| Lecturer: |
Note: Students who request a meeting but do not show
up, or are late by more than half an hour, will lose
their right request appointments.
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| Textbooks: |
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| Attendance: |
- Students are expected to attend all lecture and laboratory sessions.
- Students are responsible for all material covered in lecture, laboratory and assignments.
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| W/Audit Grades: |
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| Grading scale: |
| A: 90-100% |
B: 80-89% |
C: 70-79% |
D: 60-69% |
F: <60% | |
| Grades: |
Total points 400.
Lab - 15%; Quizzes- 15%;
3 Exams - 15% each; Final - 25%.
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| Lab: |
- Total points 60. Experiments and Data - 2 points each, lab
assignments - 2 points each.
- Late/Make-up policy:
- Late for lab: If a student is late by more than 15 min, the student receives no credit for that lab experiment.
- Late assignments/reports will be marked off by 1 point.
- Only one missed can be made up. In order for a make-up lab to be arranged, you must contact the instructor before or no later than a week after the missed lab.
- Students without shatter-resistant eye
goggles or with open-toe shoes will not be permitted to stay in the
laboratory room!
- It is the students' responsibility to
know which lab experiments require protective eye goggles. No students
will be permitted to perform those experiments without protective eye
goggles.
- Students must have a passing lab grade in order to pass the
class!
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| Quizzes: |
- Total points 60. No more than 60
quiz points can be earned throughout the entire semester.
- There will be weekly on-line quizzes
posted on Blackboard each consisting of mostly multiple
choice questions. All quizzes are due either Monday or Wednesday, 10:00 pm.
- It is the student's responsibility
to know when each quiz is due.
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| Exams: |
- There will be 3 exams each worth 60 points.
- The Final Exam is worth 100 pts, it is 2 hours long and is comprehensive.
- Only approved formula sheets can be used during exams. You may download a copy of the formula sheet that will be provided from http://www.nvcc.edu/home/tstantcheva/phy202.htm
- Students may bring only a pen/pencil and a calculator; programmable calculators must have blank memory before the exam.
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| Make-up policy: |
- Exams:
- If an exam is missed due to a
serious unavoidable reason (e.g. personal illness, work schedule, etc.), a
student may be allowed to take a make-up exam. In order for such a permission to be considered, the student must contact the instructor before or NO LATER THAN A WEEK AFTER the exam.
- No more than one make-up exam will ever be granted.
- Under no circumstances will there be make-up
exams for students who have missed more than three lecture or lab classes.!
- Labs: No more than one lab can be made up.
- Final Exam: There is no make-up for the final exam!
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| Academic misconduct: |
Cheating will not be tolerated in
any form. Copying and using someone else's work to obtain
credit, as well as letting someone else copy your work, is
considered cheating.
- Cheating on an exam will result in
failing that exam. A second offence will result in
automatic failing of the class!
- During an exam, if you leave the room for any reason, you will not be permitted to continue working afterwards.
- All assignments are individual unless otherwise specified.
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Disability
accommodations:
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No disability accommodations will be provided unless a Disability Data Sheet is provided to the instructor. Those seeking accommodations based on
disabilities should obtain a Disability Data Sheet through the
Counselor for Special Needs, located in the Bisdorf Building, Room 229
(tel. 703.933.1840).
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