CPS study guides

In yesterday's and today's lecture, concerning the distance triangle, there were 8 CPS questions. To help you review them, I always post the PDF of the CPS study guide for each session. It is based on S.I. leader Gloria's CPS participation -- usually 100% correct. The images and diagrams are in the PDF, plus the correct answer is indicated.

These are very handy study tools for midterm exam preparation.

Look for the snow-capped mountain in the course home page in Webcourses.

HW 1 and HW 2 are viewable again.

For study purposes, your homeworks from the past week, HW 1 and HW 2, are now viewable by everybody. They are each a nice mini-guide for test prep.

Friday podcast is UP.

You can go to iTunes U now and listen to the podcast of Friday's lecture, from the afternoon section. You guys in the morning section, it will be roughly equivalent to our morning lecture, so it will be good to use for study.

1. Log in to the myUCF portal.
2. Select the Online Course Tools tab.
3. Somewhere near the bottom of the Online Course Tools page is the link to Open UCF on iTunes U. Click that.
4. Your bowser opens a new window and then the iTunes application will open.
5. The iTunes application will "access" the iTunes Store but it will actually land at iTunes U.
6. Navigate to College of Sciences, then the blue Physical Science icon. Click in and listen!

I also uploaded the syllabus for each section and Friday's doc cam sketches, as an alternate method for getting those PDFs.

Note:
The podcasts are visual podcasts. They are designed to be viewed. Apple calls this type of podcast "enhanced audio." This means that the diagrams, notes and sketching are part of the podcast's artwork track, like a series of album covers. Our visual data in lecture is crucial. Most podcasts and music files usually have one album cover and that's it. But we have all the main diagrams etc. Good.

How to study for exam 1

Here are a few study tips as you prepare for exam 1.

1. Review lecture notes. What I talk about in lecture is the important stuff.


2. Scout out the parts of chapters 2-5 that correlate to what I cover in lecture. These will reinforce the important stuff I cover in lecture.


3. Check each of the Linsky files. They are the PDFs of each CPS session, and have Ed's performance PLUS the right answer. Since CPS occurs in lecture, you can assume that they reinforce

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4. Go through the doc cam PDFs in the "Blurbs from lecture" folder in Webcourses. These are usually calculations or diagrams from lecture, so they back up the important stuff I cover.

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5. Look through your homework assignments in Webcourses, double check the concepts and calculations.

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6. Use the "Newton's Second Law of Motion" learning object, for extra practice. Your assessment score there is our HW for tonight.

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7. Contribute a question to the Discussion area "Bonus: suggest question for midterm exam 1" which will
   
   1. earn you two bonus points if it is good enough to use on the test,
   2. help you study,
   3. and if you review all the other questions, you will have a good probability of seeing the questions I use on the exam!
   
   

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8. Find a study partner and talk over your uncertainties. Putting words to your difficulty is the first step to thinking your way through.


9. Pepper our TAs Ashton and Meg with questions in the "Motion, acceleration, trajectories " discussion area.

Remember to bring your CPS device plus a UCF scantron.

New Enigma Machines

Last study tool announcement of Fall 2007

There are two new Enigma machines to study with, one by Ashotn and another by Lenni Jo.

1. Ashton's Assortment, (Chapters 11 and 12)
2. Lenni Jo's Labyrinth

GO FOR IT! These will help you prepare for the midterm 3.

Liquids mixing exercise 15, ch. 13 is UP

The exercise I worked on in lecture today, #15 from chapter 13, with mixing of two liquids at different temperatures, is now laid out in a blurb page for you. Look in the blue mailbox, deluxe lecture files, on the course home page.

Enigma machines

There is a new study tool, an Enigma machine, which can help you prepare for examination 2. It is like a sideways version of jeopardy, with questions arranged left to right. It is not for points on homework or any other part of your semester grade, but many students find the Enigma machines to be helpful prep for exams. This one is called "Energy, momentum, force mental workout."

Its web link is located on our home page in Webcourses. Look for the Enigma icon (above left). You can do the game any number of times you like, and I encourage you to study it with friends. Enjoy!