Rules of the Road

Procedures and My Rules of the Road

Class Meetings

1. Lectures on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in ESLC 130, unless it is a holiday or you are taking a class exam, which will also be in this room.

2. Recitations on Thursdays only and each begins with a QUIZ.

3. Laboratory sessions on days and times as you signed up. Note these do not occur each week. See syllabus.

4. To interact with Instructor, use the following procedures:

a) Schedule a meeting with him after the lectures.

b) Send him an e-mail to schedule a meeting.

c) Send him e-mail describing your question/problem.

d) Stick notes to his office door, specifically stating your name (or class ID), how he can reach you, and the problem.

e) Go to his office (SER 250A).

Rules

1. The following are applied to all students uniformly.

2. Homework, recitation quizzes, and laboratory are mandatory.

3. There are no laboratory session make-ups; see notes on laboratory procedures.

4. Recitation quizzes are administered at the start of the recitation period; no make-ups are offered, and late attendance, which disrupts the recitation class, is treated as a missed quiz. (The instructor will support recitation teacher decisions regarding this issue 100%).

5. Homework can earn 100% (or more) credit if completed before 1:00 a.m. on the Monday after the week it is assigned. Late homework receives lesser credit. Absolutely no written homework is accepted. The IT support for this Web homework is maintained by the publisher, with over 40,000 students using it. Their statistics are that their computer system, its backup, and IT support have had zero downtime in the last 5 years. Our experience using the system since Fall 2004 is that the system was only unexpectedly down for about 2 hours on one Sunday night.

6. Exams 1, 2, and 3 will cover only the material since the prior exam. The final exam is comprehensive, covers all the material taught during the semester in PHYS 2210.

7. No make-up exams are offered.

Grade Determination

In fairness to all students in the class, the above rules are imposed uniformly on all students. If a student in Physics 2210 misses more than 3 laboratory sessions or in Physics 2200 misses more than 2 laboratory sessions they have failed the entire class. Grading is based on the following final grade breakdown.

Physics 2210	Physics 2200
Laboratory: 20 Homework: 15 Recitation: 10 Exam 1: 10 Exam 2: 10 Exam 3: 10 Final Exam: 25 (Final is comprehensive) 100	Laboratory: 20 Homework: 15 Recitation: 10 Exam 1: 27 Exam 2: 28 100

Getting Help Doing PHYS 2200/2210

1. The Physics department has a problem-solving center called the Learning Center (GEOG Rm 401). Please get used to using this. Please report to the Physics office or the instructor (Jan Sojka via e-mail) if the Learning Center instructor is not present. They are paid to be there.

2. The next level of attack is to get to know your Recitation Teaching Assistant. He or she is usually approachable to help on class questions. They are integrally involved in setting and grading exams.

3. Contact Jan Sojka as outlined in the earlier section (Class Meetings), item 4.

4. Do not wait until the last minute, i.e., asking about homework on Sunday night at 11 p.m. or the evening before an exam, etc.; no help is offered at such times.