Physics 131 Homework Assignments (Fall 2011)

Prof. E. F. Redish

The weekly homework assignments have two parts.

• The online part is done in the web environment, MasteringPhysics. Each week that has two parts.
  • The MP subpart consists of tutorials and exercises. You may do them as many times as you want until you get them right. They are for practice and are worth 1 HW point each.
  • The R subpart consist of 2-3 more challenging problems including estimations, explanations, essay questions, worked out problems, and even some challenging multiple choice questions. For these you will have to work them out first and you will not see the answers (on BlackBoard) until after the homework is due. You are encouraged to work on these with friends, but be careful! If two or more submitted answers are essentially identical, neither will receive credit. Work together, but write up your solutions independently. These are worth 2 or 3 HW points each.
• The lecture homework is one problem to be written up on paper and handed in at the beginning of Wednesday lecture. These are more extended problems and are to be written up like a report -- preferably typed, but can be expected to include equations, calculation, drawings, and graphs. The quality of the presentation will be considered in the score as well as the quality of the solution. These are worth 5 HW points.

The lecture homeworks can be obtained by clicking below. The links will be populated the day the previous assignments are due. Once the assignments have been collected, the solutions will be posted on Blackboard.

Email Connections.

• Prof. Redish (Lecture Instructor) (redish@physics.umd.edu)
• Joshua Parker (TA) (jmparker@umd.edu)

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Last revision 14 November, 2011.