March

Ø 1st	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Ø 8th	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Ø 15th	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Ø 22nd	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Ø 29th	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday

Schedule

Manuals

Assignments

Quiz Solutions

Calendar

An outline of topics to be addressed each day is presented below. This list is not complete; additional items are covered for most classes. If students are absent, they should consult these pages and check with the instructor concerning material missed.

Monday

n There will be a Review Exercise on chapters 19 and 20 Thursday of this week - multiple choice only

n Amanda takes Review Exercise 3-3 8th period today - solution will then be posted and papers graded

n Exercises

Ø 3-6

ð Solution posted

ð Will be graded and returned next class, along with the Review Exercise 3-3

Ø 3-7 due Feb 26: 6 students have not submitted

Ø 3-8: Due 3-3 (Wednesday)

n Demo - after the breadboard PC board, soldering, and components: capacitors (disc and electrolytic), resistors, transistors, potentiometer, IC, speaker, LED

n Wednesday is a double period day - will use to work some problems and perhaps and perhaps an abbreviated lab (I conduct, you explain)

n Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday's Law

Tuesday

n Review Exercise 3-3 solution

n Greek letters

n Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday's Law - 2 videos

Wednesday

n Double Period Day

n Review Exercise 3-3 solution - graded and returned

Ø There were 25 multiple-choice questions

Ø Best performance was Ryan H with only 8 missed

Ø I noted that Ryan was also the only one left working at the end of the class - some left half way through the class. For his effort I gave Ryan an additional 5 points

Ø Worst performance was by a student who missed 18 (72%) - and left very early

Ø If weighted on a 100 point scale, they the questions would be worth 4 points each. The 72% miss student above would have received a 28

Ø I weighted them 2 points each (start with 50 points) with the 5 extra credit questions worth 1 pont each.

Ø Grades ranged from 64 to 91

n Possible regrade of exercise 3-3 - optional assignment

ð You can get a percentage of the points lost on a problem by submitting, by end of class on Friday (no extensions for any reason), the following - TYPED - exactly as follows - for each problem.

Each problem submitted for a possible regrade should have those items in bold below listed followed by the appropriate entry

If not in this exact format, then your submission will not be graded - do not submit answers to extra-credit questions - they are not included in this regrade option

Ø Problem Number with section. For example, 1a(1) for the first problem in section 1a

Ø Exact statement of the problem I gave (do not include the posssible answers)

Ø Exact statement of the correct response - the one I gave in the solutions

Ø Rationale-specific reason the response is correct

ð Scale for maximum points returned

Ø Original grade: above 80: 40% returned

Ø Original grade: below 80: 30% returned

n Exercise 3-9: Multiple-Choice review problems from chapters 2 - 14. Due next Monday (next marking period)

Ø Can work as team but everyone must submit the assignment.

Ø Due Friday - next marking period

n Two additions to the pioneers gallery

n During this double period day

Ø Work on missing exercises or the latest exercise or missing assignments or

Ø Study for the review exercise next class

n Details concerning the exit exam for seniors will be provided after the break

n Individuals observed not doing one of the above will have exercise 3-9 due next class

Thursday

n End Marking Period 3

n Possible regrade of exercise 3-3 - optional assignment

ð You can get a percentage of the points lost on a problem by submitting, by end of class on Friday (no extensions for any reason), the following - TYPED - exactly as follows - for each problem.

Each problem submitted for a possible regrade should have those items in bold below listed followed by the appropriate entry

If not in this exact format, then your submission will not be graded - do not submit answers to extra-credit questions - they are not included in this regrade option

Ø Problem Number with section. For example, 1a(1) for the first problem in section 1a

Ø Exact statement of the problem I gave (do not include the posssible answers)

Ø Exact statement of the correct response - the one I gave in the solutions

Ø Rationale-specific reason the response is correct

ð The Review Exercise must be returned along with the above

ð Scale for maximum points returned

Ø Original grade: above 80: 40% returned

Ø Original grade: below 80: 30% returned

n Review Exercise 3-4 on chapters 19 and 20 - multiple choice only

Friday

Review Exercise 3-3 possible regrade

ð I have received Review Exercise 3-3 corrections-along with the exercise - from the following: James, Spencer, Ryan, Emma, Nick

ð Today is last day

n Ben: missing 2 assignments: 3-7 and 3-8 from last marking period

n Review Exercise 3-4

ð Solution

ð Grading

Ø 22 questions, weighted 1.5 points each

Ø 5 extra credit, weighted 1 point each

Ø Initial grades ranged from 80 to 97, 2 points added ðGrades ranged from 82 to 99

n Exercise 3-6 graded and returned

ð Some misunderstood problem 14 - no deduction if tried

ð 4 points each, grades ranged from 84 to 100

n Exercise 3-7 solution solution will be posted this afternoon, graded and returned next class: last day for student (1) that has not submitted this assignment

n Exercise 3-8 solution solution will be posted this afternoon, graded and returned next class: last day for student (1) that has not submitted this assignment

n Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday's Law

ð Review of topics covered

ð Examples

ð Short assignment

n Schedule for remainder of month: 3 of the 5 chapters in the next section: Waves and Optics

ð Next week: Chapter 11 - Vibrations and Waves

ð Week after spring break (short chapters)

Ø Chapter 12: Sound

Ø Chapter 22: Electromagnetic Waves

n Exercise 3-10

Monday

n Role models, patience, and wisdom

n Marking period grade is on the cover page attached to the papers - listed below - that have been graded and are returned.

Marking period grade calculated as follows: Participation: 15% Exercises and Labs: 40% Review Exercises: 45%

n Exercise 3-7

ð Solution

ð Graded and returned

ð Problems 24, 36, and 50 gave most some problems - look at solution and we will cover in the review - did not deduct if tried

ð 6 problems 4 each

ð Grrades ranged from 0 (did not submit) to 100

n Exercise 3-8

ð Solution

ð Graded and returned

ð Problems 24, 36, and 50 gave most some problems - look at solution and we will cover in the review - did not deduct if tried

ð 5 problems 4 points each

ð Grades ranged from 0 (did not submit) to 100

n Review Exercise 3-3

ð Revisions were received from the following by the end date; Bobbie, Elliot, Jeremy, Molly, Kynsey, Amanda, Katie, Ryan C., Ryan H., James, Emma, Nicholas, Spencer

ð They were all in the correct format and the corrections were close enough

ð I added 40 percent of points lost to the grades of the above students

n Chapter 11 - Vibrations and Waves: Sections 1 through 4 today, rest next class - we complete this chapter before the break

n Exercise 4-1 (previously labeled 3-9) due today. Eleven students have already submitted

n Exercise 4-2 (previously labeled 3-10) due Wednesday

Tuesday

n No Class

Wednesday

n Exercise 4-1 (previously labeled 3-9): everyone turned it in

n Exercise 4-2 (previously labeled 3-10) due today

n Chapter 11 - Vibrations and Waves: sections 5 (Damped Harmonic Motion) and 6 (Forced Vibrations-Resonance)

n Exercise 4-3: Due 2nd class day after the break