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scheduled laboratory period. If you expect to miss the lab period you should contact yourinstructor as early as possible.Recitations: Once a week you will solve 1-2 problems working in a group. This is intended to bea practice for the group portion of the upcoming quiz but will also help the individual portion. Itis important that you use your time wisely especially if you are offered more than one problem.The best practice is to attempt setting up both problems since this is the part where collaborativeeffort is most effective. Once this is done, it is in your best interest to do algebra on you ownwhich will help you with your individual part of the upcoming quiz. If you run out of time, makesure that you finish calculations and understand every step of the problem before the upcomingquiz. While solutions will be posted, it is in your best interest not to look at the solutions untilyou finish the problems.Quizzes: Four individual quizzes will be given on the dates stated at the beginning of thissyllabus. These quizzes will normally consist of 2 problems (25% each) and five multiple choicequestions (5% each) and will count for 75% of the quiz score. The remaining 25% of the scorewill come from a problem solved collaboratively by your group (group quiz) in the discussionsession (all group members get the same score). Note 10 minute rule: – if you arrive for thegroup quiz more than 10 minutes late you cannot join your group and will have to do theproblem by yourself. Failure to participate in one discussion session during the preceding weekswill result in 50% of the grade of the following group quiz. Failure to participate in twodiscussions will result in a zero for the grade of the following group quiz. The TA will assign thegroups and new groups will generally be assigned after each quiz. Quiz solutions will be postedon the class website.Homework: It is absolutely essential that you practice solving problems as often as you canby working out those at the end of the textbook chapter. It will do you little good to simply lookat the solutions. The most difficult part is setting up the problems so you need to attempt yourown solution before looking for help. The more problems you solve the better you will doon the exams. As the absolute minimum you should solve the problems listed below. Onsome occasions, you will be assigned extra problems. Some problems in the exams will beadapted from the homework problems, recitation problems, lecture examples, and samplequizzes (to be posted about one week before each quiz). While solutions for chapter problemsprovided by the publisher will be posted on the class website, you are expected to provide yourown solutions to the homework problems. In order to be able to effectively communicate,analyze and understand your result you should work the problem algebraically until the finalexpression is obtained and only then plug in the numbers. This will allow you to understand howyour result depends on the given parameters and to check that you have correct dimensionality.You will lose significant portion of your score if you do not follow this rule. Note, that postedsolutions often do not have the final result in the algebraic form and therefore can be used as aguide only. Some problems might not have any numerical values given. The homework shouldbe turned at the beginning of the discussion on the due dates. No late homework will beaccepted. A few problems from each set will be picked up at random and graded.4
Ch Homework problems Due date Ch Homework problems Due date1 28, 43, 52, 60, 73, 84 Sep 21 7 11, 26, 36, 48, 59, 64 Nov 22 5, 9, 19, 33, 49, 62, 76 Sep 21 8 7, 18, 32, 40, 52, 66 Nov 23 2, 24, 27, 31, 44, 51, 71 Sep 21 9 8, 22, 28, 36, 46, 55, 58 Nov 304 6, 17, 31, 37, 55, 64 Oct 12 10 11, 18, 23, 33, 37, 55 Nov 305 8, 9, 18 (Fig. 5-37), 34, 61, 87 Oct 12 11 8, 21, 26, 28, 33, 35 Dec 146 15, 19, 37, 45, 71, 90 Nov 2 13 12, 23, 35, 45, 54, 63, 68, 82 Dec 14Final grades: The course grade will be determined from the various components of the course inthe following way:(a) In-class questions (ICQ) will count for 5%(b) The homework will count for 7.5%(c) The laboratory will count for 17.5%(d) The better of two options for the remaining 70%:Option 1: Four quizzes count 10% each and the final exam counts 30%.Option 2: Three best quizzes count 10% each and the final exam counts 40%.A: a total score of 83%–100%; B: 68%–82%; C: 52%–67%; D: 43%–51%; F: less than43% or a laboratory grade of less than 60%The dividing lines will not be adjusted upwards, but may be adjusted a point or two downwards.Note for example that B includes B+, B, B-. I will not specify the ± dividing lines in advance.The quiz and final scores will not be curved or normalized to averages, but can be normalized toa few highest scores.Course evaluations: University expects each student to complete course evaluation at the end ofthe semester. As an extra incentive for doing so, I might add up to 3 points to the total grade ofthose who complete course evaluation.Tentative ScheduleWeek Topic Chapter Laboratory1 Units and Dimensions, Scalars and Vectors 1,2 FCI2 Kinematics of motion in 1D and 2D 2,3 Lab I3 Kinematics of motion in 2D (quiz 1) 3 Lab I4 Dynamics of motion, forces, Newton’s laws 4,5 Lab II5 Dynamics of motion, forces, Newton’s laws 4,5 Lab II6 Dynamics of motion, forces, Newton’s laws (quiz 2) 4,5 Lab III7 Energy and Work, Conservation of energy 6,7 Lab III8 Conservation of energy, linear momentum 7,8 Lab IV9 Conservation of linear momentum (quiz 3) 8 Lab IV10 Kinematics of rotational motion, rotational inertia 9,10 Lab V11 Dynamics of rotational motion, angular momentum 9,10 Lab VI12 Conservation of angular momentum, statics 9,10,11 Lab VII5
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