Bonus Point Opportunities

• There are several ways to earn extra credit or bonus points in this class. Other than what is outlined on this page, no other extra credit will be given

• Over Labor Day weekend there will be an optional pre-course diagnostic given in Lon-Capa. At the end of the semester on the weekend just before the final exam, there will be a second, optional post-course diagnostic. A1% participation bonus will be added to the final average of any student taking the pre-course or post course diagnostic. If you participate in both 2% will be added to your final average. If you only participate in one, 1% is added and if you do not participate (or don't give a serious effort) no bonus will be added. Simple submission patterns(like AAA..., or BBB...) or rapidly clicking on any response throughout the diagnostic are not considered serious efforts and no bonus will be given
• There are bonus questions in the online lecture folders. You should be able to answer these after completing the assigned reading from the required text and watching the online lectures. These bonus questions are programmed to look like exam questions, as such, they are all multiple choice. In addition, some of these bonus questions are questions used on previous exams for this course and its traditional equivalent. Lon-Capa's feedback option is disabled, so unlike regular homework problems, Lon-Capa will not tell you if you have the correct answer until after the due date. In addition, the discussion board on these questions has been disabled. These questions are meant for you to work out yourself after having read the assigned reading and watched the online lectures. All points earned here will be added to your total homework points as a homework bonus (so, homework scores over 100% are possible). Hints and/or solutions to the bonus questions will not be provided.
• The midterm exams will have a correction exam assigned as a homework assignment in Lon-Capa. 30% of the positive difference between the correction exam and the in-class exam will be added to your in-class exam score as bonus. As such, the correction exam homework assignment can only add points to your midterm exam score. Only students taking the original exam will have access to the correction exam. The correction exam will be available at noon on the day after the scheduled exam and will be due at the regular homework due date/time the following week.
• This is the first semester using a new set of online lectures which I will be preparing throughout the semester. For this semester only, I am offering up to five extra credit points to be added to your final exam score for finding any errors in the online lectures. The errors must be something wrong on the slide specific to the physics or calculations. Only one student will receive credit for each error found. To receive credit, the student must post on the message board the slide number/time in the lecture and a description of the error. Only the first student posting this information about a given error will receive one bonus point. These bonus points will be added to your final exam score at the end of the semester. Total bonus points for finding errors will not exceed five. The deadline for receiving bonus credit is the same as the deadline for the homework set associated with the online lecture.

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Last updated: August 26, 2014