Physics 1011 Assignments and Reading
The assignments due are available online at the PhysicsPlace website. Generally, there are tutorials to help you understand the reading assignments for the day, and very simple questions to answer about the day's reading. Also, once per week there will be a quiz with more complicated questions about the previous week's stuff.
If you do all the assignments, the tests will be easy, because you learned the stuff as you went along rather than trying to cram it all in right before the test. There are researchers who spend their careers trying to figure out what way to do things helps students learn the most, and this “Just in Time” learning is really supposed to help.
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Assignment |
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Oct 05 |
Read Ch.1.1 |
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Oct 07 |
Read Ch.1.2-8 |
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Oct 12 |
Online assignments for Ch.1 due (all but the Quantitative section) Read Ch.5.5-6, Ch7.4 Online assignments from Ch.5, 7 due: 5: T/F (#7,8), Review Questions (#8,9,13) 7: T/F (#3,5,6), Review Questions (#3,4,5,10,13) Presentation topic choice due |
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Oct 14 |
Read some background stuff from Tuesday's class: Ch.2.1-6, Ch.5.1-2, Ch.6.1-6 New reading: Ch.9.1-6 Online assignments from Ch.9 due: T/F (#1-4, 9-11), Review Questions (#1,8,9,12,13,17,18,20) |
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Oct 19 |
Read 9.9, 8.2, Online assignment from Ch.8: T/F (#2,3,6), Review Questions (#2,3,11,12), Problem Solving #3 |
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Oct 21 |
No new reading, catching up and reviewing. |
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Oct 26 |
Test #1 |
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Oct 28 |
Ch.10.1-3 saving the homework problems to do all at once next week due to the lame way the website operates. |
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Nov 02 |
Ch.10.4-8 Online assignment for Ch.10 due: all T/F, Review Questions |
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Nov 04 |
No new reading, talking about Special Relativity some more |
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Nov 09 |
Ch.11.1-4 |
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Nov 11 |
Ch.11.4-7 Ch.11's online stuff: all T/F, Review, and Problem Solving |
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Nov 16 |
Chris' Time presentation Maggie's Cosmology/Parallel Universes |
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Nov 18 |
Ch.12.1-5 |
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Nov 23 |
Ch.12.6 Ch.12's online stuff: all T/F and Review questions Ch.13.1-2 |
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Nov 25 |
Ch.13.2-6 Ch.13's online stuff: all T/F and Review questions |
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Nov 30 |
Test #2 |
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Dec 02 |
Ch.14 Ch.14's online stuff: all T/F and Review questions |
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Dec 07 |
Meghan's Waste Management Ryan's Alternative Energies Ch.15 Ch.15's online stuff: all T/F and Review questions |
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Dec 09 |
Jered's Beam Physics Ch.17 Ch.17's online stuff: all T/F and Review questions |
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Dec 14 |
Justin's SAE car project Particle Physics at UMD, neutrinos etc. |
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Dec 16 |
Final |