Final exam today, 1 PM

Final Exam today
1:00 PM

1. Sec. 0M01 in MAP260
2. Sec. 0M02 in CSB101

Gloria, Amanda and Rylee, report in.

Rylee, Amanda and Gloria, please contact me asap in regular email. Semi-emergency to get squared away.

120 points, 110 questions

The final exam, which I just finished writing, has this structure:

1. 13 matching (on scantron portion)
2. 12 true/false (on scantron portion)
3. 75 multiple choice (on scantron portion)
4. 10 calculation in SMA, each worth 2 points.

That makes it 100 scantron one-pointers, 10 SMA two-pointers, 120 points overall.

Make sure that you have Duracells or Energizers in your CPS device!!

Engineering majors OWNAGE

I think these Chuck Norris-like action photos, taken clandestinely in Harris Engineering Center, under the unsuspecting visage of hundreds of engineering majors proves once and for all that physics is permanently superior to anything that hapless engineering goombahs can muster.

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The Chuck Norris Team dominates; engineering majors PWN'd. Case closed.

A few bonus points

I am posting up a few more bonus points and activating the bonus points subtotal in your My Gradebook page of Webcourses. Not all bonus points are in yet, though, so it might change from day to day as we get through the week.

Special TA office hours later this week

Amanda and Rylee have the following office hours this week:

Rylee
Wednesday	noon - 1:30 PM	Starbucks, UCF bookstore, Washington Ctr.
Friday	2:00 - 5:00 PM	Room PS158

Amanda
Thursday	12:00 - 2:30 PM	Room PS158
Friday	9:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Room PS158

Summary analytic test in Webcourses

In another Webcourses area, "GEP PSC1121 11Spring", there is a summary analytical test you should all take this week, before hitting the final exam. It is not part of your semester grade but part of the university's assessment plan for its GEP program. It takes about 15 minutes or less.

CPS correct bonus

As per the syllabus,

There is a 4 point performance bonus for students who answer 75% of all CPS questions correctly.

a number of you have earned the CPS correct bonus. Handy.

Look for it on the My Grades page in Webcourses.

One more SSG session is available.

One more SSG session is available now, a Wednesday session, but you had better jump FAST! It is the last of the SSGs to activate, and there will be no more.

SSG sign ups will open at 6 PM tonight.

The SSG signup sheet will become available at 6 PM tonight (Saturday). Follow the blue SSG icon from the home page in Webcourses.

1. Scan SSG groups to see which fits your schedule.
2. Click on one that still has room, if it fits your schedule.

Error on Exam 1 and Exam 3

There were some scantron questions on Exam 1 and on Exam 3 that we bubbled incorrectly in the answer keys. I will be setting some extra pointage for everyone on those exams when I get up to campus next week. So do not stress out about it.

Chuck Norris bonus points

I will be fixing up Chuck Norris bonus points from

1. SMA on Tuesday
2. SMA on Thursday
3. Chuck Norris Super Mega-Combo Homework

this week and next. Do not panic or fret if the bonus points are not up yet, or if they appear and then disappear a few times. But by the end of next week, the bonus points situation should stabilize -- if not sooner!

Gloria's S.I. review next week

Regular S.I. sessions end on Monday next week, the last day of classes for spring semester.

But Gloria will run a special set of S.I. review sessions to get you all up to speed for the final exam:

Final Exam Review 1

Thursday, April 28, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Pegasus Ballroom, Student Union

covering material from Exam 1 and Exam 2

Final Exam Review 2

Friday, April 29, 6:00 - 7:30 PM

Pegasus Ballroom, Student Union

covering material from Exam 3 and after

NOTE: No review sheets will be posted. Bring paper and pen.

You can start eyeballing the SSG groups for signups.

Right now, there are 8 out of 18 SSG sessions specified as to time and place. You cannot join a group yet, but you can start looking over the schedule and see if any of them fit your exam week schedule.

When more SSG leaders report in with their meeting info, we will be posting it ASAP.

Likely signup start = maybe Saturday lunch time or so, EDT.

Rylee special office hours, Thursday

Special Thursday TA office hours for Rylee:

Thursday, April 21

6:00 - 7:30 PM

Starbucks in the UCF bookstore, center campus

Take the iTunes U survey.

In the homework page there is an extra survey about iTunes U. Please fill out this two-minute survey. It is not for points on your semester grade, but it will help us design the iTunes U option more skillfully in future semesters. Gracias!

Homework 17; lecture UP.

There is a J. J. Thomson question in Homework 17, which is now ready to work on in Webcourses.

Also, lecture 27T is UP in the iTunes U area.

Dr. B office hours for Rylee

Due to savage examination practices in another department, Dr. B will be taking Rylee's regular office hours tomorrow, Wednesday, from noon to 1:30 PM. Those of you who planned to be there, I will see you there at Starbucks in the UCF Bookstore, central campus.

Excellent.

