PHYS 111/112 FAQ/Announcements

Announcements

5/14/065 - the website, listserv and syllabus are nominally ready.

FAQ

Exams

Please be sure to bring your student ID with you to take an exam. You will need to know you ID number for the test and the proctor will ask to see your ID before you are allowed to take the exam.

Cell phones and other electronic devices (PDA's, etc.) are not allowed to be used during the course of an exam.

The TI30XA (or its solar powered equivalent) is the only calculator allowed for exams or quizzes in PHYS111.

If you arrive late to take an exam you will not be admitted after the first person to finish leaves.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism in PHYS111 historically has run the gamut from accidental and relatively minor to deliberate and egregious. If you submit a paper or presentation and it is determined that you have plagiarized another source or sources I will, at minimum, award zero to significantly less than maximum points for your effort. If I determine an intent to deceive on your part (egregious plagiarism) I will recommend to the chair of the Physics Department that you be dismissed from the course with a failing grade.

When you submit a paper it goes to graders who will check your sources and use various web searching tools to scan your text. All of this occurs before I see your paper. If your paper consists of a series of "cut and pastes" from other sources it will probably come up in the screening process. If you have correctly quoted and/or cited material in an appropriate manner your paper will pass the screening process (you probably won't earn very many points with this approach but you will not be guilty of plagiarism). If not, I will be calling you in to discuss your work.

email

My volume of email runs between 80 - 100 per day. About 20% of this is junk mail or spam. Because of the high volume of mail I get, and the concomitant potential for importing viruses, all of my mail is screened before I see it. If you want to be sure that your email gets past screening please be sure to preface the subject line with "GENPHYS SUM06" followed by the subject of your email, e.g., "GENPHYS S06 , wah, wah wah...."

My official email address is hackmart@physics.isu.edu. If you send an email to me, receive a response from a different address, and want to reply to that response please do so to the above address.

I will frequently email information concerning exams, deadline reminders, etc., to the class. If you would like to be on the mailing list for the class you may subscribe here.

Decorum

Please turn off your cell phones before class or set the ringer to an inaudible setting.

If you arrive late for class please be seated in the back of the room and cause as little disturbance as possible.

Please do not carry on side conversations in class during lecture.

Please be courteous to your colleagues.

If you are consistently or seriously in breach of any of the above you will be sanctioned in accordance with ISU's disruptive student policy.