PHY 2049 - Physics 2 with Calculus - Spring 2017
Announcements
April 29 |
Exam scores, final-exam answer key: Your scores for the final exam and makeup exam, if you
have taken one, have been uploaded to Canvas. The makeup exam score appears under the exam you have missed. The answer
key for the final exam is in Canvas, in the "Exam Solutions" file folder. We are planning on submitting final grades
to the Registrar this evening.
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April 22 |
Missed the Exam? If you could not come to the final exam for an
unexpected, legitimate reason, please immediately send an email to phy2049 AT phys.ufl.edu, explaining your situation
and attaching a supporting document. In your email, please also list all possible times at which you will be able to
take a make-up exam on Thursday, April 27, or Friday, April 28.
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April 20 |
WileyPLUS service interruption: WileyPLUS has announced a scheduled
service interruption that will last from 1 AM to 7 AM Saturday, April 22. We have requested Wiley to postpone it,
but we strongly advise you the following before the interruption, if you think you may need to look at homework problems
or solutions, or the online book on Saturday after 1 AM before the exam. (1) Download any homework file by clicking the
homework in WileyPLUS, scrolling to the bottom, then clicking the blue link labeled "print a blank copy" under "Print
Assignment". (2) Take a screenshot of any solution by opening the homework problem, then clicking the button labeled
"Show Solution" near the bottom. (3) Take advantage of the offer from Wiley and get a free copy of the textbook as an
ebook, which you can keep. For details, go to "Announcements" in Canvas and read the announcement dated February 14.
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April 18 |
Instructor evaluations: Please evaluate the instructors and your TA at
https://evaluations.ufl.edu.
Your feedback is very important to us. Final exam problems: As has been announced on the Course Schedule webpage, half of the 20 problems in the final exam will be on the new material, corresponding to Chapter 31, Section 4 through Chapter 36 of the book. Among the other half, about 4 problems from Exams 1 and 2 will reappear with some changes -- we mean about 4 in total, not about 4 from each Exam. In addition to those we listed before Exam 1, the following sections of the book will not be covered by the exam.
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April 17 |
Final exam rooms: The final exam will be on Saturday, April 22, 7:30 - 9:30 am. (In the
morning, not in the evening!) The room to take your exam depends on the first letter of your last name (family name).
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April 15 |
Prof. Mueller's Office hours, Monday: Prof. Mueller will not be able to hold office hours
Monday, April 17. If you would like to see him before the final exam, please send an email to phy2049 AT phys.ufl.edu.
He will try to arrange a time on Friday, April 21.
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April 14 |
Final exam review: Thursday, April 20, 6:15 pm - 8:10 pm, NPB 1002, the smaller lecture hall
right next to Rm. 1001. The review will follow the same format as the last two. Bring your questions and a list
of problems you would like to be discussed; they can be from any source, including past exams, the textbook,
and HITT quizzes.
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Recommended problems from Chapter 36: three problems at the end of the chapter are highly
recommended--Problems 9, 29, and 44.
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April 12 |
Make-up Exam: An email about the make-up exam has been sent to those students who had an excused
absence for one of the three exams. If you have been approved by the instructors to take the make-up exam but have
not received the email in the last two days, please contact phy2049 AT phys.ufl.edu. If you think you are entitled to take
the make-up exam although you have not received an email, please also contact phy2049 AT phys.ufl.edu explaining your
situation.
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April 4 |
HITT scores: The second summary of your HITT scores was emailed to you this morning. If you
have received no email, you have not correctly registered your remote and you must re-register your remote.
If you have received an email but the scores are all or mostly zero, although you have taken many HITT quizzes, then
it means you have registered your remote for a wrong period. In that case, please re-register your remote for the period
you have been attending.
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March 29 |
Exam scores and a grade-prediction spreadsheet are posted in Canvas. The spreadsheet allows you
to predict your final grade under different scenarios: a simple extrapolation, best case, worst case, etc. To download
it, click on "Files" in the Canvas menu, and look for the Excel file entitled "PHY2049GradePredictor_S2017.xlsx".
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March 27 |
Solutions to Exam 2 problems are posted in Canvas. Click on "Files" in the menu, then open the
Exam Solutions folder. Exam scores will be uploaded shortly to Canvas.
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March 22 |
Typos in lecture slides: Two errors have been found by a student in two slides for Chapter 27.
In 2017.02.10_Ch27_L2.pdf, a wrong answer was marked on the third slide, entitled 'QUIZ', for a HITT quiz. The correct
answer is R=r. In 2017.02.10_Ch27_L3.pdf, the loop-rule equation for the second loop was the same as that for the first
loop and was wrong. Both typos have been corrected in the revised slide files posted in Canvas.
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March 20 |
Exam 2 areas: The exam covers all sections of the text book from Chapter 27 up to
Section 31.3 of the 10th edition. Note: in the 9th edition, this is up to Section 31.8.
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March 16 |
Review for Exam 2 will be given on Monday, March 20, 6:15 pm - 8:10 pm, in Florida Gym room
210. The review will be similar in format to the last one for Exam 1. Come to the review with questions and a list
of problems you would like to be discussed; they can be from any source, including past exams, the textbook,
HITT quizzes.
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March 16 |
Exam 2 locations: The exam will be on Friday, March 24, 8:20 - 10:10 pm.
