ISP205 VISIONS OF THE UNIVERSE
Section 3, Spring 2003, Prof. Stein

FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)


  1. FINAL EXAM

    The final exam is Wednesday, April 30, 8-10 pm in room N100, Eli Broad College of Business.

  2. HOMEWORK 4, PROBLEM 7

    Problem #7 from homework 4 is postponed till next week, because we haven't covered that material yet. It will be reassigned as part of homework 5.

  3. MID TERM GRADES

    The grades on the midterm exam are:
    (a) The essay questions grade (??/61)
    (b) The multiple choice questions grade ??/25
    One multiple choice question (about when the universe became transparent) was dropped because of a typo removing the correct answer. Another (about the light with least energy) was counted only as extra credit, again because of the typo.
    Furthermore, the mulitple choice score on the exam may be 1 or 2 higher than you received via email from the scoring office because I manually corrected some scores to account for other typo problems. (c) The overall exam percentage. Note each multiple choice is 3 points, so 75 points for multiple choice questions and 61 points for essay questions. The total points is thus divided by 1.36 to get the percentage.
    (d) Your course percentage up till now, including the exam, quiz, homeworks, and in class activities. The exam accounted for 75% of the grade, the rest for 25%. The non-exam part should pull your grade up, but unfortunately for many it lowered the grade.
    (e) On some exams there is the overall grade corresponding to the course percentage. If not given you can find the correspondence on the course information page: www.pa.msu.edu/courses/isp205/sec-3/isp205.info.html

  4. MID TERM EXAM

    We have briefly covered a lot of topics in this first unit. As a guide for studying for the exam -- concentrate on those topics from the outline that we discussed in class and those objectives that are listed at the end of the cosmos sylabus. Study those parts of the outline and then read the sections of the text that are relevant to those topics. Then discuss the material with a friend (even if they are not taking the class).

  5. HOMEWORK

    Anyone who will be missing class when homework is due can turn it in anytime before class. Either to my office 3266 (push it under door if I am not in) or to the astronomy secretaries office room 3261. It must be turned in before class to get credit for it.

  6. UNIT CONVERSION?

    A discussion of converting the units of the Hubble constant can be found on the web at www.pa.msu.edu/courses/isp205/sec-3/units.html.

  7. READINGS?

    Where the syllabus lists a chapter read the entire chapter, where it ONLY lists sections just read those sections. Where both a chapter and sections in it are listed read the entire chapter, but note the specfic sections for the individual pieces of the material.


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