PHY 2053 "Coordinator"
Rick Field	The PHY 2053 coordinator is responsible for the following: Maintain the three WEBsites Maintain the grades The Estimated and Overall Course Grades The McGraw-Hill ConnectPhysics On-Line Homework Organize the Quizzes The Exams, Final, Make-Up (with input from Ivan Furic)

PHY 2053 WEBsites:
There are three PHY2053 WEBsites that you will need to use.

• The Physics Department PHY2053 WEBsite at http://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy2053/fall11/ This site contains the class announcements, the assigned homework problems, the course schedule, exam room assignments, and the course syllabus. You should check the class announcements on a regular basis.


• The University of Florida e-Learning PHY2053 WEBsite at https://lss.at.ufl.edu/. This site contains previous exams, correct answers for your exams, the class lectures, and the course grades. Estimated course grades will be posted here after each of the two exams and your final course grades will be posted here after the final exam.


• The McGraw-Hill ConnectPhysics site at http://connect.mcgraw-hill.com/connect/shortUrl.do?accessUrl=r_field_fall_2011_1 This is where you do the on-line homework. Please use your Gatorlink E-mail address when logging into McGraw-Hill ConnectPhysics.

PHY 2053 Textbook:

PHY 2053 Lecturers
Ivan Furic	Rick Field

PHY 2053 Lectures (TR 4 & 5):

• The lecture notes will be posted on the PHY2053 e-Learning WEBsite.
• The PHY 2053 class schedule shows the material covered in each lecture.
• Bonus points for 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).
• The in-class H-ITT questions begin counting on Tuesday August 30, but you should get your remotes sooner for practice questions that will help you to become familiar with the system before the questions start counting for bonus points.

PHY 2053 Discussion Sections and Quizzes:

• Discussion sections will start the first day of classes.
• They will emphasize problem solving.
• Quizzes will be given during many of your Wednesday or Thursday discussion section meetings (10 total quizzes). (starting on Wednesday and Thursday September 7-8, 2011)
• The quizzes will test how well you learned the concepts and methods of the previous weeks homework problems.
• The quiz will be very closely related to your homework problems. No Crib Sheets for the quizzes
• Your quizzes will be graded on a scale from 0.0 to 5.0 and will count 20% towards your overall course grade.
• 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 December 7.
• 10% of the quizzes will be dropped. The overall grade formula (PDF) shows how your overall quiz points are calculated.

PHY 2053 Student Response System - H-ITT Bonus Points:

• In-class student participation using the HITT student response system will be used in every lecture.
• You will be able to earn bonus points toward your overall course grade by coming to class and answering the H-ITT questions, however, participating in the H-ITT in class questions is purely optional. You can earn a perfect grade in the course (i.e. 100 points) without the H-ITT bonus points.
• In-class H-ITT questions begin to count on Tuesday August 30, 2011, 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 bonus points.
• 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 H-ITT transmitter, 20% of the H-ITT scores will be dropped in evaluating your bonus points.
• You can earn a maximum of 5 bonus points toward your overall course grade by answering the H-ITT questions. The overall grade formula (PDF) shows how the bonus points are calculated.

PHY 2053 Overall Course Grades:

Students with Disabilities:
The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then provide this documentation to the instructor (Field or Furic) when requesting accommodation. Then you must print out the PHY2053 Accommodated Test Request (ATR) Form for Fall 2011 (click here for the form). This form must be filled out by the student and returned to the Disability Reseource Center (DCR) at least one week before the first exam. The Accommodated Testing Service (ATS) at DCR will then administer all the exams.

How to Succeed in PHY2053:

• 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!