PHY 2048 - Physics I with Calculus - SPRING 2011
DISCUSSION SECTION QUIZZES (discussion sections start the first week of classes. The quiz schedule is below.)
A quiz will be administered during almost all of your discussion section meetings. The quizzes will test how well you learned the concepts and methods of the previous weeks homework problems. Starting the first week, you will have homework that must be submitted online by 11:00 pm usually on Friday night. (Note that you are encouraged to work and submit the homework well before the time it is due so you can get help when you need it). The quiz in your next discussion section will be closely related to ONE of the homework problems selected at random from the most recently due set. The problem may be restructured to provide guidance, allow awarding of partial credit and discourage memorization of only the formula for the solution. The particular problem given in each discussion section is chosen at random so sometimes it will be one of the easier problems from the homework set and sometimes it will be a harder problem (different sections will get different problems).
We are telling you exactly what you must learn for this portion of your grade: the methods for solving a set of homework problems. You know what the possible problems are going to be for the quiz in a given week. In return, we expect you to learn how to do these problems on your own without any notes or other help (i.e. there are no crib sheets for the quizzes!). In doing the online homework you can get help in discussion section, office hours, from tutors and from other students. However, in the end you must understand the methods needed to do the problems on your own. The quizzes will give partial credit (0-5 points) so if you set up the problem correctly but make an algebraic or arithmetic mistake you will get some of the credit for the problem.
You will be permitted no more than 2 documented (e.g. medical note) absences from the discussion sections, with make-ups for missed quizzes to take place at the first opportunity determined by your TA. The documentation must be provided to your TA within 2 weeks of the missed quiz or a rational reason that it will be delayed must be e-mailed along with the projected receipt date of the documentation to both your TA and to the course e-mail address (phy2048@phys.ufl.edu) within those 2 weeks.
The quiz portion of the course will count for 20% of the overall course grade. No quizzes will be dropped. However, there is 10% "forgiveness". That is it is graded out of 10x5=50, but then the scores are chopped off to have a maximum 45, and then those 45 points give 20% of your grade.
| Quiz Schedule | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Quiz | Date | Quiz Problem | |
| 1 | Week starting 1/24 | HW Set 2 | |
| 2 | Week starting 2/7 | HW Set 4 | |
| 3 | Week starting 2/14 | HW Set 5 | |
| 4 | Week starting 2/21 | HW Set 6 | |
| 5 | Week starting 2/28 | HW Set 7 | |
| 6 | Week starting 3/14 | HW Set 8 | |
| 7 | Week starting 3/21 | HW Set 9 | |
| 8 | Week starting 3/28 | HW Set 10 | |
| 9 | Week starting 4/4 | HW Set 11 | |
| 10 | Week starting 4/11 | HW Set 12 | |