Week 2 Day 1

Topics:

Today: Getting Started

  • Doing Science

Today: Chapter 1
Observing Motion

  • Motion Diagrams
  • Particle Model
  • Describing Motion
  • Motion Definitions

Next Time: Chapter 1
Observing Motion

  • Adding & Subtracting Vectors
  • Velcocity & Acceleration

Announcements

  • make-up Pre-course diagnostics
    • Archie, Onrique
    • Evans, Christopher Robert
    • Hakim, Amira Abbas
    • Jansen, Brock Christopher
    • Shrader, Brice Scott
  • Policy on Late Homework
    • Paper HW - 10 % reduction per day or 20% per class period after start of class
    • WebAssign HW
      - each student entitled to 6 extensions during the semester
      - email request for extension on day assignment is due
      - extended assignment must be completed before the start of the next class
      - solutions posted after the end of next class
  • WebAssign Log in

Username => Up to 1st three letters of your first name
+ up to 1st five letters of last name (the first letter of your first and last name are capitalized, everything else is lowercase)
Example: John Smith => JohSmith

Institution => ucf (lowercase)

Password => Your EMPL-ID from UCF (This is the 7 numbers from your PID
-- your PID w/o the first letter

Assignments

  • Due last time
    WebAssign Intro Assignment
    EMail Assignment
    Read Chapter 1: Sections 1-6
  • Due Today
    Workbook 1a: 1-9
    Read Chapter 2: Sections 1-5
  • Due Wednesday
    WebAssign: Aug 26 HW + paper
  • Due Friday
    WebAssign: Aug 30 HW - will be posted by 5 PM today
    Workbook 1b: 10,11,16,18,21-25

Activities

  • Groupwork
  • Dimensions
  • Doing Science
    • Observations
    • Making Models
    • Predictions
    • Testing Predictions/Models
  • Motion Diagrams
    • Particle Model
    • Watch the walk
    • fan cart
    • Projectiles
    • Which Way?
  • Brainstorm describing motion
  • Motion Definitions
    • position
    • displacement
    • distance
    • average speed
    • average velocity