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II. Weekly SETS/INFO (numbering
same as Weeks in the semester)
Any SET to be submitted (SET #00
excepted) must follow the
BASIC
GUIDELINES & FORMAT, .....
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A. SET #00 (All SETS
worth 40 points)
15 pts:
8% |
At the beginning of the 2nd lecture, return
to
me
75%
your Student Info Sheet, completed properly
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Only 3 grades possible:
15 pts, 10 pts, 0 pts. |
12% |
25
pts:
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By the
beginning of the 2nd week, send from the e-mail
address you generally use a post to me, chen@towson.edu.
IF you do NOT regularly use your TU
account, you MUST, on principle, have TU mail forwarded to your other
account.
Also, I will regularly send posts to the whole class
using the TU accounts.
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the subject line MUST
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243.[your
section number] [SPACE] #00 [SPACE] [LAST NAME] , [space] [first/nick name]
E.g., 243.001 #00 CHEN, henry |
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the body is non-empty and contains:
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a. any questions
and/or comments regarding,
"General
Course Information,"
which you will have read reasonably carefully. OR
b. something like "no comment/questions." |
N.B. In the future, when you e-mail me, you must
start the subject line with 243.[your section #]
[SPACE] w/ NO #00 .
Otherwise, it will not reach the proper file and may not be read. |
IF you have trouble accessing
your free TU e-mail account:
| Go to the OTS (Office
of Technology Services) Help Center in Cook Library, Room 35. |
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Lab #00 |
SUBMIT in your 1st Lab
period at the beginning
of the lab period, |
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your two Lab Notebooks prepared according to
the
directions given you. |
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Start from or first state the basic principles.
For most exercises, the
mode of reasoning and your expressions of it are more important than any
final (numerical) answer. (A "correct" numerical answer attained
by incorrect or incomplete reasoning is worth almost no credit). |
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Always start with an appropriate diagram, sketch,
or stick drawing of the situation.
What is "appropriate"
depends on the subject matter and will be clear from the context of the
lectures and the text. Always indicate clearly any coordinate
system, the symbols you use, and what quantities are already given.
Do not
use as a guide any Student Solutions Manual . . . these solutions are
often very terse (to save space), and often have no sketches. |
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First show relationships; then substitute magnitudes
and show computations.
Toward the end semester, you need not show computations
as long as the algebraic relationships are clear. |
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Use a few more words of explanation or give a
bit more detail if in doubt.
I will tell
you if I think you are unnecessarily thorough or wordy. |
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"Chain" computations and round to THREE (3) significant digits only
at the very end:
Start with more than 3 sig digs
if possible; learn to "chain calculations" or store intermediate results
in the calculator's memory (avoid re-entering rounded numbers); round to
THREE SF at the very end.
Use the constants on your "Fact
Sheet" (Ur often gives only 2 or 3 SF). |
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6.
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Always use "modified scientific notation"
Always use
scientific notation with the appropriate prefixes:
e.g. for light
693 nm (nanometers) rather than
6.93 x 10-7 m
for nuclei 10.5 fm (femtometers)
rather than 1.05 x 10-14 m
See an appendix
to the laboratory MANUAL for more examples. |
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