Apr 1, 2007 Apr 1, 2007
1. Sample exam 3 posted
Prenotes 12.1 posted
2. No written home work assignment this week.
No Mastering Physics assignment this week.
3. Deadline of extra credit assign. 2 extended to 04/09/07 Monday 11:00 pm.
4. Wednesday Workshop: Sample exam 3
5. No Friday workshop
Mar 29, 2007
Lecture #11.2 posted.
Reminder: third exam next Thursday. It covers chapters 27, 28, 29.
Mar 27, 2007
Lecture #11.1 posted.
Mar 24, 2007
1.Prenotes 11.1 posted.
2. Workshop activities 11.1 and 11.2 posted.
3. HW 11 posted.
4. MP assignment 11 posted.
Mar 22, 2007
1. Lecture 10.2 posted.
2. Exam 2 solution posted.
3. Solution to worksop activities posted.
Mar 20, 2007
Lecture notes 10.1 posted
Mar 19, 2007
1. Prenotes posted, download and print it, bring it to class tomorrow!
2. Workshop activities 10.1 and 10.2 posted.
3. MP assignment 10 posted.
4. Written HW 10 posted.
Mar 3, 2007
0. Second exam on Thursday: another reminder.
1. Workshop activities 8.1 posted.
2. Some students complained about the lecture time being too early.
Please be aware that I did not set the lecture time.
I hate to get up at 6 aclock in the morning as much as you do.
3. Some students complained about the attendance credits.
I want to reminder you that if you do not want to attend the lectures and at the same time do not want to lose credits, there are plenty of extra credit problems that you can solve: to get 10% grade, you only have to solve 20 extra problems correctly. If you can not solve these problems, you should probably attend the lectures anyway.
Mar 1, 2007
1. Lecture notes 7.2 posted.
2. Workshop 7.2: going over sample exam2.
Click Workshop or sample exams to download the sample exam.
3. We will have mid term 2 next Thursday.
It covers chapter 24 - 27.
4. The next lecture (Tuesday, Mar 6) will be delivered by Prof. Steve Blusk.
It is important not to miss this lecture, since the content will be covered in the
2nd mid term.
Feb 27, 2007
Lecture notes 7.1 posted.
Feb 25, 2007
1. Reading assignment 7.1 and 7.2 posted
2. Writte HW 6 posted
3. MP assignment 7 posted
4. Workshop activities 7.1 posted.
Feb 22, 2007
Lecture notes 6.2 posted
Feb 20, 2007
Lecture notes 6.1 posted
Feb 19, 2007
1. Workshop activities 6.1, 6.2 posted.
2. MP assignment 6 posted.
3. No written home work assignment this week.
Feb 15 , 2007
1. Lecture notes 5.2 posted.
Feb 13 , 2007
1. Lecture notes 5.1 posted.
2. Solution of workshop 4.1 posted.
Feb 11 , 2007:
1. Workshop activities 5.1 and 5.2 posted.
2. Written home work 4 posted
3. Mastering PHysics (MP) assignment 5 posted.
4. New version of solution to exam1 posted. (mistake corrected)
Feb 8 , 2007:
1. Exam1 solution posted. Click exam solutions to see it.
2. We will review exam1 in the workshop tomorrow
Feb 6 , 2007:
1. Lecture notes 4.1 posted.
2. section 24.1 and section 24.3 will be covered in the exam 1.
Section 24.2 will not be covered
Feb 4 , 2007:
1. Mastering physics assignment 4 ready. due Monday 02/12/07 11:00 pm.
2. Workshop activities 4.1 posted.
3. No written home work assignment this coming week. Spend your time preparing for exam 1.
4. Exam 1 covers chapter 21, 22, 23 (excluding 23.5) and chapter 24 (from 24.1 to 24.3)
Feb 2 , 2007:
We will have the first mid term exam the coming Thursday, 2/8/07.
The covered topics include chapter 21,22,23, and maybe a part of 24.
The exam time will be the usual lecture time: 8:00am - 9:20 am
You are allowed to bring one page (both sides) of cheating sheet hand-written by yourself. Extra pages will not be allowed.
The exam problems will be similar to, but not the same as, your home work problems and workshop problems. Even though I will also post a sample exam from earlier years online, it may not be that useful to you, except telling you the rough format of the problems. Identical problem will not appear.
