Today's lecture is now UP.

I podcasted the Sept. 10 lecture, just now. Look at the lectures page in the Uvision website.

CPS points and study guides are UP.

I just inserted the CPS scores from today's session, PSC4, and the scores from Friday's sessiom, PSC3. For each session, there is a figure for how many questions you answered, and how many you got correct. At the end of the semester, those two sets of figures will determine your CPS regular points and the CPS bonus points. (See syllabus.)

Also, in the "CPS Hideout" you will find study guides from Friday's and today's sessions, in PDF. You might benefit from using them to study a bit.

Friday's lecture is UP on uvision.

The visual podcast of the Friday lecture is now available at Uvision, http://web.mac.com/uvision.

The visual podcasts of lectures actually make up a different podcast series, so you will want to subscribe to it individually in iTunes, in addition to your subscription to the "uvision podcasts" that we have been using since the first day of classes. So you will actually have two separate iTunes subscriptions now.

I will try to get as many lectures up as possible, time permitting. I hope to get Monday's lecture up on Monday afternoon.

Homework 5 and a homework redemption assignment

Homework 5 is now available in Webcourses. Two of the questions are about some concepts in chapter 4 that you all are ready to grapple with, so do some skimming ahead in chapter 4.

ALSO: There is a mega combo-basket redemption assignment that you can use to rescue your points from the nastiness that occured with assignments HW1 and HW2. If you already have all the HW1 and HW2 points in your My Grades page, you can bypass the combo-basket redemption assignment.

Uvision, new podcasts

There are four new visual podcasts at Uvision. Three of them are about forces, chapter 3 and chapter 4 concepts.

Homework 4 is UP

There is a new homework assignment up and ready for you. Sorry, it is a bit late. You can have til dinner time, Friday, to complete it. Look in the yellow pickup truck on our Webcourses homepage.

One of the questions is a brain-burner.

Homework 3 is now UP.

Homework 3 is now up for both sections in Webcourses, due Wednesday before lecture. Click the yellow pickup truck icon, and you will see the homework. It is related to our discussion of average speed and time intervals in lecture on Friday.

Office hours for the semester

OK, my office hours for the semester will be Tuesdays, 8:00-11:30 AM, in Starbuck's cafe in the UCF Bookstore. I will usually be at a table near a wall outlet for my Powerbook. I like Starbuck's because it's more comfortable, it's fun to meet there, and it's a fairly convenient location; my actual office in MAP is pathetic.

The normal procedure in office hours is that

1. I have no agenda, but
2. you have the agenda.

So drop in if you can squeeze it into your schedule, and bring questions or ideas that you want to discuss. We can get ready for lecture, double-check homework or talk about pretty much any subject except the parking situation on campus (don't get me started). ;)

Clickers today

Bring your CPS clickers to class today. We will have some CPS questions for those who have registered up from within Webcourses. One bonus point per day for everyone who can register before Sept. 7! That day, Friday, Sept. 7, will be the due date for getting registered for CPS activity.

Webcourses is cleared for re-launch.

Everybody can now go back in to Webcourses. The two sections now are in separate areas, PSC1121 - 07Fall_0001 and PSC1121 - 07Fall_0002.

You can now register your CPS response units directly from inside Webcourses, and I can see that several of you have already done so. Good. We will do our first CPS sessions on Friday. One bonus point for whoever gets registered up by next Friday, Sept. 7. On Friday, Sept. 7, we will have the first official CPS session in lecture.

By the by, it looks like the first two HW assignments evaporated when the Webcourses admin split the sections apart. Therefore, we will do them again, with a new due date, and since you should now be experts on these two assignmenst, grades should be perfect!!! :)

We will have a new HW assignment after Friday's lecture!