Apr. 27

Your final letter grades have been calculated on Canvas.

Apr. 25

Your final quiz score has been uploaded to Canvas, including a small normalization across discussion leaders to ensure a uniform average. The final HITT scores were also uploaded, and your final total grade was computed based on all this.

Apr. 25

The raw scores for the final exam (out of 20 questions) have been uploaded to Canvas. The exam average was 12.8. Also the solution key has been uploaded under Files/Exam keys and solutions.

Apr. 20

For those that took the make-up exam last night, scores have been uploaded to Canvas. The exam average was 12.2

Apr. 18

Prof. Acosta will do some review questions in class on Wednesday, Apr. 20.

Discussion instructor Daniel Jackson will hold an exam review on Wednesday the 20th at 5 pm. Students should meet him in the NPB lobby then and they will find a classroom. He will post to canvas what room they end up in.

Apr. 15

Jonathan Thompson will be unable to hold office hours on Friday, April 15. He will reschedule for next Monday, from 11:40-12:30.

Apr. 14

Please take a moment to fill out an evaluation for each of the three instructors and your TA using the link: https://evaluations.ufl.edu/
Your feedback is very much appreciated. Also feel free to provide your feedback on the supplementary online lectures (either through the evaluations system or directly). Thank you!

Apr. 13

The due date for the last homework assignment, HW13, has been extended until Monday, April 18, 10:00pm to give more time to cover the material in lecture.

Apr. 12

The final exam is April 23, Saturday morning, 10:00am - 12:00pm. The room to take your exam depends on the first letter (or letters) of your LAST name:

A-J: Carleton Hall (CAR) 0100
K-L: Weil Hall (WEIL) 270
M-P: Turlington Hall (TUR) L007
Q-T: McCarty Hall C (MCCC) 0100
U-Z: Turlington Hall (TUR) L005

You must attend the correct room or you could receive a zero for the exam. Also, please record your exam code when you receive your exam for future reference. Due to FERPA regulations we cannot hand back your exams in class.

Note that exams are closed book. Material you are allowed to bring, including a calculator and TWO single handwritten formula sheets, is listed here.

The coverage of the final exam is 60% from Ch.12-17, and 40% from earlier chapters. Six problems from the earlier chapters will come from Exams 1 and 2, except with numbers changed.

Apr.7

For those students who had an excused absence for one of the three exams this semester (must have been confirmed with the instructors), the date and time has been confirmed:

Tuesday, April 19th 6:15PM-8:10PM, room 1002 NPB

The make-up exam is cumulative of the material of the course. You are allowed TWO handwritten formula sheets.

Apr.10

Your Wiley scores through HW12 and your H-ITT points collected until Apr.8 have been uploaded to Canvas. A maximum of 70 HITT points were possible so far (68 for per.5 lecture). In addition, your projected quiz, homework, HITT, and overall course grade points have been recalculated and uploaded, assuming your performance for the rest of the term equals the average so far. If you used an HITT remote and see a zero loaded, it means either you haver not registered your H-ITT remote yet or there is a technical problem with its use. Please see the registration page here.

Apr. 7

Daniel Jackson will be unable to hold office hours on Friday, April 8. He will will make it up with an exam review the week of the final.

Apr.6

The online lecture video for the simple pendulum, 15.4, has been redone and its link updated.

Apr.3

Your Wiley scores through HW11 and your H-ITT points collected until Apr.1 have been uploaded to Canvas. A maximum of 62 HITT points were possible so far (60 for per.5 lecture). In addition, your projected homework and HITT grades have been re-uploaded, assuming your performance for the rest of the term equals the average so far. Look for 'HW Grade' and 'HITT Grade' in the Canvas gradebook. If you used an HITT remote and see a zero loaded, it means either you haver not registered your H-ITT remote yet or there is a technical problem with its use. Please see the registration page here.

Mar.28

Projected grades have been uploaded to Canvas. In all cases a projected grade assumes your future performance will equal the average of your past performance. The projected exam grade is based on exam 1 and exam 2 (scaling to 75 points maximum). If you had a zero for either, we assumed you had a legitimate reason to miss that exam and are on the make-up list and therefore based the projection on just one exam. If this is not the case, the projection is an overestimate. The quiz projection is based on the six quizzes 2-7 (except quiz 5 for those in sections 2852, 3702, 3703, 7127), including a 10% drop. The homework and HITT projected grades are as of Mar.19. An overall projected course grade is also uploaded summing each of the components. The grading scale is here. We do not anticipate curving the grades.

