Homework 11 on angular momentum concepts

If you study through chapter 8 as you work on homework 11, then you ought to be able to SHOW ME THE
MONEY.

As always, it is due at 1:30 PM, Friday afternoon!

Homework about Bob

Homework 10 is ready for you to tackle, in Webcourses.

Since I am a little late -- i.e., it's supper time! -- I will give you some extra time to finish HW 10. Instead of being due tomorrow at 1:30 PM, I will make it due at 11:30 PM Wednesday night. Nice.

WARNING: Beware of the robot problem, concerning the robot named Bob.

Blurb files

I also slapped the PDF (3 pages) of yesterday's doc cam work into Webcourses. So you can double check your lecture notes etc. Good.

Homework 9 is ready -- but have you seen CALLAHAN?

Go work on homework #9 anytime, but also keep your eyeballs ready to spot CALLAHAN. ;)

New lecture blurbs from yesterday

I just slapped two PDFs from yesterday into the Lecture blurbs folder in Webcourses:

1. Feb. 18 doc cam
2. A selection of some slides from the Feb. 18 powerpoint

Some of the equations were long, so I decided to have mercy on youse and put in the extra PDFs.

Homework is ready

You can now go work on Homework 8 in Webcourses.

Remember to use the work concept that we discussed in class, as well as the idea about the sum of momenta.

EXAM 1 ALL UP

Exam 1 is all put together now in Webcourses. Yay

Exam 1 scores almost finished

Right now, you can look at your scores for the scantron portion and for item #41. I am still messing around with the SMA data. Perhaps by tonight I will have it up. Anyway, the scantron had 38 out of 40 of the official points, so you now know most of your score.

Note: These scantron numbers and problem 41 numbers are scores, not percentages. So they are the number out of 38 possible, for the scantron, and out of 3 for problem #41.

Linsky files and last Friday's doc cam

There are new Linsky files for yesterday's lecture and the SMA questions on the midterm. Also, the doc cam file from Friday's lecture are in Lecture Blurbs.

I am still working like a maniac on exam scores.

KLAATU BARADA NIKTO

This is now the fourth day of waiting for midterm exam 1. No exam scores yet! :(

Obviously, the explanation is: Space aliens have taken over parts of our campus.

What a test!

OK, Meg dropped off the exam scantrons to the test scoring office, so now we wait.

No bugging Dr. B about exam scores until Friday afternoon, at the earliest. Failure to comply with this directive will be penalized by firing squad at dawn, followed by bread and water for forty days and forty nights!

So do not bug Dr. B about exam scores on email, telephone, AIM, course mail, discussion posting, postcard, or smoke signals!!!

Deluxe CPS information

If you look in your My Grades page, you will see two new lines that contain the numeric answer you sent in CPS session L13 and in yesterday's mini-review #14.

If you compare your number to the posted solutions (in the Linsky Files), then you can maybe unravel your error and get the problem squared away. Good.

All Linsky Files are UP.

You can now review all the questions and answers from yesterday's mini-review. Look in the Linsky Files on Webcourses. I also made up a quck blurb on Brain Burner 909, which was #14 in the mini-review.

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.

Week 5 in review is ready

You can now view the Week 5 in review podcast. Click into http://itunes.ucf.edu and navigate to the PSC1121 area.

I appended a short blurb on the exercises I like in chapters 4 and 5.

CPS mode and some exercises I like from chapters 4 and 5

Our midterm exam on Wednesday will cover topics from chapters 2-4 and as much of chapter 5 as we cover by end of class Monday.

We will also have a short in-class review session in the last 20 minutes of class, using CPS. It will be in SMA mode, "student managed assessment," which means you will have a handout of a dozen review questions to work on, and you type in your answers at your own pace. The clicker will tell you which question you are on.

We will use SMA on the midterm exams, so be sure to bring in your clicker on Wednesday, too.

Here is a list of exercises and examples I like in the textbook and the problem-solving manual (PSM).

1. Chapter 4
   
   
   
   1. PSM: 4.3.2, 4.2 and problem 16 on p. 39
   
   
   2. Textbook, p. 73: exercises 1-4, 7-12, 14-16.
   
   
   
   


2. Chapter 5
   
   
   
   1. PSM: geosynchronous orbit 5.5.1, and problem 4 on p. 45
   
   
   2. Textbook, pp. 91-92: exercises 3 and 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8, 9 and 10, and two sweeeeeeet brainburners 11 and 20.
   
   
   
   

Go for HOMEWORK 7.

Our homework assignment #7 is now ready to go, and it will require you to do a bit of reading in chapter 5.

More lovely HW

For some reason, Webcourses was off the air at lunchtime, so I had to delay your HW #6. It is ready now, though, and Napoleon Dynamite is integral to the conceptual tour de force in this homework.

Homework #5 is ready for the S.I. students... and everybody else!

Go try the next homework assignment, in Webcourses. HW 5 has a few circular motion questions plus some reinforcement of chapter 3 concepts, too.