Light-filled universe

The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

Chuck Norris Week

As designated by international physics super genius Dr. Roy G. Biv, next week is Chuck Norris Week. This being the case, we will have the following Chuck Norris bonus activities:

1. For Tuesday sec. 0M01, a special combo-review SMA session on CPS in the last 20 minutes or so of Tuesday's lecture;
2. for Thursday sec. 0M02, a special mega-review SMA session on CPS in the last 20 minutes or so of Thursday's lecture;
3. for both sections, a super mega-combo homework assignment, Homework X, with review concepts and calculations to prep for the final exam.

Each activity will have a BUNCH of questions, but I will boil them down to one or two bonus points for each activity. Note: each SMA set will be graded based not on how many you answer, but on how many you answer correctly.

With this special set of Chuck Norris activities, you can nab a few bonus points and make up some ground from having missed some HW assignments or CPS sessions in lecture. Nice.

Only Gloria!

Only Miss Gloria can do this.

WOW!

Here are some other links to slightly less spectacular demonstrations of the Van de Graaff generator:

1. Hair troubles
2. Lydia, Michelle and Madeleine
3. Lydia's hair demonstration

Homework 16

A few nice brain burners are now available in Homework 16, on Webcourses.

GO FOR IT!

Tuesday lecture podcast is up.

Your Tuesday lecture is now available in iTunes U. I inserted the CPS questions, too, with discussion of results.

Amanda and Rylee office hours, a reminder

As a reminder, for study purposes, here are the office hours for TAs Rylee and Amanda:

Rylee
Monday	Noon - 1:30 PM	Room PS158
Wednesday	noon - 1:30 PM	Starbucks, UCF bookstore, Washington Ctr.

Amanda
Friday	9:00 - 10:00 AM	Room PS158
Friday	11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Room PS158

For those of you seeking to crush the final exam, these office hours can be a great secret weapon.

Exam 3 scantrons are up.

Finally the guys in the test scoring center came across with our Thursday sec. 0M02 scantron scores. They are up in Webcourses.

We still have a few odds and ends to clear, like scantrons without PIDs etc.

At this point in the semester I usually start messing with the grade book rows, getting them ready for finals week. So don't be mystified if rows start to disappear for a few hours, then re-appear etc.

Trouble on the podcast channel

I am currently having trouble on the podcast channel. I think the static electricity this morning zapped my microphone. So I will have to re-record it tonight or maybe tomorrow. Look for the re-recorded podcast by supper time Wednesday.

As a result, there will be no HW tonight. Next assignment will be after Thursday lecture.

No scantron news yet!

Those of you in Thursday sec. 0M02 still worried and nervous about your scantron score for Exam 3... no news yet. Those guys in test scoring can sometimes be S L O W. :(

Handy conversion factors

Everybody (except Chuck Norris) gets worried about converting between Fahrenheit and Kelvin, meters and inches, so on and so forth. It can be a pain in the you-know-what.

Therefore, I decided to fix up a list of really handy, very scientific conversion factors for you:

Handy Conversions

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo Pi

2000 pounds of Chinese soup: Won ton

1 millionth of a mouthwash: 1 microscope

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement:
1 bananosecond

Weight an evangelist carries with God: 1 billigram

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour:
Knot-furlong

365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:
1 lite year

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone: 1 Rod Serling

Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon

1000 aches: 1 kilohurtz

Basic unit of laryngitis: 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes: A straight line
(think about it for a moment)

453.6 graham crackers: 1 pound cake

1 million microphones: 1 megaphone

1 million bicycles: 2 megacycles

2000 mockingbirds: two kilomockingbirds (work on it...)

10 cards: 1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton

1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks: 1 literhosen

1 millionth of a fish: 1 microfiche

1 trillion pins: 1 terrapin

10 rations: 1 decoration

100 rations: 1 C-ration

2 monograms: 1 diagram

8 nickels: 2 paradigms

3 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University
Hospital: 1 I.V. League

"Exam 3 SMA.19 partial credit"

Some of you earned partial credit on the numerical question in SMA, #19. I set up a row at the bottom of your My Grades page in Webcourses, and it will indicate one of three states:

0. "no" if your numeric answer was completely wrong,
1. "yes" if your numeric answer was clearly half-correct, in which case your ..Exam 3 SMA sub-score has one partial credit point in it,
2. "Answer was correct." This signifies that you got the calculation right on the mark, so your ..Exam 3 SMA sub-score contains 2 points of full credit for #19.

Both sections are now squared away with SMA scores. We are just waiting for today's Sec. 0M02 scantrons scores.

Exam 3 data is up for Tuesday sec. 0M01.

Those of you in Tuesday's section 0M01, you can now look up your Exam 3 grade in Webcourses. As always, it is the sum of the scantron and SMA subscores. You can now know which of the three midterm exam scores will be dropped, and which two will be retained, as part of your semester grade. YAY

Those of you in Sec. 0M02, you will have to wait a few days more. For now, your Exam 3 data lines will be zeroes. Stay alert.

Exam 3 today

Section 0M01 has Exam 3 today. Bring scantron and CPS device and be ready for action.