PHY 2048 Fall 2009
Physics I with Calculus
PHY 2048 "Coordinator" |
Rick Field |
The PHY 2048 coordinator is
responsible for the following:
- Maintain the three WEBsites
- The Overall Course Grades
- The WileyPLUS Homework
- The Homework Solutions
- Organize the Quizzes
- The Exams & Final
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PHY 2048 WEBsites:
There are three PHY2048 WEBsites that you will need to use.
- The Physics Department PHY2048 WEBsite at
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy2048/fall09/
This site contains the class announcements, the on-line homework problems, the course schedule,
exam room assignments, and the course syllabus.
- The University of Florida E-Learning PHY2048 WEBsite at
https://elearning.courses.ufl.edu/webct/logon/3822379268051
This site contains previous exams, exam solutions, and the course grades. Estimated course grades will be posted here after each of the three
exams and your final course grades will be posted here after the final exam.
- The WileyPLUS PHY2048Fall09 WEBsite at
http://edugen.wiley.com/edugen/class/cls119988/
This is where you do the on-line homework. The homework solutions will be posted here immediately after the assignment is due.
PHY 2048 Textbook:
- The textbook for the course is Fundamentals of Physics, 8th Edtion., by: Halliday,
Resnick, Walker, Wiley (2007). This is a relatively new edition of the book. Do NOT run out and
buy this book until you have read the syllabus (or it will cost you money)!
PHY 2048 Lecturers |
Guido Mueller |
Tarek Saab |
PHY 2048 Lectures (MWF 4 & 5):
- The lecture notes will be posted on the PHY2048 E-Learning WEBsite.
- The PHY 2048 class schedule shows the material covered in each lecture.
- Graded 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).
- In class HITT responses will begin to count towards your course grade
starting on on Monday August 31, 2009, 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 grade.
PHY 2048 Teaching Assistants |
Lex Kemper |
Chris Mueller |
Emre Sakarya |
Brad Welliver |
Sean Goldberg |
Tomoyuki Nakayama |
PHY 2048 Discussion Sections and Quizzes:
- Discussion sections will start the first day of classes.
- They will emphasize problem solving.
- Quizzes will be given during almost every discussion section (starting on Monday August 31, 2009.)
- The quizzes will test how well you learned the concepts and methods of the previous weeks
homework problems.
- The quiz will be closely related to ONE of the homework problems selected at random from the most
recently due homework set.
Your quizzes will be graded on a scale from 0.0 to 5.0 and will count 20% towards your
overall course grade.
No quizzes will be dropped, but you will be allowed to make-up missed quizzes (with a valid excuse).
| Quiz Schedule |
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Week | Date | Quiz Problem |
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2 | 8/31/09-9/2/09 | HW Set 1 |
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3 | 9/7/09-9/9/09 | No Quiz |
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4 | 9/14/09-9/16/09 | HW Set 3 |
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5 | 9/21/09-9/23/09 | HW Set 4 |
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6 | 9/28/09-9/30/09 | HW Set 5 |
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7 | 10/5/09-10/7/09 | HW Set 6 |
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8 | 10/12/09-10/14/09 | HW Set 7 |
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9 | 10/19/09-10/21/09 | HW Set 8 |
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11 | 10/26/09-10/28/09 | HW Set 9 |
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12 | 11/2/09-11/4/09 | HW Set 10 |
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13 | 11/9/09-11/11/09 | No Quiz |
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14 | 11/16/09-11/18/09 | HW Set 12 |
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15 | 11/23/09-11/25/09 | HW Set 13 |
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16 | 11/30/09-12/2/09 | No Quiz |
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17 | 12/7/09-12/9/09 | HW Set 14 |
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There will be no quiz on HW Set 2, HW Set 11, and HW Set 15. |
PHY 2048 Exams and Final:
- There will be three in-term exams and a cumulative final exam.
- These exams will not take place in your lecture hall in the physics building.
Room assignments for where you must go to take the exams will be announced during class
and posted on the course web page.
- Exams are multiple choice with your answers bubbled in on Scantron sheets.
- To each in-term exam you may bring a single hand written formula sheet on
8½ x 11 inch paper (both sides) and you should bring a calculator
(calculators may not be shared and may not have electronic communications capability), #2 pencils,
an eraser and your picture ID (preferably your UF-ID).
- Unless superseded by a valid excuse a missed exam will result in a zero. Valid excuses are
officially sanctioned UF events, medical excuses or family emergencies. Acceptable excuses will
require a coach's, doctor's or instructor sanctioned note with a verifiable contact phone number.
The documentation must be provided to your instructor within 2 weeks of the missed exam.
- A valid excuse will allow you to take the cumulative make-up exam to replace the zero on the missed exam.
