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Announcements:

December 16, 2009

The final exam had an average of 6.86 and a standard deviation of 2.72. The master copy of the exam ican be found by clicking here. The first answer is the correct answer.

I didn't think that the exam was that hard. It did not ask for anything that you didn't know or hadn't answered in past correctly. So the very low final score was a surprise. We have two promises to keep. As it says in the syllabus: Half of the class will get a B or better and 15% will have an A. We are well on our way towards meeting these promises.

The other scores including the clicker and the discussion section scores will be avilable soon on e-learning.

December 10, 2009

The final exam is on Saturday December 12, 2009 at 8PM. See below for the room to go to for the exam. You are welcome to bring a calculator, a few sharpened #2 pencils (and erasor) and two formula sheets. You are also expected to bring your UF ID. Good luck.

November 24, 2009

Makeup exam: If you had to miss a midterm and we have discussed the possibility of you taking a makeup, there will be a cumulative makeup exam on December 7 at 4PM. The exam will be similar to the fnal exam in terms of the material covered, i.e. upto and including Chapter 25.

Please send me an email note with the subject heading "cumulative makeup" to ensure your participation.

Final exam:: The final exam will be held on December 12, 2009 between 8:00PM- 10:00PM. We have been assigned four rooms for the final. Please make a note of the room you are asked to come to for the final

Pugh 170        A - F
Little 101        G-K.
Little 109        L-O
CSE A101      P-Z

November 5, 2009

The entire exam 2 is posted here. Many problems are written for three copies each with
slightly different numbers. The correct answer for each problem is the first answer listed there.
Soon we will post the solutions to exam 2.

Your exam scores are posted on e-learning. The class average was still quite respectable 9.78
and a standard deviation of 2.67.

November 3, 2009

In the sample practice exams, the first answer is the correct answer. There is an exception:

Problem 4 in exam 2 from Fall 07, the correct answer should be IBL². Please make the change.

October 27, 2009

Among possible reviews before exam II, there will be Tea and Cookies on Wednesday at 5 PM in NPB 2165.
Professor Takano will have extra office hours this week, Wednesday (Oct. 28) and Friday (Oct. 30), both during the 6th period (12:50 pm - 1:40 pm). I will have no office hours next week.

October 20, 2009

The power point slides for chapter 20 are now posted. You can either follow the link from
"Miscellaneous Lecture Notes" or directly by clicking here.
The second midterm exam has been scheduled for Wednesday, November 4, beginning at
8:20PM. It will cover Ch. 18.3-22, with the exceptions as noted in the link "Schedule and
Assigned Reading". You will find that the room assignments are the same as they were for
Exam I. Please come to the room that is assigned to you by the first letter of your last name.

Room            Seats           last name letters       number
TUR L007        299             A-G                        135
CLB C130        297             H-O                        132
WEIM1064      286           P-Z                         130

Note some corrections to the book:
In the first sentence of the third paragraph of page 676, the word
"induction" should be "magnetization".

In the first sentence in the next paragraph on the same page, the words
"and motors" should be deleted, to avoid confusing the students. There are
indeed some motors that rely on induction, called induction motors, but
the only motors described in the book are those that rely on a torque
on a loop through which current fed from outside flows.
October 15, 2009

The exam sheets (from Exam I) are available in room NPB 1100 on the shelves to the left. Help yourself.

October 14, 2009

Professor Mitselmakhker's office hours on October 15 and October 22 will be taken by Professor Kumar in room NPB2160.

October 8 ,2009

Exam I scores are now posted on e-learning. The class average was a steaming 11.4/15. The standard deviation was 2.49. Some of you might still not find your scores.
This is because e-learning keeps records by your gatorlink username. I get your gatorlink username by stripping off @ufl.edu from your email ddress. If your email address is different from gatorlink (.....@ufl.edu) I did not have yoru gatorlink username and your scores had to be entered by hand. In several cases, but perhaps not all, the scores have been so entered. If you are still missing your scores, let me know.
Finally, several clickers are still not registered. They should be ASAP, or else....

October 5, 2009

The exam score posting is turning out to be more time consuming than we had anticipated. There is good news here and there is bad news too. The bad news is the time it has already taken and may yet take. The good news is that once it is setup, it will be a breeze in future to post the scores and grades. Stay tuned.

September 30, 2009

The master exam, which contains the correct answer as the first answer, can be seen by clicking here. In problem 13, which calculates the ratio of Cp/Cs, with the capacitances 2, 3 and 5 \micro F, we have accepted two answers, 9.3 and 11.0 as correct since they were too close to each other. The correct answer is 10.3.

September 20, 2009

The first midterm is scheduled for Wednesday, Septemenber 30 at 8:20PM. Your assigned room for the exam is according to the first letter of your last name. Please follow the assignment.
Room            Seats           last name letters       number
TUR L007        299             A-G                        135
CLB C130        297             H-O                        132
WEIM1064      286           P-Z                         130

The exam will cover Chs. 15-18.3. There will be several opportunitites to review the material. The earliest is perhaps the Tea & Cookies on Wednesday Sept. 23 at 5:10 PM in room 2165. The latest may be in class on Tuesday September 29. There will be no T&C session on the exam day.

We have asked all discussion leaders to be available to all students in their respective office hours.

If you have any questions, contact Profesor Kumar.

September 13, 2009

Please sign up with Professor Kumar (by sending an email to phy2054) if you have a conflict with exam I on Septemeber 30.

Starting after September 8, the clicker scores are being emailed once a week and are being counted. If you have not received an email yet, please make sure that your clicker is properly registered. There are still about a dozen students in each of the lecture sections whose clickers are being recorded but who have not yet registered their clickers.
September 10, 2009

Professor Takano will hold extra office hours during period 4 today (9/10/09) and on Tuesday September 22 (period 5). He will be away from his office on Tuesday 9/15 and Thursday 9/17.

HITT scores are bieng counted starting Tuesday 9/8/09. From now on, we will notify you of your HITT scores on a weekly basis. Stay tuned.

September 2, 2009

The practice run for the HITT system ends at the end of this week. It will be counted starting with
the lecture on Tuesday September 8, 2009. You will get another email tomorrow reporting on your HITT scores. After that the
scores will be reported weekly.

Tea and Cookies today at 5:10 PM in NPB 2165.

August 27, 2009

The HITT results have been sent today by email to all students who have registered their remotes. If you have not received an email today, please register your remote.

August 25, 2009

3. TEXTBOOK -- Make sure that you have the right book from the bookstore. It is the eighth edition of the well known "College Physics" Volume 2 by Serway and Vuille.

2. EMAIL -- When sending email, always send it to our regular email addresses:

phy2054@phys.ufl.edu

NEVER SEND US EMAIL THROUGH WEBCT-VISTA-e-learning (even if you receive email messages through WEBCT) - it has been and will be lost!

1: POLICIES

-- Discussion sections: You have to attend the discussion section for which you are registered.

-- Clickers: You will need to register your HITT remote (clicker) for the lecture class that you will attend, either period 2 or 3

Instructions on how to register are given here . There will be periodic emails (more frequent in the beginning but weekly as the semester proceeds) informing you of your clicker quiz performance. If you do not receive the email, please check that your clicker is registered. If the problem persists, contact us.

--Your class-quiz grades will only be recorded in the period for which your remote is registered. Do not switch classes after you have registered your remote!.