PHY 2048 - Physics with Calculus 1 - Summer 2016


DISCUSSION SECTION QUIZZES (discussion sections start the first week of classes and quizzes start May 17th and 18th onwards)


A quiz will be administered during many of your discussion section meetings (11 total quizzes). The quizzes will test how well you learned the concepts and methods of the assigned homework problems. The quiz will be very closely related to your practice homework problems. The problems may be restructured to provide guidance, allow awarding of partial credit and discourage memorization of only the formula for the solution. You are expected to learn how to do the homework problems on your own without any notes or other help (i.e. there are no crib sheets for the quizzes!). In doing the online practice homework you can get help in discussion section, office hours, from tutors and from other students. However, in the end you must learn the methods needed to do the problems on your own. The quizzes will give partial credit and be graded 0 to 5 points. If you set up the problem correctly but make an algebraic mistake you will get some of the credit for the problem. You will be allowed to make-up a maximum of three missed quizzes provided that you have a valid documented excuse (e.g. medical note). You will have to take the make-up quiz within 3 weeks of your missed quiz and there will be no make-up quizzes after July 29, 2016.

To provide a measure of forgiveness for possible missed quizzes, 10% of the quiz grades will be dropped in evaluating your final grade. The quiz portion of the course will count for 20% of the overall course grade.


PHY2048 Quiz Schedule*
WeekQuizDateQuiz Problem
15/10-11/16No Quiz - First Discussion
215/17-18/16Chapter 1.1-3.3
325/24-25/16Chapter 4.1-5.2
435/31/16-6/1/16Chapter 5.2-6.3
546/7-8/16Chapter 7.1-7.4
656/14-15/16Chapter 8.1-9.6
76/21-22/16No Quiz - Summer Break
866/28-29/16Chapter 9.7-10.8
977/5-6/16Chapter 11.1-11.9
1087/12-13/16Chapter 12.1-12.2
1197/19-20/16Chapter 12.3-14
12107/26-27/16Chapter 15
13118/1-2/16Chapter 16-17
*Quizzes are in the discussion sections.