Physics
122 will have
three sections with different lecture periods: MWF 8:30-9:25 (section
1), 10:40-11:35 (section 2), and 11:45-12:40 (section 3). The
room will accommodate only a certain number of students, and we cannot
register any more into a filled section.
Your clicker will
only work in the section in which you are registered.
The workshop instructors are:
Prof. Roderich
Engelmann, Physics D106, 632-8087. Roderich.Engelmann (at) stonybrook.edu
Prof. Peter Stephens, Physics B134, 632-8156. Peter.Stephens (at)
stonybrook.edu
Prof. Philip Allen, Physics B146, 632-8179. Philip.Allen (at)
stonybrook.edu
Of course, for the actual email addresses, substitute @
for (at).
Each of the
instructors will give all of the lectures for one third of the
semester.
The labs are being
managed by
Prof. Matthew Dawber, Physics B105, 632-4978. Matthew.Dawber (at) stonybrook.edu
Most of the course
administration will be done via Blackboard. Please make sure
that you have access to your Stony Brook Blackboard account, that this
course is listed therein (by the week before classes start), and that
the email address listed in your Blackboard account is one
that you monitor. You have to register your
"clicker" via Blackboard; see below.
The prerequisites are a C- or better in PHY 121/123. Additionally, to do well in the course, you should be familiar with elementary algebra, at the same level we used it in PHY 121.
Your first assignment
Ch15_1 is due Wednesday, January 28, 2 hours after
your class ends.
Your first class for credit with “clicker” is
Wednesday, January 28.
There are no labs in
the first week of classes. Your first lab is the week of
February 2-5.
The lab is mandatory. There are ten lab sessions.
You must
register for a lab in Physics 124. Your grade for the
"lecture"
part of the course and for the lab will be the same. All ten
lab
grades count; if you skip one, your grade will suffer. There
will
be several make-up lab times scheduled through the semester, when you
can make up the lab that you have missed. No excuse is
required
to do a makeup lab, but you can only make up one lab in each of the
makeup sessions. If you miss more than one lab in a given
makeup
period, speak with professor Dawber.
There is a rigorous cap of 30 students in each lab which will not be
exceeded. If you cannot get the lab you want, we suggest that
you register for an open lab and hope to rearrange with a section
switch once classes start. But you must attend the lab for
which you are registered until you have made such a switch.
The
workshop (meets during the so-called lecture time) will be an
interactive REVIEW of the material that you have studied from the CD.
Interactive in the sense
that every student has a response pad (commonly called a "clicker",
although they do not click) to answer quizzes that will be posed during
the workshop. Your workshop clicker score is 10%
of your grade.
The
bookstore sells clickers. Whether you buy one new, reuse one
from a previous semester, or find one that fell off a truck, you need
to register it through Blackboard. See the explanation
“Registering CPS in
Blackboard”. The
first generation clickers will work just fine, although there is a
second generation which is slightly more convenient because you don't
have to "join" the session at the beginning of the workshop.
There have been complaints about the reliability of clickers
that have been in use for several semesters. Your clicker will only
work in the lecture section for which you are registered.
The
course CD contains all of the lectures, which you will watch at your
convenience, as many times as you want, as well as the class quizzes
(homework), practice exams, and a wealth of other material. For
Instructions to purchase it go to the EDUSOFD
web page.
Lectures will be available free of charge on the web for the
first 2 weeks, to allow everybody plenty of time to obtain the course
CD.
There are quizzes
before every class meeting, starting Friday September 5. OK -
they are actually due 2 hours after the end of each class, but it would
be foolish to wait until then to do them. The quizzes are on
your course CD, but to submit solutions for credit, you have to log in
via Blackboard to an on-campus server running Maple TA software.
You come to the workshop
prepared because you have viewed the lecture on the CD and completed
the quiz on the CD and Blackboard. The workshop will be used
to review material, and for quizzes based on eInstruction
response pads ("clickers", although they don't actually
click). Your class participation using the response pads
counts for a total of 10% of your grade. You are responsible
for having a functioning response pad. If you have trouble
with your clicker in the workshop, see the lecturer immediately
afterward, and, if justified, he will exempt you
from the workshop just past. Such exemptions are only granted
immediately after the workshop. The signal from your clicker
will only be received in the section for which you are registered, so
you must attend that one in order to receive credit for participation.
