PHY 2048 Textbook:

PHY 2048 Lecturers
Peter Hirschfeld	Katia Matcheva

PHY 2048 Lectures (MWF 2 & 3):

• Lecture Notes on the PHY2048 WEBsite.
• The PHY 2048 class schedule shows the material covered in each lecture.
• Graded class participation using the H-ITT student response system every lecture. To get credit you must register on the system (see the instructions in the syllabus).
• In class HITT responses will begin to count towards your course grade starting on on Wednesday January 14, 2009, but you should get your remotes sooner for practice questions that will help you to become familiar with the system before the questions starting counting toward your grade.

PHY 2048 Teaching Assistants
Rick Field	Ivan Furic	Andrew Hill
Alper Duru	Jesus Escobar	Joe Grange

PHY 2048 Discussion Sections:

• Discussion sections will start the first day of classes.
• Will emphasize problem solving.
• Quizzes during the last 10 minutes of every discussion section (starting on Monday January 12, 2009.)
• The quizzes will test how well you learned the concepts and methods of the previous weeks homework problems. The grade you receive on the previous homework set is directly tied to your performance on the quiz.
• The quiz will be closely related to ONE of the homework problems selected at random from the most recently due homework set.
• Your quizzes will be graded on a scale from 0.00 to 1.00 and will be used to determine your homework times quiz grade (see below).

PHY 2048 "Coordinator"
Rick Field	The PHY 2048 coordinator is responsible for the following: The Overall Course Grades The WileyPLUS Homework The Homework Solutions Organize the Quizzes The Exams & Final

PHY 2048 Overall Course Grades:

• The Exams & Final:
• There will be three in-term exams and a cumulative final exam.
• These exams will not take place in your lecture hall in the physics building. Room assignments for where you must go to take the exams will be announced during class and posted on the course web page.
• Exams are multiple choice with your answers bubbled in on Scantron sheets.
• To each in-term exam you may bring a single hand written formula sheet on 8½ x 11 inch paper (both sides) and you should bring a calculator (calculators may not be shared and may not have electronic communications capability), #2 pencils, an eraser and your picture ID (preferably your UF-ID).
• Unless superseded by a valid excuse a missed exam will result in a zero. Valid excuses are officially sanctioned UF events, medical excuses or family emergencies. Acceptable excuses will require a coach’s, doctor’s or instructor sanctioned note with a verifiable contact phone number. The documentation must be provided to your instructor within 2 weeks of the missed exam.
• A valid excuse will allow you to take the cumulative make-up exam to replace the zero on the missed exam. There will be one cumulative make-up exam (covering material from all three exams) given on Wednesday April 22, 2009. The grade on this make-up exam will replace the missed exam.
• The three in-term exams and the final exam will be equally weighted and count for 70% of the overall course grade. None of the exam grades will be dropped.
• Practice exams will be uploaded to the Class Section Documents section of the WileyPLUS site and also posted on the PHY2048 E-Learning WEBsite.

• The On-Line Graded Homework:
• On-line graded WileyPLUS homework is due every Friday by 11:00pm starting on Friday January 9, 2009.
• To get onto the online homework system you will need to enter the access code that came with the hardcopy textbook (option 1) or to have purchased the access code with the on-line text (option 2).
• To register go to WileyPLUS and click "Register" and follow the instructions there. (See this short tutorial.)
• To properly get credit for your efforts you must enter the following "Student Profile" information correctly:
• First Name: Your first name as it appears on the Registrars list for PHY2048.
• Last Name: Your last name (i.e. family name) as it appears on the Registrars list for PHY2048.
• E-mail: Your Gatorlink E-mail address (i.e. name@ufl.edu).
• Phone: Your phone number.
• Student ID: Your UF-ID number (8 digit, e.g. 12345678).

• The Homework times Quiz (i.e. HW×Quiz) Grade:
• Your homework×quiz grade for the week is obtained by multiplying your homework score by the quiz score (out of 1.00) you received for the associated quiz problem.
• If you scored 100% on the homework and you get a 1.00, you get the full credit towards your homework×quiz grade.
• If you scored 100% on the homework but only get 0.5 on the quiz you get 50% of the credit towards your grade (100% × 0.50 = 50%).
• If you scored 50% on the homework and 0.5 on the quiz you get 25% of the credit (50% × 0.50 = 25%), etc..
• Note that if you score 100% on the homework and get a zero on the quiz you get NO homework×quiz credit for that week (100% × 0.00 = 0).
• To provide a measure of forgiveness for illnesses and other challenges that life throws at you, 10% of the homework problems will be dropped in evaluating your final grade.
• The homework×quiz portion of the course will count for 25% of the overall course grade.

• Student Response System - HITT Grade:
• In class student participation using the H-ITT student response system will be done in every lecture (starting on Friday January 9, 2009).
• In class HITT responses will begin to count towards your course grade starting on on Wednesday January 14, 2009, but you should get your remotes sooner for practice questions that will help you to become familiar with the system before the questions starting counting toward your grade.
• The transmitter will let you respond to questions posed during class. Your response will be recorded. Simply responding will get you 1 point credit for the question while responding correctly will get you 2 points credit.
• To get credit you must register on the system (see the instructions in the syllabus).
• It is your responsibility to ensure that your remote is functioning properly and that you are sending on the correct channel (see the instructions for setting the remote channel). It is recommended that you set the channel at the start of each lecture.
• To provide a measure of forgiveness for unavoidable missed classes and for problems with the HITT transmitter, 20% of the HITT problems will be dropped in evaluating your final grade.
• Your HITT grade will count as 5% of your overall course grade.

Overall Course Grade:

• The formula for estimating your overall course grade is here.

PHY2048 E-Learning WEBsite:

• The lectures notes, quiz grades, homework grades, quiz×homework grades, and estimated course grades will be posted on the PHY2048 E-Learning WEBsite.

How to Succeed in PHY2048:

• It is expected that a successful student will invest at least twelve hours studying and problem-solving per week outside of class. Do not expect a good grade if you are not prepared to work this much.
• Read the assigned chapters before coming to lecture. The importance of this cannot be overemphasized.
• Work as many problems as possible on a weekly basis; the assigned (graded) problems represent the minimum recommended set. Go to instructor’s and discussion leaders’ office hours for individual help (this can be highly effective and should be regarded as free tutoring; make use of it!). To maximize the availability of this help you can go to any Instructor or Section Leader’s office hours.
• Keep up on a regular basis; cramming doesn’t work for learning physics.
• This course is designed to make you a good "problem solver". Learn to solve the problems. Don’t spend your time looking for a formula to plug into. Derive the correct formula for the problem you are working on using the general formulas. This is a difficult course, but if you work hard and learn to be a good "problem solver" it will help you in all your future endeavors!

There is a strong correlation between scores on the HW×quiz grades and the exam scores (from Fall 2007).