Your room depends on the first letter of your last name (family name).
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March 10 |
Office hours update: Prof. Takano will not be available for office hours on Wednesday, March 15.
Instead, he will have his office hours on Thursday, March 16, periods 6 and 7 (12:50 pm - 2:45 pm).
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March 2 |
HITT scores were emailed to you this afternoon. If you have received no email, it means
you have not correctly registered your remote. Please re-register your remote in that case. If you have received an
email but the scores are all or mostly zero, although you have taken many HITT quizzes, then it means you have
registered your remote for a wrong period. In that case, please re-register your remote for the period you have been
attending.
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February 28 |
Homework 7 deadline has been extended by 24 hours, because Canvas was experiencing service
disruption this afternoon until about 4:30 pm. The service is now back. We encourage you to be prudent and complete your
homework by tomorrow noon at the latest, since Canvas may go down again.
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February 21 |
WileyPLUS problem 27-50: You may have found the solution given by WileyPLUS to this problem--
a Homework 5 problem--difficult to follow. If so, the alternative solutions posted in Canvas may help you. In Canvas,
look for a pdf file entitled WileyPLUS27-050solution.pdf.
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February 17 |
Grading Policy typos: As some of you have pointed out to us, there were typographical errors
on the Grading Policy page. 12 discussion-section quizzes are planned for this course, instead of 10 as was written
on the page. Correspondingly, 12, instead of 10, should appear in two places in the formula for the Final Quiz Score,
further down the page. These errors have now been corrected.
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February 16 |
Exam scores and solutions are posted in Canvas. To see the solutions, go to Files, then to the folder
entitled Exam Solutions.
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February 15 |
Errors in posted slides: The slide file 2017.02.13_Ch27_L3.pdf, posted right after the lecture
on February 13, contained errors. The answer was marked incorrectly to the last clicker question about RC circtuits,
and the solution on the next slide did not match the question. These errors have been corrected.
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February 15 |
The answer key to Exam l is posted in Canvas. Go to Files, then to the folder
entitled Exam Solutions.
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February 12 |
Clicker questions asked in the lectures for Chapters 23 and 24 have been posted
as a single file in Canvas.
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February 10 |
Exam 1 areas: All sections of the book in Chapters 21 - 26 will be the areas
of Exam 1, with the following exceptions. (They refer to the 10th edition and online book, not to earlier editions.)
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February 8 |
WileyPLUS service was interrupted last night, when HW4 was due. Unfortunately,
we were not able to extend the deadline, which had passed before the service was restored. Instead, we
will exclude HW4 in the computation of your final HW scores. The formula for the HW-score calculation
will be [Sum of 12 HW Weighted Scores]/(0.9 x 12) x 5, in which HW4 is excluded.
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February 2 |
Review for Exam 1 will be given on Thursday, February 9, 6:15 pm - 8:10 pm,
in Florida Gym room 220. The first half of the review will be a short summary of subjects,
followed by example problems chosen by the instructor. In the second half, he will show how to do
problems chosen by students from past exams, the textbook, HITT quizzes, and other sources. Come
to the review with questions and a list of problems you would like to be discussed.
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February 1 |
Exam 1 locations: The first exam will be on Tuesday, February 14, 8:20 - 10:10 pm.
Your room depends on the first letter of your last name (family name).
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January 22 |
Office hours, Wednesday: Prof. Takano will not be able to hold his office
hours on Wednesday, January 25. Instead, his office hours this week will be on Tuesday, January 24,
periods 4 (10:40 am - 11:30 am) and 8 (3:00 pm - 3:50 pm).
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January 9 |
Slides used in today's lectures have been posted at e-Learning,
along with slides intended for Wednesday. Preliminary slides posted before lectures will be labeled
.....-P1.pdf, .....-P2.pdf, etc., with the letter "P" near the end of the file name. After the lectures,
they will be replaced with the final slides actually used, labeled with a letter "L" in place of the "P".
This will be the last announcement about lecture slides. In the future, they will be posted without
announcements.
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January 6 |
Slides used in the lectures on Wednesday and today have been posted at
e-Learning. In e-Learning, click on "Courses," choose "PHY2049: Physics with Calc 2, Spring 2017," then
click on "Files" on the inner sidebar.
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January 3 |
WARNING about WileyPLUS:
To access WileyPLUS through e-Learning, you must first purchase a registration code either at the
UF bookstore with a printed copy of the book or at a special Wiley website with an online access
to the book. If you try to register for WileyPLUS through e-Learning without a registration code, you
may end up paying $140 for a code instead of the UF-negotiated price of $40. More information
will be posted shortly on the "Textbook" and "Register:WileyPlus" webpages, accessible from the menu
bar on the left.
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January 2 |
Welcome to PHY2049!
Studying physics is rewarding. We hope you will enjoy the course. This opening web page will have all current announcements. Please make sure to bookmark it and check it periodically, especially if you happen to miss a lecture. No announcements will be made via Canvas. The collection of the links in the left bar constitutes the syllabus for the course. Here are a few upcoming important events and deadlines:
And let us remind again: The collection of the links in the left bar constitutes the syllabus for the course. Please make sure to read all the links. If you have a question now or later, the chance that the answer is in the syllabus is nearly 100%. |