Gloria's S.I. review sessions

Here are the specs for Gloria's special S.I. review for final exam prep.

Final Exam S.I. Review #1

Tuesday, December 7th

7:00-8:00 PM

Student Union, Cape Florida 316 ABCD

Final Exam S.I. Review, #2

Wednesday, December 8th

7:00-8:00 PM

Study Union, Pegasus Ballroom DEFGHI

As always, I highly recommend that you get your you-know-what over there to one of Gloria's reviews, with the objective being to CRUSH THE FINAL EXAM!

Two more SSGs on the schedule!

There are two more SSG sessions on the schedule.

3. Annette Spivy, 8:15 PM, Library, Wednesday
5. Christian Eissele, 6 PM, Tuesday, UCF Library cafe.

Look for the SSG signups page and look over the SSG schedule to see if any of them fit your exam week schedule.

SSG scheduling

You can start looking at the SSG schedule for next week. Right now there are two SSG groups with scheduling data in place:

4. Kyle Parker's group: Tuesday, December 7th, from 2:15 to 3:15, in the UCF Library
8. John Salisbury's group: Wednesday, December 8th at 7 p.m, in the UCF library

And more SSG leaders will post up their schedules in the next day or so.

Therefore, keep an eye on the SSG signups page, for a convenient session. When we open signups, maybe by Friday or so, you will be ready to pounce.

Homework running

Your homework due Wednesday is now active and running on Webcourses. Look in the red pickup truck folder for Homework 25.

Extra office hours for TAs

Here are additional office hours for the TAs Amanda and Rylee this week.

	Day	Time
Amanda	Tuesday, Nov. 30	11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Rylee	Wednesday, Dec. 1	1:45 - 3:15 PM

Final exam schedule

Our final exam schedule is the following:

	Date	Time
Morning section 0001	Monday, Dec. 13	10:00 AM, sharp
Afternoon section 0002	Friday, Dec. 10	1:00 PM, sharp

You can only take the exam with your section: section 0001 students on Monday only, and afternoon section 0002 students on Friday only -- no exceptions.

For the entire exam week schedule, all classes, look at the official final exam week schedule from the Registrar's website.

L40 discombobulation, morning section

The discombobulation of the morning section yesterday, Wednesday, lecture L40, led to only one CPS question being asked. Big disaster.

But we got recombobulated for afternoon section yesterday, and we asked all 5 questions.

So.... you guys in the morning class will have 4 extra questions in CPS on Monday morning, for warmups. By Monday morning, you will be caught up in the gradebook. YAY.

Have a nice day of thanksgiving.

Homework 24

Waves and diffraction! Homework 24 will go active at 4:30 PM this afternoon. It might help to skim the interference and diffraction sections in chapter 19.

GO! GO! GO!

Homework ready to go.

Lovely Homework #23 is ready to go. As you tackle the homework...

1. have chapter 23 ready to read through,
2. view the visual podcast "Rutherford model and Orange County" in iTunes U. It is in the tab labeled "Podcasts for both sections."

Best three midterms

Your scantron data is in, and the "best three" exam total is operating. The average of the best three midterms is 91 points. That is about 76%. Not too shabby.

No news on exam scantron scores yet.

OK, supper time has come and gone, and no data from test scoring on your scantron scores from Exam 4. Maybe tomorrow.

Exam 4 SMA scores are UP.

What a stressful Wednesday.

But all work is now finished.

1. Your scantrons are at test scoring. Good.
2. Your SMA points from today's test are UP in Webcourses. Good.
3. Time to relax now, and get some ZZZZZZZ. Good.

See you all for lecture on Friday, in which we will look right into the quantum world, starting with chapter 23.

Images: discrete spectrum of hydrogen; Claude Elwood Shannon

CPS study guides are up.

I forgot to post the CPS study guides from Monday, but they are now UP. Look in the William Hung folder.

Last chance for SSG

One more special study group, Last Chance SSG #12 led by Nichloas P., at the Library tonight, 7 PM. Sign up through Webcourses, asap!

Two more SSG sessions, both on Tuesday.

There are two more SSGs that you may join: #10 with Cassie T. and #11 with Angel R. Look to the blue SSG icon on the Webcourses home page.

Get on your SSG!

SSG signups will open for business tonight at 8 PM.

First come, first served.

As more SSG leaders report in, I will open up more groups, so be quick, but if you do not see a space that fits your schedule, check again later.

Homework is ON.

Your homework assignment #22 is now operating. Keep chapter 22 open as you work on it.

SSG signups getting ready

You can start looking at the special study groups (SSG) schedule and meeting places. Look for the blue SSG icon.

Right now we have four SSG leaders who have sent me their meeting data, and you can view their "time and place" specs, to see if thir SSG fits your schedule next week.

More SSG "time and place" data will be coming in this weekend, from more SSG leaders, so keep an eye open for the time and place that best fits your schedule.

I have set the group size to 1, so you can view "time and place" but not click to join. But on Sunday evening or so, I will change all the group sizes to 7 -- and THEN you'll be able to click and join. It works nicely.

Top students, exam points total = 108 or higher, please check your course mail, asap, for your SSG leadership invitation.

S.I. review, prep for Exam 4

Gloria Scott's S.I. review session next Monday to get everyone prepared for Exam 4:

Exam 4, S.I. Review

Monday, Nov. 15

8:00 - 10:00 PM

HPA112

Some hair trouble

Some of the Van de Graaff generator video (by Amanda) is on YouTube. More will be forthcoming. Link to our YouTube is also on Webcourses home page.

CPS status

Right now, there are 94 CPS questions on the books, starting with session L5 and up to today's session, L34. So under the CPS grading scheme, you need to have answered 85% of 94 questions to get all 24 points for class participation on your semester grade. That means 80 answered out of 94.... if I were to compute semester grades today.

As for the CPS correct bonus, you must answer 75% correctly. That would be 71 correct out of 94.

We should be over 100 CPS questions by Friday, and then more each day of lecture until the last day of classes. So we will get to exam week with at least 120 CPS questions on the books, and probably more.

Homework 21 is now ready!

After yesterday's delay with HW 21, I decided to get the homework up today and as early as possible. So look for it to go active at 4:30 PM, this afternoon!

GO GO GO!

No Homework

Sorry, no homework for tonight. See you in lecture tomorrow.

And read ahead into chapter 21, especially the first parts about batteries.

Homework 20

Homework 20, complete with brain burners, is ready now!

Homework 19 will activate in a few minutes.

Your homework assignment for Friday will activate in a few minutes. Go and give it a shot!

Standing waves

From today's lecture, a demonstration of standing waves, using a flexible coil spring.:

CORRECTION -- for students in morning section: You should add up the three time measurements and divide by 30, since they each measured ten full cycles. This moves the decimal point on space to the left in the answer you might have written down in your morning section lecture notes.

Fugitive version of HW 13?

Does anyone have a printout of Homework 13 that I can use to replace the content of missing HW 13? Better yet: a PDF of it? Unfortunately, HW 13 disappeared! I must have accidentally deleted it. We still have the scores for it, though.

But for study purposes, getting ready for the final exam, we could use a fugutuve version of HW 13. Send me a course mail message.

Homework 18 tonight

Your homework 18 assignment, on waves and interference, will activate this afternoon at 4:30 PM.

GO! GO! GO!