleration of skateboarder Alan in Thursday's lecture. It also refers to the data set, which I typed up and posted - so that you can double check your own lecture notes.

Office hours now until 4:15 PM

I am now at Starbuck's in the UCF Bookstore (center campus) for office hours. I will be here until 4:15 PM, as noted on our calendar. I have an easy chair.

HW 2 is ready to go

OK, now you can try out a few simple calculations in HW 2. It will be due at 10:30 AM on Thursday, as usual. It is related to today's lecture, in which we computed Alan's and Nikki's average speed rolling down the aisle.

Don't forget to bring your skateboard again on Thursday.

HW 1 is now available; due Tuesday

I just finished activating your first homework in Webcourses, HW 1. Click on the yellow pickup truck icon, then on the assignment itself.

This assignment is designed as

1. a preview that
2. expects you to study your notes and the textbook.

Yes, offensive as that may sound, it is now time to STUDY! :)

De-activate popup blockers for CPS registration

Some of you have mentioned some difficulty clicking all the way through on the CPS registration method. Make sure to turn off popup blocking before trying it again. Apparently Windows users also must be aware of this.

Matter of fact, you should ALWAYS demobilize popup blocking when working in Webcourses. Or, if you have fancy popup blocking, allow popups from webcourses.ucf.edu.

Problem solving manual, CB&S

I was at CB&S on Tuesday afternoon, and they had a pile of the optional problem solving manuals for sale, unlike the bookstore in the center of campus.

In Thursday's class, we will have some practice CPS activity, so bring your clickers!!

Thirteen × 3 then CPS is free

UCF Students: If you register your CPS in three different classes, not necessarily the same semester, then any other classes you register for free. Or you can buy the "lifetime" subscription immediately for $35.

CPS Clickers

Buy your blue and white 2nd-Generation CPS clicker at the UCF Computer Store, inside the Student Union. Or use your blue and white 2nd-Generation CPS clicker from a previous semester. Or borrow a blue and white 2nd-Generation CPS clicker from a friend.

SPRING SEMESTER 2008 BEGINS HERE

SPRING SEMESTER 2008 BEGINS HERE.

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