Administrative Info

Meeting Time and Place: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:50pm-2:10pm. Physics P112.
Office Hours: Mon and Wed, 10am-11am, and by appointment and chance.
Credits: 3

Policies

Exams. During exams, you may use the course textbook (current or previous edition), your own notes, handouts that were distributed in class or posted on the course web sites, and a dictionary. You may not bring someone else's notes or a mechanical reproduction of all or part thereof. You may not bring a different textbook or a mechanical reproduction of all or part thereof.

Grading. Each assignment is graded relative to some maximum number of points (e.g., 20). The maximum number of points is unrelated to the weight of the assignment in the course grade. Each score is normalized into a number between zero and one (e.g., 19/20 -> 0.95) and then multiplied by the weight of the assignment to obtain a weighted score. Course grades are based primarily on the sum of the weighted scores.

Grading of Teamwork. Each project assignment will receive a score reflecting the quality of the work. At the end of the semester, each team member's score for that assignment will be computed by multiplying that score by an individual contribution factor (ICF) that reflects the team member's overall contribution to the team effort for the entire semester. Ideally, every team member will contribute equally to the overall effort. In that case, every team member's ICF is 1, and every team member receives the same scores for all projects. If some team member's overall contribution was, for example, only 90% of his or her fair share, then that team member's score for each project will be computed by multiplying the original score for the project by that team member's ICF of 0.9. A team member who contributes more than his or her fair share will have an ICF larger than 1. We will evaluate each team member's contribution using all available information, including the summary of contributions in the README of each project assignment.

Slip Days. Each student has 3 slip days that can be used with any assignments. The late submission penalty does not accumulate during slip days. If you want to use one or more slip days for an assignment, you must clearly indicate this at the time you submit the assignment. Slip days must be used in integer amounts. Using a slip day for a project submission consumes a slip day of each team member.

Submission of Assignments

Assignments that do not involve programming should be submitted on paper in class on the due date, unless the assignment specifies otherwise. Assignments submitted after the end of class on the due date are late and receive a -3% penalty. Assignments submitted the next day receive a -6% penalty, and so on.

Submission instructions for assignments that involve programming will be included in the assignment.

Grading Weights (Tentative)

Project	35
Homeworks	30
Midterm	15
Final	20
TOTAL	100

Grading Statistics

The following information may be slightly inaccurate, due to late submissions and re-grades.