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Physics 296 |
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Department
of Physics |
Spring 2005 |
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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 why. |
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