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PHYS-1111
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• College Physics I Mechanics and Fluids

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Textbooks
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• Cutnell Johnson - 6th Edition
• Study guide available (not required)
• Lab text McDermott (1st edition)
• Reading assignments are on calendar
• Read Slooooooow!!

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Lectures
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• Attendance is strongly encouraged
• Audience participation
• Pre-tests
• Demos are sometimes life-threatening

Eventually, Billy came to dread his fathers
lectures over all other forms of punishment.
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What is a tutorial?
Socraticdialogue
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small groups
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guided inquiry(structured activities)
based on research
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Homework comes in two flavors
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• Tutorial homework
• conceptual (like the tutorial)
• key to success on exams

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Homework comes in two flavors
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• Tutorial homework
• Daily homework (handed out or from text)
• some use of equations
• due at the beginning of next class
• submitted on recipe cards
• collected randomly
• you may miss four (4) - no charge
• you may turn two (2) assignments in late

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HOMEWORK
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• Read Chapter 1
• Questions 1 3 and Problem 2

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Exams
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• Three (3) one-hour exams
• Explain your reasoning...

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Exams
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• Three (3) one-hour exams
• Explain your reasoning...

• Final exam is cumulative

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Grade
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• Three exam scores 45
• Final exam score 20
• Tutorial hw scores 20
• Lecture hw scores 15
• Total 100

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Remaining Issues
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• academic honesty
• absences
• lateness
• talking
• getting help

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Force Concept Inventory (Hestenes, et al)
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FCI question 18

• An elevator is being lifted up an elevator shaft
  by a steel cable. When the elevator is moving up
  the shaft at a constant velocity
• A) the upward force on the elevator by the cable
  is greater than the downward force of gravity.
• B) the amount of upward force on the elevator by
  the cable is equal to the downward force of
  gravity.
• C) other distractors...

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80 60 40 20
FCI Scores
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Fall 94N 27
Fall 95N 47
Fall 96N 48
Pre-Test
39
34
31
Post-Test
62
69
72
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Math Test
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• Do not panic, this is only a test!

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Trig review (right triangle)
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a 2a
26o
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Problem 1 (of only two)
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cozy
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Problem 2 (of only two)
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tan q 3/4
q tan-1(3/4)