Chapter 4 mini-quiz extended!

Whoops, I forgot to make the chapter 4 mini-quiz visible!! Our TA, Ashton Dacus, just now alerted me. So I have made it "visible" to you all and extended the deadline to Monday evening.

GO FOR IT!

BONUS POINTS for chapter 2 mini-quiz

I decided to give 1 bonus point to everyone who worked on the chapter 2 mini-quiz by the deadline, Friday night. You can see it in your My Grades page.

To encourage you to work expeditiously and efficiently on each chapter, I will award one bonus point each week to the students who work on the chapter mini-quiz by the deadline. This does not penalize anyone if they cannot make the deadline, but it will reward those who study as we go.

Given the point levels in our grade scale, this could be VERY helpful by the end of the semester.

Three new discussion areas

There are three new discussion areas for you to use in order to interact with Dr. B and Ashton, our TA.

1. Chapter 2, Describing Motion: exercises and questions discussion
2. Discussion for questions and tips on Chapter 3, Explaining Motion
3. Tardy Gulf Stream questions (for latecomers to the course).

The more you can interact with Dr. B and Ashton, the more you will learn. Everybody is different, and not everyone will like discussions, but many will, and if you like discussion posting, GO FOR IT!!

Concept Guide 1 is now available

BEGINNING OF MAJOR WORK
Here is the beginning of our major physics study for the semester, "Concept guide 1: Galileo and the laws of motion," which lays out a ton of different study tasks. [Snapshot of one portion, left]

Consider this your independent study guide to prepare for midterm 1.

All of our other study activities relate back to this concept guide. It is the nucleus of everything for the first part of the semester. Mini-quizzes, discussions, podcasts and any other study tool I introduce will be related to tis concept guide.

So concentrate on this page above all else.

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From time to time, Ashton Dacus (our TA) and I will set up new study tools. As soon as we set them up, we will announce them here in this Blogspot. So keep your eyeballs here every day!! Do some studying every week and do not get behind. This Blogspot will help you stay on pace and not get behind.

First big learning module this weekend or so

Now that Add/Drop is over, we can get down to brass tacks. Our first big learning module, for chapters 2-6, with organized concept guide, vocabulary lists and so forth will be released this weekend, maybe Monday morning first thing.

You have a teeny sample of the study materials now, in the Ch. 2 Mini-quiz, so you can skim and look over ch. 2 this weekend and try out the mini-quiz. Monday (if not sooner) you will have the BULK of the learning tools.

Gulf stream questions are graded now, too.

OK, I just went in and graded up the last dozen or so postings, so now all the Fist Week To-Do List tasks are graded.

If you posted a scientific question there related to the Hopkin reading, you got one bonus point. Everyone else loses out.