How to review for unit 2 assessment

We're approaching an assessment this Thursday, and with no class on tuesday, you should not wait until Wednesday to begin reviewing. Here are my suggestions.

1. Begin by reading over the Unit 2 Major Concepts Sheet. Circle any concepts you are unclear on, and email questions to the blog.
2. Make sure you are comfortable solving all the problems on MOP 26—this is a nice review of constant acceleration model, which is one of the more difficult concepts in this unit.
3. Do the problems in the Unit II review. I will post solutions on wednesday.
4. After that, go back to the Major Concepts sheet and try to figure out which problems from MOP 26 and Unit 2 review test which concepts.

How to submit assignments electronically

A few of you have been emailing me assignments, and while this as been great, I'm realizing that keeping track of these assignments is difficult, given the number of emails I am getting, so I'm setting up this process for submitting work. If you plan to submit an assignment via email (and I encourage you to do so, I ask you follow these guidelines:

1. Submit a readable document (I can read all versions of word, open office, pages, excel, etc). If you write your stuff in something crazy like wordperfect 1.0, email beforehand to make sure I can read it. If I can't open the document, YOUR GRADE IS ZERO, AND WILL REMAIN THAT UNTIL YOU SUBMIT A READABLE ASSIGNMENT (AND YOU WILL SUFFER A LATE PENALTY).
   
   
2. Follow the following convention for naming your document:
   "Period number Last Name First Initial Assignment title. " So Bob Smith, submitting his texting paper from 7th period would title his document: "7 Smith B Texting Letter" without the quotes. Do not name the assignment unrecognizable things like "texting paper" or "stupid physics assignment." (you might lose points for the second one).
   
   
3. If you got an extension from me in advance, please copy and paste my response to your request into the body of your email to me.
   
   
4. Follow the same convention for your subject line that you do for naming the document. "7 Smith B Texting Letter."
   
   
5. Email your attachment, FROM YOUR WMS Account (or otherwise easily recognizable email, not laxgirl17@aol.com) to the following addresses (add these addresses to your address book):
   
   For 1st period: jburkWMS+1stper@gmail.com
   
   For 3rd period: jburkWMS+3rdper@gmail.com
   
   For 7th period jburkWMS+7thper@gmail.com
   
   

Thank you in advance for following this procedure. It will greatly simplify my record keeping, and will allow me to return assignments to you more quickly. AS a reward for submitting your assignments following this procedure, I will give +1 point bonus for all assignments submitted using these procedures (you can resubmit if you've already submitted). In the future, I might deduct points for submitted assignments that do not follow this procedure.

How to blog

I finally had a spare moment to put together a short jing on how to blog, and a couple of other neat features of the website. Check them out here:

How to blog (< 2min)

How to put an equation in a blog post (< 2 min)

How to search the blog and use the class calendar (< 2min)

Videos you will need for the "Photo Finish Lab"

I've created a set of short, instructional screencasts on how to use excel. You will need these when we get started on the "photo finish" lab.

1. How to export data from logger pro

2. How to make a position vs time graph in excel.

3. How to find the instantaneous velocity using excel.

4. How to make a velocity vs time graph in excel.