IU Physics P221, Spring 2001, Announcements:
Find here course announcements for P221, Spring '01 (newest at top).
- 5/02/01
- You can pick up your graded final with Debbie McKinney in
SW 305.
- Course grades finished. Find distributions and letter scales on the
Solutions Page.
Find the numerical grades posted at
Oncourse.
- Best of Luck to you and for your future studies!
- 5/01/01
- Finals graded, find solutions and score distributions on the
Solutions Page.
- Numerical Grades are posted at
Oncourse.
- 4/27/01
- Last day o' class!
- Last HW (#15) due today. If you want it to study with it over
weekend, make a copy. We will post the solutions Friday afternoon.
- Ralf Lehnert (SW331) will have all uncollected HW and exams.
Find him to collect.
- Draft version of the final exam formula sheet may be found on the
Solutions Page.
- 4/25/01
- Help session, Thurs 4/26 5:30pm (note new time), SW238.
- Check your grades on ONCOURSE, notify me of any errors or
omissions this week.
- 4/20/01
- Help session, next Thurs evening 6:30pm, Room TBA.
- 4/18/01
- Instructor evaluations in class today.
- Final will be Mon. 4/30 8am in SW 007 (same room)
- 4/9/01
- 4/4/01
- Exam 3 will be Mon 4/9 in-class. It will cover Chapters 8-10.
- Help session: Thurs 4/5, 6:30-?pm in .
Bring questions.
- Good problems to practice are red-numbered problems in Chaps 8.-10.
- A draft of the formula sheet is on the
Solutions Page.
- 3/28/01
- For various reasons, I am considering moving the time for exam # 3
from Wed 4/4 to Mon 4/9. If this is not good for you, let me know via
email.
- 3/07/01
- 3/05/01
- Midterm grades post at
Oncourse.
To get this number, I took 65% of exam average, 15% of homework average (after dropping
lowest), and 20% of lab average (after dropping lowest). The max possible score was
a 100. I'll post the distribution later. The letter grade assignments are:
score > 85 - A, > 70 - B, > 54 - C, > 40 D, < 40 F. The midterm grades that I turn
in for UDIV students will follow this scale. Come see me if you want more details.
- 3/02/01
- Exams graded. Find solutions and such on
Solutions Page.
- Exam was difficult and/or a bit long. Don't get discouraged.
- Midterm grades/scores will be posted by Monday.
- Learn more about Work and Energy from
Physics Zone .
- 2/23/01
- Exam 2: Next Wed. 2/28, 8am SW007.
- Help Session: Next Mon. 2/26, 6:30pm-? SW007.
- Formula Sheet on Solutions Page.
- Good practice for Exam 2:
- Last semester P221 exam 2: Probs 2,4,5,6
- Other problems from past exams on Newton's Laws, Gravitation, SHO.
- Every other odd problem (color-coded red) from Chaps 5-7. Especially
Chap 5: P61,65,69,73,77; Chap 6: P9,13,21,49,65; Chap 7: P5,13,17,37,53,61.
The answers are in the back of the book and more verbose answers are in the
student solutions manual on reserve in library.
- These lessons from
Physics Zone - Forces .
- 2/14/01
- Typo found in Volume 1 of Reese (not in double volume).
p 199, figure 5.69: f_s should be pointing down the plane in 2nd figure.
- 2/09/01
- Exams are graded. Find grades posted at
Oncourse.
Solutions are posted in display box and on
Solutions page, along with distributions.
- Take care of any grading disputes by next Wed. 2/14.
- If you aren't happy with your performance on this exam, come to office hours.
I can help you do better on the next exam.
- Starting immediately, if you catch an error in the written material or on
the chalkboard during lecture, you'll get 3 HW pnts.
- We will not do problems (homework or test) from optional parts of Chapter 5.
- 2/01/01
- Help session: Next Mon. 6:30pm, SW007.
- Good practice for exam: past exams, homework, and other problems from book.
- 1/31/01
- HW#4 is challenging! Don't spend too much time on P26c.
- It is great practice for exam #1!
- Exam #1: Next Wed. 2/7 8am SW007.
- Help session: Next Mon. 6:30pm, room TBA.
- Good practice for exam: homework and other problems from book.
- Student solutions manual is in library. It has solutions for
every other odd numbered problem (1,5,9,13...)
- 1/22/01
- Check out the physics forum in SW246 for additional physics help.
Tayloe is there M 11:15-12:20am.
- 1/19/01
- Homework #1 will count full credit if you turned it in. The
grading system will be improved for following homeworks.
- For future homeworks, 5 (randomly chosen) problems from each
assignment will be graded carefully for a total of 25 pts. The
final total will be scaled to 15% of total grade.
- Please write neatly, circle final answer, and staple your homework
sheets.
- 1/17/01
- Tayloe's office hours will be M 9-11am, W 2-3:30pm in SW207
- 1/11/01
- Homework due today by noon! Put in drop box.
- Next week's homework on syllabus.
- Typo's found in book:
(in single volume), symbol for degrees is upside-down exclamation point;
conversion for mile to km incorrect in inside cover, 1mile=1.609km
- No class Monday 1/15.
- 1/9/01
- Homework problems Chap. 2: Q11,Q20,P4 are solved graphically. Make sure you
do P4 with correct lengths and angles.
- P222 next semester will use same book (Reese).
- 1/2/01 - First day o' class is 1/8/01!
Rex Tayloe
Last modified: Wed May 2 14:26:41 EST 2001