PHYS
211 FAQ/Announcements
Announcements
8/19/05 - the website, listserv and syllabus are nominally ready.
Presentations:12/05/05 The Apache Helicopter - Eder Ramirez
12/05/05 Fire Safety Systems in Buildings - Shawna Park
12/05/05 Ballistics - John Patton
12/05/05 Automobile Collisions - Melissa Dingman
12/05/05 GPS - Tyler Grazdik
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.
If you arrive late to take an exam you will not be admitted after the first person to finish leaves.
Presentations/Short Papers
For those of you considering a presentation you should be aware that all proposals for presentations must be approved before Monday, September 12th. Presentations will be scheduled after that. In order to submit a presentation topic for consideration you must email me with your proposal. If your topic is approved you will be responsible for a 10 - 15 minute presentation in class (followed by a question and answer session), a paper of no less than 2000 words to be submitted electronically in MS Word format on or before the date of your presentation, and any overheads or other a/v materials you use (to be submitted to me in a file folder at the conclusion of your presentation). It is the responsibility of the presenter to insure that all a/v devices needed are available at the time of the presentation. The paper/presentation must be crafted entirely by you and used only for this class, i.e., no "double dipping". The paper, presentation, and any a/v materials submitted for points become the property of the instructor of this course and may not be used for any further purpose without their explicit written permission. This will generally not be granted. You must consult at minimum one journal, one book besides the text, and one other source to gather material for a presentation. I reserve the right to accept or reject any presentation proposal without comment.
You must include this cover sheet with your short paper.
If you are scheduled for a presentation and fail to show up it will not be rescheduled but there is no other penalty.
Presentation Schedule:
Plagiarism
Plagiarism in PHYS211 historically has run the gamut from accidental and relatively minor to deliberate and egregious. Although serious instances of plagiarism are relatively rare in this course you should be aware that I still take the issue seriously. 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.
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 "PHYS 211" followed by the subject of your email, e.g., "PHYS 211, Proposal for presentation"
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.