PHYS 152: Physics of Sound and Music: News

This document will be updated throughout the course. Check back here often for updates.

I've posted your midterm exam 2 grades, along with quizzes and homeworks so far. (See the long news item below if you've forgotten how to get to your grades page.)

I've also posted a guaranteed, curved grading scale, and your projected final letter grade based on that scale (assuming your final exam score is the same as the average of your midterm scores, and homework and quiz averages stay the same). This will give you a good idea of whether you're doing okay or if you want to study harder for the final exam.

Some notes:

- if you've made arrangements with me to miss an exam, etc., the missed score will show as a zero. I'll fix this at the end of the term, but the upshot is that your projected grade will be too low. If you're worried, you can calculate your projected grade or get in touch with me to figure it out.

- I've raised the number of dropped quizzes to 4 (from 3 on the syllabus) due to the large number of illnesses. This means you can miss about 2 solid weeks of class without any quiz penalty.

Also, let me reiterate that the midterm survey is open through next Wednesday, so please fill it out. I'm repeating the last announcement from Blackboard below.

Cheers,
Dan

It is a bit past the middle of the term, and I'd like to get your feedback on how the course is going so far. Normally in courses you give feedback in the course evaluations in the last week of class (which helps for future classes), but this is your chance to give feedback that I can implement *this* term. So please take a minute to let me know your thoughts, and complete the anonymous survey.

Please respond to the questions, especially with suggestions for how to improve the course. Your answers are anonymous (Blackboard will show who completed the survey, but won't keep track of who submitted any particular response). Remember that useful feedback pertains to stuff that both affects the quality of the course and is actually within my control.

I'll keep the survey open until Wednesday at midnight. I'll then post your (anonymous) responses online, along with my comments.

To fill out the survey:
1. Log into Blackboard and navigate to this course (PHYS 152) under "My courses".
2. On the left-hand side of the screen, click on the "Midterm Feedback" link.
3. Then click on the "Midterm Feedback" link.
4. Answer each question as completely as you can. Be sure to click "submit" when you're finished.

Cheers,
Dan

http://atomoptics.uoregon.edu/~dsteck/teaching/09fall/phys152/private/grades/950xxxxxx

If you have any trouble seeing your grades or if something doesn't look right, let me know.

Also note:

• next to the assignment there is a link (in green) where you can see your solutions and any grader comments
• if you didn't turn in a homework 1, clicking on the link will result in a 'not found' message.
• there is one orphaned homework 1, from someone who entered solutions but not any correct id; if this is yours, send me email with your confirmation code
• in general, I won't send out email to return homework for future assignments; instead I'll announce them here on the course news page.
• also, if you got a zero score for the second quiz, even though you were clicking in class, your clicker may not be registered properly; send me email with your clicker id (everyone got a full score for the first quiz)