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Physics
274 |
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Department
of Physics |
Spring
2010 |
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Homework
Procedures |
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Preparation and Presentation Students will prepare and
present the homework problems during the class time before the
collection date. Presentation
days will be announced in advance but will not follow a regular
schedule. On
preparation-presentation days all students are expected to be familiar
with the problems and to have at least an outlined solution. For each problem, two or
three students will be randomly selected for the presentation. The students' performance
will be graded and count towards their in-class portion of their final
grade. Absent
students who are called to present will receive a grade of zero for the
day's in-class performance. 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. You
will have adequate notice before homework is due.
When notice is given, the material in the homework
will have already been covered in lecture. 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
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