Monday's SMA session is UP

You can now view the correct answers to the bonus SMA session in class on Monday. Look in the Linsky files!

Also, the bonus CPS points are UP.

No office hours

Sorry.

Due to a bit of transportational difficulties, I will not be having office hours today.

Webcourses off the air; mega-homework tomorrow

Apparently, the Webcourses server is off the air. This happens every semester about this time. All we can do is wait.

I will set up the mega-review HW tomorrow morning. It is almost ready.

S.I. special review session, Tuesday

Ed's special S.I. review session is on Tuesday, April 28th in the Student Union:

1. 6:00 - 8:00 PM
2. Key West Room, section C/D

Be ready for extraordinary games, too. :)

Homework 21 is ready

Your last regular homework assignment for the semester is now up, HW 21. It is due on Monday afternoon, as usual.

Be prepared for mental defibrillation of maximum extent: the right hand rule is in this homework!!

We will also have a maga-review bonus HW on Monday evening, as a kick start to your final exam prep.

SSG signups ready to go

SSG signups for final exam prep next week are now UP. You can look over the schedule and find a group that fits your exam week schedule. Do not delay!!!

CPS and HW up to date

Your CPS baseline subtotal is now 105 answers, and the HW baseline is now 197. Monday's HUGE CPS session is now UP in Webcourses.

Homework 20 is ready

You can now work on homework #20 in Webcourses. Make sure to kep your textbook handy, open to chapter 22, as you work through this assignment!

Subtotals

Your subtotals for homework and CPS are now up in Webcourses.

1. CPS answered subtotal: Will convert to 24 points on semester grade.
2. CPS correct subtotal: Will earn you 4 bonus points if greater than 75%.
3. HW subtotal: Converts to 16 points on your semester grade.

Double check your syllabus for details.

We will be reviewing grades today in lecture.

Also: Your exam 3 total grade is now up.

Homework for bonus points

For everyone who gets lonely without some nice nutritious homework, I set up a special bonus homework: Homework 19. It has a circuit brain burner that is so hard you might even fry your roommate's brain cells.

So be careful.

But give it a shot if you fel bold, and earn some bonus points!!!

Exam 3 breakdown sheets

For those of you who wisely have kept your exam printouts for final exam study purposes, you now have the third set of breakdown sheets in Webcourses. Look for the goofy eyeballs icon.

These break downs will help you get ready for the final exam.

Homework 18 ready to go.

Beware.

Homework 18 has some brain burners, as you shall find out as soon as you dive into Webcourses and tangle with it.

Note: I made up a mini-blurb sheet to recap yesterday's electrical concepts and push you ahead a little bit into the readings in chapter 21.

Tsk tsk tsk

Hardly anybody is creating questions for exam 3, in Discussions. Nice, juicy bonus points without a home. So sad.

Teeny bit of chapter 11 on this exam.

Most of this exam will be on chapters 12, 13 and 20, but we also covered a teeny bit of chapter 11 after exam 2: how to handle the ideal gas law. So that will be on the exam tomorrow.

We covered ideal gas law on March 20 (Friday after exam 2) and March 23.

P.S. Be ready for a few sweeeeeeet brain-burners. Excellent.

Today's SMA study guide is UP.

I uploaded your SMA scores from today's mini-review. Unfortunately, I could not get the data you transmitted on the matching questions. I only have the last ten questions worth of data, so it is a 10 pointer.

The Linsky file for today's mini-review is also up, and it has the correct answers for items 1-8, the matching questions.

You will find all this in Webcourses.

Bring CPS today and Wednesday

We will be doing SMA

1. in lecture today, a large SMA review sheet, and
2. SMA problems on Wednesday's exam!

Make sure to get good new batteries if you haven't already done so!

SSG ready

You can now sign up for a special study group to prepare for next week's Midterm Exam 3. Log into Webcourses and GO FOR IT.

No lecture this Friday afternoon

We will not have PSC1121 lecture this Friday afternoon -- although your other classes might have lecture meetings as normal.

I will see you all on Monday for Van de Graaff generator demonstration. Enjoy the weekend!

Ashlea from Spring 2008!

Be ready for SSG signups

Our TA Meg will have SSG signups ready in the next 24 hours, so be ready to spring.

Bonus point questions for exam 3

You can now start creating questions for exam 3, a source of bonus points. Look in Discussions for this posting area. Directions are there.

Asbestos thinking cap today: brain-burner in HW 17

Homework 17 is now ready:

1. a few conceptual questions on the electrostatic field, and
2. some thermal energy practice, including one lovely brain-burner.

Since it has such a nice brain-burner, I have set this assignment to give you 5 attempts!

As always, it is due by class time on Wednesday!

Homework 16 ready to go!

Your homework for Monday is now ready.

GO GO GO!

CPS data are UP; HW 15 ready for Friday

Your CPS data and the Linsky files from today and Monday are now up in Webcourses.

Make sure to hit homework #15 before lecture on Friday. It is due at 1:30 PM, as usual, on Friday.