During the
workshop, when you are working on one of the quizzes, you may discuss
the problem quietly with your immediate neighbors. This is intended to
help you understand the problem and solve it. "The answer is
C" is not the kind of discussion intended here -- you deprive yourself
of the opportunity to learn and prepare yourself for the exams.
One person operating two clickers is clear academic
dishonesty, and will result in a course grade of F for the
owners of both clickers. Really.
Bring a calculator
to the workshop. It should be able to do trig functions,
square root, log, exponential notation. You will
also need it for the exams. Your calculator is an important
tool for the course, and you should be familiar with it.
There are no recitations.
To help you with
questions related to your homework problems and the laboratory, the Help
Room, Physics A131, will be staffed by personnel from this
course for approximately thirty hours per week. The schedule
will be posted on the help room and on Blackboard within the first week
of classes. You can also reach your instructors by email; put
Physics 123 as the subject line of your message to get their
attention. The help rooms (A129 and A131) are supposed to be
staffed by Physics Department faculty and teaching assistants
essentially all day, and
there will probably be people there who can help you with physics
problems, even if they are not associated with this specific course.
Laboratories are administered
by the registrar as a separate course, Phys 124. But you have
to register for the course and the lab together, and you will receive
the same letter grade for the course and the lab. Labs start
in the week of February 2. If you miss a lab, you will
receive a score of zero. Makeup labs (no penalty) will be
scheduled in several weeks during the semester. Note that
only the immediately preceding labs can be made up, and you can only
make up labs that you missed. If you cannot meet this
schedule due to exceptional circumstances (such as documented illness
or death in the immediate family), discuss with the instructor.
Follow this link
to web pages with the lab writeups etc.
Two Midterm exams
are scheduled at 8:30 PM on March 2 and March 30 The final
exam is May 15, 2:00-4:30 PM. You have to make sure
there are no conflicts in your schedule – we cannot grant a
makeup exam for any foreseeable circumstances. The
registrar's policy that students have responsibility for avoiding exam
conflicts is crystal clear,
and exceptions will not be granted in this course. If you
cannot take a midterm due to exceptional circumstances (documented
illness or death in the immediate family), discuss with the instructor
as soon as possible. We will increase the weights of the
other parts of the course accordingly. If you miss the final
with a valid excuse, you will receive an Incomplete in the course and a
makeup final will be scheduled as promptly as possible after the end of the semester.
The exams will be multiple choice,
graded via scan-tron
sheets (fill in the bubble with a #2 pencil).
Your final
grade will be based on the following.
15% Pre-workshop quizzes (which are
basically homework assignments).
10% Workshop "clicker" score
15% Each of two midterms
25% Labs
20% Final Exam
There are no extra credit or other
special supplementary assignments available. Your course
grade is based on the same exams, workshop, homework, and labs as
everybody else. Please do not embarass yourself by coming to
the instructors at the end of the semester and saying that you need to
receive a particular grade higher than the one you earned.
You will have plenty of feedback about your perfomance as the course
proceeds.
DISABILITY SUPPORT
SERVICES (DSS) STATEMENT If
you have a physical, psychological, medical, or learning disability
that may impact your course work, please contact Disability Support
Services (631) 632-6748 or http://studentaffairs.stonybrook.edu/dss/.
They will determine with you what accommodations are necessary and
appropriate. All information and documentation is
confidential. Students who require assistance during emergency
evacuation are encouraged to discuss their needs with their professors
and Disability Support Services. For
procedures and information go to the following website:
http://www.stonybrook.edu/ehs/fire/disabilities/asp.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
STATEMENT. Each student must
pursue his or her academic goals honestly and be personally accountable
for all submitted work. Representing another person's work as your own
is always wrong. Faculty are
required to report any suspected instance of academic dishonesty to the
Academic Judiciary. For more comprehensive information on academic
integrity, including categories of academic dishonesty, please refer to
the academic judiciary website at http://www.stonybrook.edu/uaa/academicjudiciary/
CRITICAL INCIDENT
MANAGEMENT Stony Brook University expects students to respect the
rights, privileges, and property of other people. Faculty are required
to report to the Office of Judicial Affairs any disruptive behavior
that interrupts their ability to teach, compromises the safety of the
learning environment, and/or inhibits students' ability to learn.
GOOD LUCK!