A tip about preparing for exams:
You can find a summary of important results at the end of each chapter.
They tell you what you should understand in each chapter.
Below is the section about exams in the syllabus.
Exams:
Midterms: There will be three eighty-minute exams during lecture time. Each exam will focus on material from the three or four weeks prior to the week of the exam but may include earlier material as well. Sample problems from exams from previous semesters will be posted on the course website and will be discussed in the Wednesday workshops before each exam. One of three midterms will be dropped.
Final: there will be a two-hour final. The final exam will be comprehensive.
Exam policy:
Feb 1 , 2007:
Lecture notes 3.2 posted
Jan 30, 2007:
Lecture notes 3.1 posted.
Home work 1 solution posted
workshop solution for week 2 posted
Jan 28, 2007:
1. Written home work 2 posted.
2. Mastering Physics assignment 3 posted.
3. Workshop activities 3.1 and 3.2 posted.
4. Notice: Start from this time, mastering physics online homework will always be due each Monday 11pm.
Written home work will still be due each Friday before workshop.
5. We will conduct a class survey at the beginning of lecture this Tuesday.
Let me know your opinion about this course so that we can improve it!
6. Start to work on mastering physics assignment 2 as early as possible.
It is not a short one!
Jan 25, 2007:
1. Lecture notes 2.2 posted.
2. Reminder: written homework 1 due Friday before workshop.
Late homework will not be accepted.
Class attendance was about 134 today.
your lecture attendance and clicker questions worth 10% of your course grade.
If you miss all lectures, you will lose the whole 10% completely.
3. Tips for Mastering Physics:
a) Finish assignment 0, it teaches you how to use the software
b) Read the problem carefully before answering
c) Remember patience is virtue
d) Still having problem? call customer service 800 677 6337.
4. Solutions for first week workshop activities posted.
Don Bunk kindly made the solutions.
Jan 23, 2007:
1. Lecture notes 2.1 posted.
2. Mastering Physics assignment 2 posted, due next Wednesday, Jan 31.
It is not an easy assignment, start to work on it!
3.Reading assignment #2.2: Young&Freedman Sections 22.3, 22.4.
(Read before Tuesday's lecture)
Jan 21, 2007:
1. Reading assignment:
Reading assignment #2.1: Young&Freedman Sections 21.5, 21.7, 22.1.
(Read before Tuesday's lecture)
Reading assignment #2.2: Young&Freedman Sections 22.3, 22.4.
(Read before Thursday's lecture)
2. Written Home Work 1 posted, click homework to see it.
3. Workshop activity 2.1 posted, click worhshop to see it.
4. Reminder: Mastering Physics assignment 1 is due Wednesday. Start to work on it!
5. Reminder about workshop:
students should
a) check and print out workshop activities,
b) bring both text book and tutorials to wokshop.
c) turn in work sheet if requested by TA
Jan 17, 2007:
Dear students:
Please remember that mastering physics assignment 0 is due tomorrow.
If you have not get your access code yet, please try to get one immediately.
You will have a second chance working on assignment 0 and 1 sometime next week.
Mastering physics assignments consists 10% of the course grade.
IF you do not have a clicker yet, please get one immediately.
We will start to use it tomorrow.
Clicker questions consist another 10% of your course grade.
Jan 16, 2007:
Dear students:
I have updated the course webpage:
1. Lecture notes for the first class and reading assignment
click notes and you will see them
2. click workshop for workshop activities for tomorrow,
as well as a useful tutorial for vector algebra.
Please print them out before workshop.
3. If you do not have you text book yet, you will have a second
chance working on the mastering physics assignments (0 and 1).
Jan 16, 2007:
This is an announcement for phy222 (from Prof. Steve Blusk):
phy222 students please pick up their pre-labs from Arlene Johnston, Rm 111. A pre-lab assignment needs to be done
before their lab next week, and it will be collected before the lab starts...
Jan 14, 2007:
Dear students: Welcome to phy212!
0. Class will begin on Jan 16th.
1. course webpage: http://phy.syr.edu/~xxing/teaching/phy212/
2. Get paid to be a notes taker!
3. You will need a clicker for this course.
4. Please register yourself to Mastering Physics:
class name: PHYSICS212SPRING07
Please start to work on the first assignment:
Introduction to MasteringPhysics
It is due 12:00pm 1/18.