General Physics II (PH 102, Sect. 002, P. Visscher) Spring 2010

What's New in Sec. 002 (1 PM))[Not your section?]

• 5/6/10: Grades are now posted on eLearning. FinalExam means raw score, FinalExamGrade is the grade on the 0-4 scale, corresponding to the cutoffs A>35.92>B>31.61>C>27.30>D>22.99>F. COURSE means overall course grade, and "Final" means overall course letter grade. It should agree with the one on MyBama.
• 5/6/10: I had to throw out one question of the 41 (#34 or #10, "in an atom with 26 electrons" give the structure -- I mis-remembered the Z at which the simple rules you are supposed to know break down. The subshells don't fill exactly in order for Z ~ 26, and you aren't expected to know exactly how they do fill. Because of this and other distractions, final grades aren't posted yet, but solutions are ("Exams" link below). Highest score = 37/41, average 29.9. Hopefully grades will be posted today (Thursday).
• 5/2/10: Grades posted yesterday were slightly wrong (I used the quiz grade from mid-term instead of the current one). It's fixed now, please re-check your grade.
• 5/1/10: Clicker grades (15 points total + 2 extra credit proportional to score on assessment) are posted for Sec. 2. Overall grades too -- see below. Note that the other section had a couple more exercises, so Exercise 14 and Exercise 15 will be blank -- they are not counted in your grade. The Feb. 2 clicker question will be blank for the same reason. (Don't worry, we had some things they didn't too.)
• 4/26/10: Raw scores and grades are posted on eLearning from Test 3. Tentative scale is A>20.43>B>16.68>C>12.93>D>9.18>F.
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Links for Sec. 002 (1PM):

What's New in PH 102 (both sections):

• 5/1/10: Final exam will cover through Section 30.5. There is a sample final (with tentative equation list and a few sample problems from Chapters 29 and 30, with a text file of solutions) on the Sample Exams link below. I put the question about quarks in the last problem set because it was the only one I could find on Quest related to elementary particles -- it can be solved by looking ahead to Table 30.4. However, don't worry about it for the final exam. Know how to balance nuclear reactions, and the basics of fusion and fission. Know the 5 long-lived nuclei with A<=4.
• 5/1/10: All grades except (of course) the final exam are on eLearning. To give you some idea where you stand, I posted a projected final exam grade (Est.Final.Grade) which is just the average of your 3 test grades, and computed what your course grade would be (Est.COURSE) if you got that on the final exam. Naturally, your actual course grade will depend on how well you do on the final. The course grade is just the average of the other grades (tests, lab & exercises, quizzes, clickers, homework, final exam) with the weightings given in the syllabus (12x3,20,9,3,12,20). In averaging the labs, exercises, and homework, the lowest grade was dropped.
• 4/30/10: I'm putting grades on eLearning. It doesn't have a way to insert explanations of what the numbers mean, and it's awkward to have long titles, so they tend to be terse. "1 Exam" means 1st exam, "1ExGrade" means grade (on A=4 scale) on 1st exam. LabEx means labs&exercises combined, LEGrade is the grade for labs & exercises. Qtot is quiz total, Qgrade is quiz grade, HW % is homework (out of 100), HW Grade is grade (A=4 scale) on homework. C.Feb2 means clickers from Feb. 2, C.Total is total number of clicker points (including extra credit from the E&M assessment.) Assess is the raw score (out of 29) on the E&M Assessment you did in class -- 2*Assess/29 is added to your clicker total. This amount is given as Assess.Pts. Clicker questions are collected in one file Clicker.ppt on the Lecture .ppts directory below.
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