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Physics 273 |
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Department
of Physics |
Fall 2010 |
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Homework Procedures |
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Collection
Homework problems are due on the day announced in class WITH NO EXCEPTIONS,
EXTENSIONS OR DELAYS. You will turn in your solutions at the beginning
of the period and, at that time, you will be handed solution sheets. Collation
Your name on a piece of your work is a guarantee that it is the best you can
do as a professional. Homework problems must be turned in on standard
8.5" x 11" sheets, white or yellow paper with or without rulings
with or without punched holes. Do not use the backs of old exams, scrap
computer paper, pages ripped out of old notebooks or brown paper bags.
You may write on both sides if you wish to save paper, but one-sided sheets
look neater. Use a pencil preferably to a pen because you may have to
erase errors. Problems must be clearly marked and separated from each other.
Pages must be numbered consecutively and stapled at the top left
corner. Loose sheets will not be accepted. Collaboration
The assigned homework problems should take considerable time to solve,
especially as the course progresses. Do not be surprised or alarmed if
you spend one or more hours just on one problem filling numerous sheets of
scrap paper with your attempts at a solution. This is par for the
course. Although it is desirable that you solve all problems by yourselves,
this is not always practical in this course. Collaboration with your
fellow students is allowed and encouraged as a means of correcting possible
flaws in one's thinking, as an aid to get one started and as a way of keep
one going when one becomes stuck half way through a solution. Limit
your collaboration to general procedures about how to "set up" a
problem outlining rather than exactly specifying the solution. The
course instructor will also be available within and outside his office hours
to help students with homework questions. Remember: The final
piece of work that you hand in must be your own, it must bear your personal
stamp of thinking processes and you must understand completely what you have
done, how you did it and why. |
Grading
Each
problem will receive a maximum of 4 points.
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Points |
Criteria |
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0 |
The
problem is not attempted; the attempted solution or strategy is irrelevant. |
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1 |
The attempted
solution or strategy is unclear or unjustified; some relevant work is shown;
most parts in a multipart problem are missing. |
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2 |
The
solution is carried out about half way; there are serious flaws in
mathematical development or reasoning; about half the parts in a multipart
problem are missing. |
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3 |
There
are significant omissions and errors that prevent completion of the solution;
one or more parts in a multipart problem are missing. |
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4 |
The solution
is completely correct or mostly correct with perhaps one or two obviously
insignificant errors, e.g. silly algebraic mistakes, forgetting to transfer a
constant from one page to the other, etc. |
Slacker
Coupons You will receive three and only three slacker coupons. Each coupon entitles you to turn in your homework late, but no later than 1:55 am on the next meeting day after it was due. No homework will be accepted past that time, no matter how many coupons you have. Attach slacker coupons to late homework to avoid getting a zero. Slacker coupons will not be accepted for the first and last homework sets; these two must be turned in on time. Redeem unused slacker coupons for extra credit at the end of the semester. To your total homework score, I will add 2n % of that total where n = number of redeemed coupons (n > 0). |