PHYS
211/212 FAQ/Announcements
Announcements
1/16/11 - the website, listserv and syllabus are nominally ready.
FAQ
Tutoring
Though CAT has tutors for this class they vary in quality. Tutors are available through the Physics Department for PHYS211/212 in the Physics Department tutoring room who are all very good. At least one of the tutors is generally available right after our class.
Mathematica
Mathematica is now available for faculty, staff and students: https://sites.google.com/a/isu.edu/mathematica/ Login to the Google site using your ISU email or bengalweb password and create an account on the Wolfram user portal. If you use your ISU email for the account and make the request from an ISU IP address administrative approval will not be required.This is a huge benefit for all science and engineering students and I urge you to take advantage of it.
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. No admittance without some form of ID.
Cell phones and other electronic devices (PDA's, etc.) are not allowed to be used during the course of a quiz or exam.
The TI30XA (or its solar powered equivalent) is the only calculator allowed for exams or quizzes in PHYS211/212 and the accompanying labs.
If you arrive late to take an exam you will not be admitted after the first person to finish leaves.
Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty
When you submit work for credit in PHYS211/212 it goes to graders who will check your methods, sources (where appropriate) and use various tools at our disposal to check the originality of your work. Academic dishonesty in PHYS211/212 has historically run the gamut from accidental and relatively minor to deliberate and egregious. If you submit work for credit and it is subsequently determined that you have collaborated, plagiarized or otherwise violated either the letter or spirit of ISU policies concerning academic dishonesty I will, at minimum, award significantly less than maximum points for your effort. If I determine an intent to deceive on your part (egregious dishonesty) I will recommend to the chair of the Physics Department that you be dismissed from the course with a failing grade and notation on your transcript. All work submitted for credit on the McGraw-Hill website must be done independently. You are not to consult with fellow students, tutors or anyone else for help with online quizzes, homework or the final exam.
My volume of email runs between 80 - 600 per day. Because of the high volume of mail I get it 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 "PHYS211/212" followed by the subject of your email, e.g., PHYS211 "I would like...." I will get such email right away. Feel free to email me anytime 24 x 7. I have a Blackberry that is surgically attached and I get all messages that are sent to hackmart@physics.isu.edu and have something in the subject line that identifies you as a student in one of my classes.
My official email address is hackmart@physics.isu.edu. I am unlikely to receive email that you send to any email address other than the one above (at least very fast). Please do not respond to email from the listserv or any other email address other than the one above.
If you have a question about how a problem on a quiz or exam was graded just send an email to hackmart@physics.isu.edu with the subject line PHYS211/212 "Attention Graders" This will be routed directly to the grading staff and they should respond within 24 hours. Anything graded by the McGraw-Hill website is "as is."
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 come through the back doors, seat yourself 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. Keep the noise and distractions down.
Please show my staff (proctors, tutors) courtesy. They are students just like you. I am responsible for the content, rules and policies in this course, not them.
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.