December 10, 2009
The final exam will be on Tuesday, December 15th from 5:45PM until 7:45PM in Chemistry (CEM) room 136. The exam will be comprehensive. It will be based on both the readings and the homework. In addition, as stated in the syllabus some of the problems will be reworded problems from the three midterm exams. There are 200 possible points on the exam however your percent score will be calculated relative to 180 possible points. So, scores over 100% are possible.
The exam is closed book, but you may use two 8-1/2 inch x 11 inch or smaller sheets of original (no copies) hand-written notes and equations. You may use both sides of your note sheets.
You should bring a few sharpened number 2 pencils, your student ID (or driver’s license) and a calculator (graphing calculators are OK). Pencils and calculators may not be provided. Also as a courtesy to your fellow students, you should turn off all cell phones and pagers before entering the room.
When you enter the room, you should pick up an exam and an answer sheet from the front of the room. DO NOT open the exam until you are told to do so by an instructor. You can however, complete the student information section of your answer sheet. Make sure you include your student ID number and the six letter code in the spaces provided on your answer sheet. You will find your code near the top of your exam. This information is needed to grade your exam.
The cover page for the exam can be found at the bottom of the table of contents in Lon-Capa. Some useful information is included on the cover page. Note: the exam cover page is for all of the mid-term exams and not all of the useful information listed here is applicable to this exam. There are a total of 31 questions on this exam.
Richard Hallstein
December 3, 2009
The third exam will be on Monday, December 7th from 5:30PM until 6:30PM in Farrall Agricultural Engineering Hall (FAE) room 116. The exam will be comprehensive, but will concentrate on the material in online chapters 10 through and including 14 (homework sets 9 through 11). It will be based on both the readings and the homework. Some of the problems will be conceptual in nature and some will have numerical answers. There are 100 possible points on the exam however your percent score will be calculated relative to 90 possible points. So, scores over 100% are possible.
The exam is closed book, but you may use one 8-1/2 inch x 11 inch or smaller sheet of original (no copies) hand-written notes and equations. You may use both sides of your note sheet.
You should bring a few sharpened number 2 pencils, your student ID (or driver’s license) and a calculator (graphing calculators are OK). Pencils and calculators may not be provided. Also as a courtesy to your fellow students, you should turn off all cell phones and pagers before entering the room.
When you enter the room, you should pick up an exam and an answer sheet from the front of the room. DO NOT open the exam until you are told to do so by an instructor. You can however, complete the student information section of your answer sheet. Make sure you include your student ID number and the six letter code in the spaces provided on your answer sheet. You will find your code near the top of your exam. This information is needed to grade your exam.
You will have one hour to complete the exam.
In the exam section of the syllabus there is a link to the exam I gave in a previous course.
The cover page for the exam can be found at the bottom of the table of contents in Lon-Capa. Some useful information is included on the cover page. Note: the exam cover page is for all of the mid-term exams and not all of the useful information listed here is applicable to this exam. There are a total of 17 questions on this exam.
Richard Hallstein
October 28, 2009
The second exam will be on Monday, November 2nd from 5:30PM until 6:30PM in Farrall Agricultural Engineering Hall (FAE) room 116. Some streets in and around the campus are closed for construction, so you should allow extra time to get to the exam location. The exam will be comprehensive, but will concentrate on the material in online chapters 6 through and including 9 (homework sets 5 through 8). It will be based on both the readings and the homework. Some of the problems will be conceptual in nature and some will have numerical answers. There are 100 possible points on the exam however your percent score will be calculated relative to 90 possible points. So, scores over 100% are possible.
The exam is closed book, but you may use one 8-1/2 inch x 11 inch or smaller sheet of original (no copies) hand-written notes and equations. You may use both sides of your note sheet.
You should bring a few sharpened number 2 pencils, your student ID (or driver’s license) and a calculator (graphing calculators are OK). Pencils and calculators may not be provided. Also as a courtesy to your fellow students, you should turn off all cell phones and pagers before entering the room.
When you enter the room, you should pick up an exam and an answer sheet from the front of the room. DO NOT open the exam until you are told to do so by an instructor. You can however, complete the student information section of your answer sheet. Make sure you include your student ID number and the six letter code in the spaces provided on your answer sheet. You will find your code near the top of your exam. This information is needed to grade your exam.
You will have one hour to complete the exam.
In the exam section of the syllabus there is a link to the exam I gave in a previous course.