Mar.25

Your raw exam score out of 20 questions (the number of problems you got correct) has been uploaded to Canvas. The class average for the exam was 13.0. The distribution of scores is here. Your exam points (each exam is worth 25 points) is your raw score multiplied by 1.25. The Exam key has been loaded to Canvas also. Go to the "Files" tab, and then select "Exam keys and solutions".

Note that an issue with some scores not uploading has been fixed as of 11:15am.

The answers you selected on the master key, as indexed by your exam code, is posted as a file also in the same directory: "Exam 2 Answers Selected By Exam Code.pdf". A "1" means you selected the correct answer, any other number is which incorrect answer you selected.

Mar.23

Please note that homework assignments 10 - 13 have been posted to Wiley Plus and to the homework list on this web site. HW10 is due this Saturday.

Mar.21 (Spring!)

We are looking for someone to take notes during lecture on behalf of the Dean of Students Office. Compensation is provided. If you are interested, please contact one of the instructors

Mar.20

Your Wiley scores through HW9 and your H-ITT points collected until Mar.18 have been uploaded to Canvas. A maximum of 48 HITT points were possible so far. In addition, your projected homework and HITT grades have been uploaded, assuming your performance for the rest of the term equals the average so far. Look for 'HW Grade' and 'HITT Grade' in the Canvas gradebook. If you used an HITT remote and see a zero loaded, it means either you haver not registered your H-ITT remote yet or there is a technical problem with its use. Please see the registration page here.

Mar. 18

The second exam is March 22, Tuesday night, 8:20-10:10PM. It will cover chapters 6-11. The room to take your exam depends on the first letter (or letters) of your LAST name:

A-C: Turlington Hall (TUR) L007
D-Hol: Norman Hall NRN 0137
Hop-Mis: New Physics Building (NPB) 1001
Mk-Z: Carleton Hall (CAR) 0100

You must attend the correct room or you could receive a zero for the exam. Also, please record your exam code when you receive your exam for future reference. Due to FERPA regulations we cannot hand back your exams in class.

Note that exams are closed book. Material you are allowed to bring, including a calculator and your own single handwritten formula sheet, is listed here.

Mar.14 ("Pi" Day!)

Prof. Acosta's Monday office hours will be in the morning, 10:00am to 12:00. See the full schedule for other instructor availability here.

Mar.13

Your Wiley scores through HW8 and your H-ITT points collected until Mar.11 have been uploaded to Canvas (Mar.9 for period 5). A maximum of 42 points were possible so far (40 points for Period 5, through Mar.9). If you used a remote and see a zero loaded, it means either you haver not registered your H-ITT remote yet or there is a technical problem with its use. Please see the registration page here.

Mar.8

Prof. Matcheva will not be available for office hours on Mar.9 this week due to meeting conflicts. Also note that Prof. Acosta will not be available for office hours Mar.7, 11. However feel free to email him your questions, or please see the schedule for other instructor availability here.

Mar.6

Due to a Wiley Plus outage, the deadline for HW7 is extended to Sunday evening (Mar.6) at 10PM.

Prof. Acosta is back on the road this week and will not be available for office hours Mar.7, 11. However feel free to email him your questions, or please see the schedule for other instructor availability here.

Feb.23

Your Wiley scores through HW6 and your H-ITT points collected until Feb.22 have been uploaded to Canvas. A maximum of 30 points were possible so far. If you used a remote and see a zero loaded, it means either you haver not registered your H-ITT remote yet or there is a technical problem with its use. Please see the registration page here.

Feb.16

Prof. Acosta is back in town and available. To make up for missed office hours, feel free to arrange an afternoon appointment in the coming couple weeks or stop by, and if free he will be happy to help.

Feb.16

Your Wiley scores through HW5 and your H-ITT points collected since Feb.12 (Feb.8 for period 5) have been uploaded to Canvas. A maximum of 22 points (20 points for period 5) were possible so far. If you used a remote and see a zero loaded, it means either you haver not registered your H-ITT remote yet or there is a technical problem with its use. Please see the registration page here.

