PHYS 102 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Welcome to PHYS 102!
Here's the formula sheet for our course. It will be provided to you electronically through the instruction page on your exam at the CBTF.
This semester we will be delivering PHYS 102 via Remote Learning.
These are the tools we will be using this summer:
- Your course website. Here you will find all of the information you need to succeed this summer in PHYS 102. This includes:
- Links to our course tools.
- Links to our course files and course grade book.
- Grading information and final grade points.
- Important policy information
- The course schedule.
- flipitPhysics: Your homework assignments will be completed in flipitPhysics; your labs will be distributed through flipitPhysics.
- GradeScope: All written work in lab and discussion submitted for grading will use GradeScope
- Media Space: Where your lecture videos will be posted.
- PrairieLearn: The exam system
- Zoom: The videoconferencing tool used for your lab and discussion sections.
flipitPhysics
You will need to get flipitPhysics access and do the first Prelecture and Checkpoint before you go to the first lecture.
- Go to http://flipitphysics.com.
- Click on the Register button, and create an account using your < NetID@illinois.edu > email address
- Complete your profile, then click on the Enrollments Tab
- Click on the Join a Course link and enter UIP102SU21
- Enter your NetID (e.g. whatever is in front of @illinois.edu in your email address) and click Enroll Course
You will need to join a second (FREE) FlipItPhysics class in order to have access to the course lab materials. The instructions below assume you have already signed up for FlipItPhysics as described above.
- Go to http://flipitphysics.com and log into your account, (or if you are already logged in just click the account link at the top).
- Click on the Join a Course link and enter code UIP102SU21_Lab
- Enter your NetID (e.g. whatever is in front of @illinois.edu in your email address) and click Enroll Course
Lecture
Lectures will be pre-recorded and available in Media Space. Students are responsible for viewing and studying the lecture recordings.
Laboratory
Students must be on time and prepared for labs.
- Each student will need an IOLab device (see Required Materials for more details.)
- You will do a hands-on Pre-Lab activity using your IOLab device before every lab, guided by theFlipItPhysics Lab course you signed up for above. In your weekly lab section you will work in groups to design and understand experiments and experimental data, also using your IOLab device.
- You will upload your lab reports to GradeScope for grading.
Discussion
Students must be on time and prepared for discussion. Discussion sections will be held synchronously at the scheduled times. Your discussion grade will be determined by several factors.
- Your TA will announce, at the beginning of the section, which problems will be carefully graded, for correct work and final answer. This might or might not be all of the problems for that scheduled discussion hour.
- For any other problem(s), you will get credit for legitimate effort which could lead to a correct final answer, or progress toward that answer.
- You will get credit for attendance.
The goal of discussion sections is, literally, to foster honest discussion and collaboration within discussion groups. Your TA will be allowed to give leeway that encourages such discussions. For instance: it is official policy that your answers to discussion questions should be submitted by the end of the scheduled discussion section; but your TA may, in some cases, hold open the submission window for a short period afterwards.
Please remember that your teaching assistants are there to help your discussion group make progress; they want to be part of this process.
Excused Absences
- Please submit your excused absence no later than 12 business days from your absence via the Excused Absences application.
- For more information regarding this course's excuses policy, please refer to the Attendance Policy page.
Academic Integrity
- All activities in this course, including documentation submitted for petition for an excused absence, are subject to the Academic Integrity rules as described in Article 1, Part 4, Academic Integrity, of the Student Code.