LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of
this course, the successful student will be able to: prove the knowledge and understanding of
the basic principles of the covered topics by applying them in solving problem
process.
COURSE OUTLINE: See
the Class Schedule.
COURSE ORGANIZATION:
Attendance: You are expected to attend the lecture,
therefore I will take the attendance at the beginning of each lecture. If you
miss three lectures in a row, or cumulate more than eight absences, you can
expect to be dropped.
Laboratory: Concurrent enrollment in a laboratory
section is required and the lab attendance is mandatory. You may miss no
more than one lab, and then only with a written physician’s note or some other
documented and serious reasons.
The lab is intended to provide “hands-on”
experience in working with the concepts presented in the lecture. A separate
lab sheet will be handed out in the first lab with more details given.
Homework: The problem sets will be
assigned on a weekly basis and will be comprised roughly of 15 problems per
set. The assignments will be available online and will be graded online. You’ll
find them at book publisher web site www.masteringphysics.com.
In order to register for our course you have to use the access kit that comes
with your textbook. If you have used the eleventh edition previous semester,
your account is still valid. If you use the old edition and don’t have an
access kit, you can buy it on line. During the registering process you’ll be
asked to submit the code for our course. It is MPIONESCUZANETTI0005. Each
assignment will be posted for about ten days, usually two days after the due
date. However, in order to get full credit you have to finish it on the due
date.
It is OK to discuss your homework among
yourselves, during the recitation or office hours, but I expect the final
version to be your own and not a copy from someone else.
Exams: There
will be a weekly quiz (excepting the weeks when an exam is scheduled), three
one-hour exams, and a comprehensive final exam. The worst score for the quizzes
will be dropped. No exam score will be dropped, but your lower exam score will
be minimized (see the grading section). No make-up exams without prior consent
from the instructor. You can request it by using the e-mail, and must make
arrangements to make-up the exam no later than a week after its official date.
The exams will be close-book, and consist of about five problems, mainly at the
level II in the text.
Grading
policies: You will be graded based on the union of the
information provided by laboratory, homework, quizzes, and exams as follows.
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Lab work 20%
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Homework 10%
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Quizzes (one dropped) 10%
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One-hour exams 30%
(the worst one 5%, the best one 15%)
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Final Exam (comprehensive) 30%
The
letter grades will be assigned on the traditional percentages:
A:
85 – 100%; B: 75 – 84%;
C: 60 –74%: D: 50 – 59%
CURRENT
TEXT: Young & Freedman, University Physics,
eleventh edition,
Adison Wesley Longman
Physics 206 Fall 2004 Class Schedule