There will be one cumulative make-up exam (covering material from all three exams) given on
Wednesday December 9, 2009. The grade on this make-up exam will replace the missed exam.
The three in-term exams and the final exam will be equally weighted and count for 60% of the overall course grade.
None of the exam grades will be dropped.
Practice exams will be uploaded to the Class Section Documents section of the WileyPLUS site and
also posted on the PHY2048 E-Learning WEBsite.
| Tentative Exam Schedule (not confirmed yet) |
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Date | Time | Exam | Material | Room Assignments* |
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Tuesday 9/29/09 | TBA | Exam 1 | Chapter 1-6 | TBA |
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Tuesday 10/27/09 | TBA | Exam 2 | Chapter 7-11 | TBA |
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Tuesday 12/8/09 | TBA | Exam 3 | Chapter 12-16 | TBA |
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Wednesday 12/9/09 | TBA | Make-Up | Chapter 1-16 | TBA |
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Saturday 12/12/09 | 8:00pm-10:00pm | Final Exam | Chapter 1-17 | TBA |
*Room assignments are based on the first letter of your last name.
PHY 2048 On-Line Graded Homework:
- On-line graded WileyPLUS homework is due by 11:00pm on the dates shown below starting on Friday August 28, 2009.
- To get onto the online homework system you will need to enter the access code that came with the
hardcopy textbook (option 1) or to have purchased the access code with the on-line text (option 2).
- To register go to WileyPLUS and
click "Register" and follow the instructions there. (See this short tutorial.)
To properly get credit for your efforts you must enter the following "Student Profile" information correctly:
- First Name: Your first name as it appears on the Registrars list for PHY2048.
- Last Name: Your last name (i.e. family name) as it appears on the Registrars list for PHY2048.
- E-mail: Your Gatorlink E-mail address (i.e. name@ufl.edu).
- Phone: Your phone number.
- Student ID: Your UF-ID number (8 digit, e.g. 12345678).
To provide a measure of forgiveness for illnesses and possible network problems, 10% of the on-line homework grades will be dropped
in evaluating your final grade.
The on-line homework portion of the course will count for 15% of the overall course grade.
| WileyPLUS On-Line Homework Schedule |
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Assignment | Due Date
(by 11:00pm) | Material |
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HW Set 1 | Friday August 28 | Chapters 1 & 2 |
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HW Set 2 | Friday September 4 | Chapters 2 & 3 |
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HW Set 3 | Friday September 11 | Chapters 4 |
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HW Set 4 | Friday September 18 | Chapters 5 |
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HW Set 5 | Friday September 25 | Chapter 6 |
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HW Set 6 | Friday October 2 | Chapter 7 & 8 |
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HW Set 7 | Friday October 9 | Chapter 8 & 9 |
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HW Set 8 | Friday October 16 | Chapter 10 |
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HW Set 9 | Friday October 23 | Chapter 11 |
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HW Set 10 | Friday October 30 | Chapter 12 |
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HW Set 11 | Friday November 6 | Chapter 13 |
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HW Set 12 | Friday November 13 | Chapter 14 |
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HW Set 13 | Friday November 20 | Chapter 14 & 15 |
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HW Set 14 | Friday December 4 | Chapter 15 & 16 |
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HW Set 15 | Wednesday December 9 | Chapter 17 |
PHY 2048 Student Response System - HITT Grade:
- In class student participation using the HITT student response system will be used in every lecture.
- In class HITT responses will begin to count towards your course grade starting on on Monday August 31, 2009, 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 grade.
- 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 HITT transmitter,
20% of the HITT problems will be dropped in evaluating your final grade.
Your HITT grade will count as 5% of your overall course grade.
PHY 2048 Overall Course Grades:
| Grading Procedure |
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Exam 1 | 15% |
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Exam 2 | 15% |
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Exam 3 | 15% |
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Final Exam | 15% |
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Quizzes | 20% |
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Homework* | 15% |
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HITT** | 5% |
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Total | 100% |
*10% will be dropped.
**20% will be dropped.
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| Grading Scale (fixed) |
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A | ≥ 85 |
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A- | ≥ 78 |
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B+ | ≥ 71 |
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B | ≥ 65 |
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B- | ≥ 58 |
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C+ | ≥ 51 |
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C | ≥ 45 |
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C- | ≥ 42 |
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D+ | ≥ 38 |
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D | ≥ 35 |
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D- | ≥ 30 |
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E | < 30 |
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- A formula for estimating your overall course grade is here.
PHY2048 E-Learning WEBsite:
- The lectures notes, quiz grades, homework grades,
and estimated course grades will be posted on the
PHY2048 E-Learning WEBsite.
How to Succeed in PHY2048:
- 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!
Rick Field - August 22, 2009