The cover page for the exam can be found at the bottom of the table of contents in Lon-Capa. Some useful information is included on the cover page. Note: the exam cover page is for all of the mid-term exams and not all of the useful information listed here is applicable to this exam. There are a total of 16 questions on this exam.
Richard Hallstein
September 30, 2009
The first exam will be on Monday, October 5th from 5:30PM until 6:30PM in Farrall Agricultural Engineering Hall (FAE) room 116. Some streets in and around the campus are closed for construction, so you should allow extra time to get to the exam location. The exam will cover everything through and including Chapter 5 (from the online text). It will be based on both the readings and the homework. Some of the problems will be conceptual in nature and some will have numerical answers. There are 100 possible points on the exam however your percent score will be calculated relative to 90 possible points. So, scores over 100% are possible.
The exam is closed book, but you may use one 8-1/2 inch x 11 inch or smaller sheet of original (no copies) hand-written notes and equations. You may use both sides of your note sheet.
You should bring a few sharpened number 2 pencils, your student ID (or driver’s license) and a calculator (graphing calculators are OK). Pencils and calculators will NOT be provided. Also as a courtesy to your fellow students, you should turn off all cell phones and pagers before entering the room.
When you enter the room, you should pick up an exam and an answer sheet from the front of the room. DO NOT open the exam until you are told to do so by an instructor. You can however, complete the student information section of your answer sheet. Make sure you include your student ID number and the six letter code in the spaces provided on your answer sheet. You will find your code near the top of your exam. This information is needed to grade your exam.
You will have one hour to complete the exam.
In the exam section of the syllabus there is a link to the exam I gave in a previous course.
The cover page for the exam can be found at the bottom of the table of contents in Lon-Capa. Some useful information is included on the cover page. Note: the exam cover page is for all of the mid-term exams and not all of the useful information listed here is applicable to this exam. There are a total of 17 questions on this exam.
Homework set 5 will be due at its regular time on Friday, October 9th.
Richard Hallstein
September 4, 2009
Starting Tuesday, September 8th the help room will be open during the following hours:
Mondays 3PM to 7PM
Tuesdays 9AM to 11:30AM and 3PM to 7PM
Wednesdays 9AM to Noon and 1PM to 7PM
Thursdays 1PM to 6PM
Fridays 9AM to Noon and 1PM to 6PM
Richard Hallstein
Instructor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/2009fall/phy231c/
September, 2 2009
Welcome to Virtual University. PHY 231C is now open. The course syllabus can be viewed at:
http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/2009fall/phy231c/
Online reading and homework sets are on Lon-Capa. In addition, there is a required textbook for this course (see the syllabus for details). There are instructions for using Lon-Capa in the syllabus. There are weekly homework sets due on Fridays at 6:00PM. The first assignment is due on Friday, September 11th. All of the homework is inside the HOMEWORK folder at the bottom of the course table of contents.
There is a help room staffed by Graduate Teaching Assistants in The Strosacker Learning Center, Room 1248 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building. The help room will be open starting next week and the exact hours will be announced early next week. Students should spend several hours per week, as needed, visiting the help room to work with other students and consult with teaching assistants. Both on and off campus students should visit the MSU campus for this purpose.
There will be three midterms and one final exam given on the MSU campus – the dates and times are shown in the syllabus. There will be no make-up exams. However, if you miss a midterm exam for any reason you will be allowed to drop this exam and the midterm portion of your final grade will be based on the other two midterm exams. Only one midterm exam will be dropped – the final exam will NOT be dropped. If you take all three midterms, your lowest midterm exam score will be dropped when calculating your final grade.
If you are living far from the MSU campus at the time of the exam, beyond a reasonable commuting distance, or if you are traveling with an MSU-sponsored program, you may be able to arrange a proctored off-campus exam. Arrangements must be made well in advance of the exam – requests made after the deadline will not be accommodated and you will have to take the exam at MSU. See the exam section of the syllabus for details and deadlines for arranging an off-campus exam.
Also included in the exam section of the syllabus are midterm exams given in a previously offered course.
Questions seeking help with a homework problem should be posted online using the “Post Discussion” option in Lon-Capa. Do not e-mail these questions directly to me. By using the post discussion option, others having similar difficulties can benefit from the responses posted by me, the graduate teaching assistants or other students enrolled in the course.
Although you may get sufficient assistance on some of the less complicated questions via the “Post Discussion” option, you will get better service working with the graduate teaching assistants and other students in the help room.
If you have an administrative question about the course, e-mail it to me and include the course title in the e-mail's subject line.
Richard Hallstein
Instructor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Last updated: December 10, 2009