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Phy 121
Your 'question form' report has been received. Scroll down through the document to see any comments I might have inserted, and my final comment at the end.
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Busy at work, again
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I got your feedback that I don't need to turn in introduction items that I did in PHY 121. I wasn't sure the first day I started. So, I did a few. I'll review all of it to make sure I don't miss anything. The equipment I've been installing was being started up and debug this week. I had another engineer with me and we talked alot about physics on the side and related to the job. This particular project was about winding 500 pounds of flat foam in to a roll. This requires holding constant even tension on the sheet foam during winding. It also requires constant tension when these rolls cutover from one to the other.Lots of speed and torque calculations and PID controls.
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Very interesting project. My engineering students (in the calculus-based physics course) are in their Materials course and will find this application interesting.
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While the job is actually fun and interesting, the bad news is I've been up at 4:30am and not home until 8pm. The good news is I didn't have to work this weekend! All that said I've become a 'weekend only' physics student this week. Through out this term there will be many other times where I'm a 'weekend physics student'.
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Last term in PHY 121 when I had little available time and was getting behind in class, you gave me some good advice that got me through the material. You said at minimum I need to 1. do the labs 2. know the introductory problem sets 3. do assignment level quizzes. As this term looks like my available time will be equal to or less than last term, would it be appropriate to follow that same guide line if I need to? Thanks.
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The same strategy you used last semester should work equally well this semester.
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