PHY 2054 "Coordinator"
Rick Field	The PHY 2054 coordinator is responsible for the following: Maintaining the three WEBsites Maintaining the grades The Estimated and Overall Course Grades The McGrawHillConnect On-Line Homework Organize the Quizzes The Exams, Final Exam, and Make-Up Exam (with input from Guenakh Mitselmakher)

PHY 2054 WEBsites:
There are three PHY2054 WEBsites that you will need to use.

• The Physics Department PHY2054 WEBsite at http://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy2054/spring16/ This site contains the class announcements, office hours, the homework problems, the course schedule, exam room assignments, the course syllabus, previous exams, and the correct answers for your exams (after you have taken the exam). You should check the class announcements on a regular basis.


• The University of Florida Sakai e-Learning PHY2054 WEBsite at https://lss.at.ufl.edu/ or https://elearning2.courses.ufl.edu/portal/site/UFL-PHY2054-83711-12016. This site contains 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. It also containes and the class lectures.


• The McGrawHillConnect site at https://connect.mheducation.com/class/r-field-spring-2016. This is where you do the assigned on-line homework.

PHY 2054 Textbook:

PHY 2054 Lecturers
Guenakh Mitselmakher	Rick Field

PHY 2054 Lectures (TR 4 & 5):

• The lecture notes will be posted on the Sakai PHY2054 e-Learning WEBsite.
• The PHY 2054 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 January 12, 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 2054 Discussion Sections and Quizzes:

• Discussion sections will start the first day of classes and meet twice per week.
• They will emphasize problem solving.
• Quizzes will be given during many of your discussion section meetings (10 total quizzes) starting January 20-21, 2016.
• The quizzes will test how well you learned the concepts and methods of the previous weeks McGrawHillConnect on-line homework problems.
• The quiz will be very closely related to your on-line 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 15% 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 April 22, 2016.
• 10% of the quizzes will be dropped. The overall grade formula (PDF) shows how your quiz grade is calculated.

PHY 2054 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 January 12, 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 2054 Overall Course Grades:

Normalization of the Quiz Scores:
At the end of the semester we will compute the overall average quiz score for each of the PHY2054 TA's. We will make no change to the quiz grades for those students in the classes of the TA with the highest average. We will add "bonus" quiz points to all the other students in such a way as to make all the averages the same as the TA with the highest average. However, if doing so gives you more than 15 points for your overall quiz grade, then you will only get the full 15 points.

Normalization of the Quiz times Homework Scores:
At the end of the semester after the quiz grades are normalized we will recalculate the Quiz times Homework scores. However, if doing so gives you more than 10 points for your overall QxHW grade, then you will only get the full 10 points.

Students with Disabilities:
Students requesting special accomodations on the in-term exams and the final exam must follow the instructions at UF DSO. Students must initiate an accommodated testing request (ATR) for each exam to be scheduled at the DRC (i.e. Exam 1, Exam 2, Final Exam). The PHY2054 instructors will review the request via E-mail and either accept or decline the request as submitted. The ATR must be completed at least four (4) business days before the scheduled exam date. The Accommodated Testing Service (ATS) at DRC will then administer the exam.

How to Succeed in PHY2054:

• 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 (practice) 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!