SMA points are on the books.

Final exam SMA points, including partial credit, are now UP for both sections. If you got an odd number of "..Final exam SMA" points, you earned at least 1 partial credit point. Even the " slackers" are finished.

SMA points

I will be working on the SMA files from yesterday. Some specs:

1. Each SMA item is worth 2 points.
2. I will comb through each sections data, for each item, to see if any answers merit partial credit if incorrect.
3. So partial credit might earn you one point, instead of zero on any of the ten SMA questions.
4. This will optimize your SMA pointage in a just manner, but...
5. it will take some time to do this.

"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.

Tuesday's SMA pointage

I will get the SMA pointage from Tuesday's exam up in Webcourses a bit later today.

About ..Exam 1 scantron and ..Exam 1 SMA in the grade book

When I set up the grade book before the semester starts, I always set the midterm scantron rows to be 59 points and the SMA rows to be 1 point. But I never know the exact splits until I actually write the exam.

Thursday's exam worked out to be 50 and 10.

So I just went in and modified those two rows of the grade book to read "out of 50" and "out of 10." But the other two midterms will be at 59 and 1 until the day they are taken. So Exam 2 might eventually be 46 and 14, for instance, but for now, I just leave it as 59 and 1.

SMA points are UP for Exam 1, Thursday section.

For those of you who took Exam 1 today, your SMA points are now UP in Webcourses. Look at the "..Exam 1 SMA" row of the My Grades page.

For the Tuesday section 0M01, your "..Exam 1 SMA" slot has a zero for now. But by Tuesday afternoon, it will be filled in with the points you earn on Tuesday morning.

Afternoon section, good work.

Final exam for the after lunch bunch section 0002 is now sitting in the computer center, waiting to be scanned.

Your SMA points are up. Anything above 2 points in the "..Final exam SMA" row is bonus.

SO... section 0002, you are done for the semester. Good work.

Monday: students in the morning section 0001 are up to bat, for a tough final exam. Be ready!

Chuck Norris Mega-Combo SMA review -- bring your CPS!

Monday in lecture, we will have a ginormulous SMA review handout, the traditional Chuck Norris Mega-Combo Review. I am preparing diagrams for it this morning, and it is going to be excellent.

Be ready for action, with CPS and fully charged fresh batteries, because this is the bonus points opportunity many of you need.

Exam 4 SMA scores are UP.

What a stressful Wednesday.

But all work is now finished.

1. Your scantrons are at test scoring. Good.
2. Your SMA points from today's test are UP in Webcourses. Good.
3. Time to relax now, and get some ZZZZZZZ. Good.

See you all for lecture on Friday, in which we will look right into the quantum world, starting with chapter 23.

Images: discrete spectrum of hydrogen; Claude Elwood Shannon

SMA review answers

The answer sheet from yesterday's SMA review is now UP in Webcourses. Look in the William Hung folder.

Chuck Norris SMA key

The answer key to the in-class Chuck Norris mega-combo SMA review is up in Webcourses. Check the CPS study guides folder. It is the same PDF for both sections.

SMA points are UP, sec. 0004

Sec. 0004 students, your SMA points are now UP. They are in the "..Exam 4 SMA" row of your My Grades page. You can now add them up mentally, "..Exam 4 SMA" + "..Exam 4 scantron" for your Exam 4 total. As soon as I get the scores for sec. 0003 in, I will active the main "Exam 4" row to add the two subscores as usual.

I also installed some new rows way below there, to post the actual data you sent on each of the three SMA questions. This way you can double check your error against the solution in the CPS folder. Another row indicates whether you got some partial credit on #1. Those partial credit points are already included in the "..Exam 4 SMA" row, so do not ask about adding them in again.

Interesting codes, section 0004

I just spent 30 minutes reading and analyzing your codes for SMA question #1. Very interesting. I decided to make it a 2 point question, and I am giving partial credit for some of the unconventional codes.

Effectively, this means SMA #1 is 1 regular point and one bonus point.

As a result dozen students nabbed 4 points on SMA, 2 regular and 2 bonus. I josh you guys about brain burners, but when I can see what you are thinking and award extra points, it gives me great joy.

The SMA key is UP

Your SMA study guide is now UP in Webcourses. Check the CPS study guides folder.

Today's SMA data are up

Section 0004, I just uploaded your SMA scores from today's review. Also, I included your actual answers for #9 and #10, for future reference and so that you can double check.

I warded two points on #10 if you got it correct, and 1 point if you got the scientific notation messed up. So the "L36-C25 SMA answered" is 10, but the "L36-C25 SMA correct" is 11. For those of you shooting for the 75% correct CPS bonus (cf. syllabus), that extra point will help a teeny bit. :)

Section 0003, you have zeroes in your "L36-C25 SMA answered" and "L36-C25 SMA correct" rows until tomorrow!

SMA tomorrow

Section 0004, we will have an SMA review set in lecture tomorrow, last 20 minutes or so. Make sure to bring your CPS.

Green jello and SMA for section 0003

It took me some time to convert this morning's SMA data from section 0003's midterm exam. The conversion factor was complicated due to the ideal green jello model, which does not use e pluribus unum but is, in fact, based upon unknown atomic mass of green jello.

But now, after all that intense number crunching, the SMA points, all five of them being bonus points, are now UP in Webcourses.

When the scantron scores come in, I will post them in Webcourses, too, ASAP.

SMA points are up for MWF section 0004

Your SMA pointage from Exam 3 is now up on your My Grades page in Webcourses. Good work, you guys.

Today's SMA data is UP

Students in MWF section 0004, your SMA scores from today's lecture are up in your My Grades page now.

Also, the review guide for today's SMA is up in the CPS study guides folder.

You guys in section 0003, your data will go in tomorrow afternoon!

Exam 2 grades UP

I just uploaded the exam 2 grades, both sections. Go have a look.

NOTE:

1. Since Exam 2 was all scantron and no SMA, the "..Exam 2 scantron" row will be the same as the main "Exam 2" row.
2. Exam 3 and 4 plus the final exam will have SMA, so we will be back to normal.
3. I will be looking at exam 1 and 2 grades this weekend, with an eye toward SSG activity. More on Monday.