understanding first assignments

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06-02-2006_____Initial_QA_Typewriter_Graphing_Physics

06-02-2006_____Initial_Pbs_Communication

06-02-2006_____Lab_Reordering

06-02-2006_____Rates

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Welcome

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process of finding access page<

prelim assts completed, anything missing?

I completed the prior Orientation forms but they do not show on my Access page. (I did not have my access code at the time of submission 5/25/06, so maybe that is the reason?).

any notes on documentation/self critique

copy of due dates or details of process

Week 01: Week of 05/30/06 - 06/04/06. Assignments 0, 1 and associated class notes

>copy of asst 1

• Watch the video of the Honda add at http://www.videoclipstream.com/akamai/h-l/honda/ or http://www.ebaumsworld.com/honda-ad.html. The animations are fairly small and not particularly clear in some of the details but either one shows almost everything. If you have RealPlayer there are other links with larger and clearer pictures. You can also search the Web under Honda Cog Commercial for better or alternative links. Everything that happens there is physics and as this course progresses you will develop an understanding of the principles and laws that govern this system. Preferably read the background first (link below), which takes a few minutes but is worth it. If you want to read about the process (this stuff all really happened and it took a team of engineers over 600 takes until it all worked) click on Honda commercial background.htm .

• See Class Notes #01-#03. Class notes start on CD #2 and are run by running the disk_2 html file in the root folder of the CD. Then run the program q_a_class_notes..., which will ask you the questions posed in the Class Notes Questions and give you feedback on your answers. Send the resulting SEND file in the usual manner.

• Distance Students: Complete q_a_area_volumes_misc.exe asst 1 on Areas and submit SEND files at the end the day. This program should have been downloaded from Supervised Study Current Semester > Course Documents > Downloads (the program is directly under Downloads; don't click on Physics I).

• View Physics Video Clips 01-03 on the Gen1 CD (note that the root folder of that CD is pretty cluttered; the file you are looking for is entitled disk_1.htm, which might simply show up as disk_1; when the file appears in your browser click on the Physics Video Clips link). Then run the program q_a_video_clips ..., which will ask you the questions posed on the disk_1 file and give you feedback on your answers. Send the resulting SEND file in the usual manner.

• Introductory Problem Sets, Set 1, #'s 1-7

• Solve each problem in this set before you look at the solution. Keep practicing until you can completely solve the problems, which change every 5 minutes, without consulting the solution. Be sure you understand every solution, including all the reasoning and not just the shortest way to get a right answer. Reasoning is essential because everything in this course builds on things you have learned before, and because it is much easier to proceed by reasoning from a few principles than by trying to remember large number of unconnected and complicated details.

• Distance Students: View and take notes on related material for Introductory Problem Sets 1 and 2, found on CD #0 under the heading Uniformly Accelerated Motion, and also on Introduction to Rates, Graphs, Linearization on the same CD. Physics 121 students need not master the material on linearization.

• When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program and submit the SEND file using the Submit Work Form for Assignment 1.

links in asst 1

http://www.videoclipstream.com/akamai/h-l/honda/ or http://www.ebaumsworld.com/honda-ad.html

Honda commercial background.htm

Class Notes

Introductory Problem Sets

description of content of each link

The first two links are a Honda Commercial that shows auto parts moving in a domino effect. The second link is an article written on the background of the making of that commercial.

I don't have any of the disks yet, so clicking on Class Notes does nothing at this time. Clicking on Introductory Problem Sets gives a listing for Problem Sets 1-9 with a title for each problem set and examples within in set.

instructions for qa and/or query

See Class Notes #01-#03. Class notes start on CD #2 and are run by running the disk_2 html file in the root folder of the CD. Then run the program q_a_class_notes..., which will ask you the questions posed in the Class Notes Questions and give you feedback on your answers. Send the resulting SEND file in the usual manner.

Distance Students: Complete q_a_area_volumes_misc.exe asst 1 on Areas and submit SEND files at the end the day. This program should have been downloaded from Supervised Study Current Semester > Course Documents > Downloads (the program is directly under Downloads; don't click on Physics I).

View Physics Video Clips 01-03 on the Gen1 CD (note that the root folder of that CD is pretty cluttered; the file you are looking for is entitled disk_1.htm, which might simply show up as disk_1; when the file appears in your browser click on the Physics Video Clips link). Then run the program q_a_video_clips ..., which will ask you the questions posed on the disk_1 file and give you feedback on your answers. Send the resulting SEND file in the usual manner.

When you have completed the entire assignment run the Query program and submit the SEND file using the Submit Work Form for Assignment 1.

qa and query filenames for asst 1

practice_ph1_major_quiz_test_1_2_qa_format

q_a_ph1_15_36

q_a_ph1_assts_1_14_051018

q_a_ph1_vid_exp_2_6

query_ph1_050716

query_ph1_060121

query_ph1_qa_format_part_2_050716

query_ph1_qa_format_part_2_060313

I don't think any of these apply to Assignment I.

instr for text assts

I don't see any instructions regarding the text in Assignment 1 (reading chapter 2 is in Assignment 0).

work text probs on paper; submit thru query after completing asst

I don't think I understand Query. I have several (looks like 4 above)query programs in my downloaded file, and I don't see where it was instructed in the Orientation. How does this work?

what must be and what may be submitted

Submitted work must be submitted using the Submit Work form and must be in a word-processed format - this includes questions regarding text problems with a full description of the problem, your thoughts on the problem and what you're not understanding about the problem. Anything handwritten is unacceptable.

include everything in one document

use paper

Notes, problems, thoughts, etc., should be handwritten because the keyboard is not good for working out problems, mapping out graphs, or reminding you of where you went wrong. Plus, these handwritten items can help with the questions you're asked next.