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Phy 232
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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20140715_Q_-_0714_Q_and_test_4
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I'm writing with two questions, which I have to put into the same Question Form so that your response to the second won't overwrite your response to the first (see 1] below):
1) The first is about the first of the two questions that I submitted on Sunday or Monday (the one about the closed tube / organ pipe) and that you appear to have answered on Monday. Unfortunately, your response to that question appears to have been eaten by the the question-form bug that causes a second question-form answer posted on a given day to overwrite the first one posted that day; my work-review page features two responses to my question about the bead problem.
2) In the PHY 232/242 (University Physics II) section of the tests page http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/tests/default.htm, the link labeled Test #4 leads to http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/tests/ph2/testc_4.htm, which labels itself as the fourth test for PHY 202 (College Physics); I'm not sure whether this test is supposed to be the same for both courses.
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What I do understand: [See above re: situation description]
What I don't understand: What's causing the question-form bug and, more importantly, whether University Physics' Test #4 is supposed to be the same (or, rather, whether its problems are supposed to be selected from the same pool) as that for College Physics' Test 4; for what it's worth, there's no page http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/tests/ph2/test4u.htm to follow the pattern of http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/tests/ph2/test1u.htm, http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/tests/ph2/test2u.htm, and http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/tests/ph2/test3u.htm. (I also tried http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/tests/ph2/testu_4.htm for the u[niversity] version of http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/tests/ph2/testc[ollege]_4.htm, which itself differs from http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/tests/ph2/test[1, 2, and 3]c.htm, but that didn't lead to a valid file.)
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1) Would you mind reposting your response to my question about the closed-end tube / organ pipe?
2) Is PHY 232's Test #4 supposed to be the same as PHY 202's Test #4? If so, just let me know; it might also be nice to add PHY 232 to the heading of http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/tests/ph2/testc_4.htm (e.g., General College Physics and University Physics [PHY 202 and 232/242] Test 4) to make that clear. If not, would you please send me the correct URL (again, http://vhmthphy.vhcc.edu/tests/ph2/test4u.htm yields a File or directory not found. error)?
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I know what's causing the overwriting, of which I've very recently become aware. I've posted my response to the bead problem just after this one. I've expanded the name of the file, so it won't overwrite this one.
The program that runs the testing was until recently running on a very touchy (and somewhat complicated) system. We've moved it to a much better server over which I have no control, but to which we're trying to get me write access. However we're not there yet, so I can't do anything right now about the labeling of Test #4. However you are correct that that is the right test. I grade it more strictly for Phy 232 than for 202, but it's still a pretty straightforward test based on Problem Set 7.
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