Feb.11

For the first time the collision of two black holes has been observed through the first ever direct detection of gravitational waves, ripples of spacetime predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (Gravitation). Find out more information here, including UF's involvement in the LIGO experiment.

Feb.10

Discussion leader Jonathan Thompson's office hours this week on Thursday and Friday are cancelled due to illness.

Discussion leader Daniel Jackson's Friday period 3 office hour will be moved to Thursday period 4 for this week.

Prof. Acosta will be unavailable for office hours Feb.1-15 due to research related travel. However feel free to email him your questions, or please see the schedule for other instructor availability here.

Feb.5

Your raw exam 1 score (out of 20) has been uploaded to Canvas. Average was 14/20. Details here.

The answer key for Exam 1 is posted on Canvas. Go to the "Files" tab, and then select "Exam keys and solutions". Or click directly on this link. The correct answer is the first answer choice listed.

The answers you selected on this master key, as indexed by your exam code, is posted as a file also in the same directory: "Exam 1 Answers Selected By Exam Code.pdf". A "1" means you selected the correct answer, any other number is which incorrect answer you selected.

Feb.2

Discussion leader Daniel Jackson will offer an exam review Wednesday. Please meet him at his office, or email him if you show up after 4pm in case the room changes. His coordinates are here.

Discussion leader Sunil Thapa may not be back in time for his Friday office hours, 4-5pm.

Prof. Acosta will be unavailable for office hours Feb.1-15 due to research related travel. However feel free to email him your questions, or please see the schedule for other instructor availability here.

Jan. 29

You H-ITT points collected since Jan.20 have been uploaded to Canvas. A maximum of 12 points were possible so far. If you used a remote and see a zero loaded, it means either you haver not registered your H-ITT remote yet or there is a technical problem with its use. Please see the registration page here.

Jan. 28

The first exam is in 7 days, February 4, Thursday night, 8:20-10:10PM. It will cover chapters 1-5. The room to take your exam depends on the first letter (or letters) of your LAST name:

A-C: Turlington Hall (TUR) L007
D-Hol: Norman Hall NRN 0137
Hop-Mis: New Physics Building (NPB) 1001
Mk-Z: Carleton Hall (CAR) 0100

You must attend the correct room or you could receive a zero for the exam. Also, please record your exam code when you receive your exam for future reference. Due to FERPA regulations we cannot hand back your exams in class.

Note that exams are closed book. Material you are allowed to bring, including a calculator and your own single handwritten formula sheet, is listed here.

Jan. 25

Daniel Jackson will not be able to hold his office hours this Thursday and Friday due to a family emergency. Also note that Prof. Acosta will not be able to hold his office hour on Monday, Jan.25. Please see any of the other instructors and TAs according to the schedule here.

Jan. 17

Prof. Acosta will not be able to hold his office hours on Friday, Jan.22, and Monday, Jan.25, due to research related travel. Please see any of the other instructors and TAs according to the schedule here. Also please note that Monday, Jan.18 is a holiday (MLK day).

Jan. 13

Good job with completing HW0, taking Quiz 0, and attending lectures and watching the online lectures! It's a good recipe to stay on top of the material of this course. Don't forget HW1 due Saturday will count for credit.

Jan. 4

Discussion sections will meet this first week of class T-F for initial orientation to the course. You can find the list of sections, room numbers, and discussion leaders here.

This opening web page will have all current announcements---please make sure to bookmark it. Check this page periodically, especially if you happen to miss a lecture. The collection of the links in the left bar constitutes the syllabus for the course.

If you plan to purchase the WileyPlus homework code and textbook online, please use this special link so that you get the UF discount price:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-822622.html

You also get the homework code bundled with the hardcopy textbook available at the UF bookstore. If you try to just create an account from within Wiley, you most likely will pay full price...

Here are a few upcoming important events and deadlines to note:
Class start: January 6
H-ITT counts: January 20
Exam 1: February 4
Exam 2: March 22
Final Exam: April 23

The course also has additional material on the Canvas E-learning site. This includes grade information, lecture notes, homework and exam solutions, and new for this semester links to online lecture videos! Be the first to view these lecures. Find a mistake? Earn extra credit points to be combined with your HITT score! (See details under the grading policy).