Fall week 4 assignments

      Physical Systems 1998-99
      with E.J. Zita
    Check these daily. Assignments may change later in the week. For example, Thursday's assignment may depend on what happens in Tuesday's class meetings.

    Reading this week:

    • read Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" through Ch. 5, including preface and poastscript(s)
    • optional:  Bertrand Russell's "Mysticism and Logic" is on closed reserve in the Library
    • Mechanics Ch.8 Sections 1, 2, 6 (Gravity), Ch.9.3 (Virial Theorem)
    • Grossman Ch.5.2-3 from last week, new stuff for this week_________

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    Monday      Tuesday      Wednesday      Thursday      Friday
     
    Monday: Overview: Get together with your team today to prepare your presentation for tomorrow's class.
       
      Prepare: Over the weekend, you worked  through your study guide individually, in detail.  Pick a couple of candidate HW problems on your section to propose to your team.

      Do: Work with your team today to prepare your presentation  for tomorrow's class.  Discuss your individual questions and answers.  Decide on a couple of problems for us to do as HW for next week.

         
      Due:   Email Zita which HW problems your team chose, and where to find the study guide your team developed on a web page or shared folder.  Make sure all authors are credited, and I'll make a link to your guide, and post the HW everyone chose.
         
    Tuesday morning: Overview:  Seminar in the morning.
      Prepare: Read Kuhn and write a 1-page response.  Summarize his point  fairly, and make your own point compellingly. Notice points of contact with past discussions and with Sagan Ch.12.
       

      Do: contribute thoughtfully to seminar, including specific page numbers for your textual references.

      Due: 1 page paper, and a web crossing post afterwards

    Tuesday afternoon: Overview: Mechanics Ch.8.1,2,6 and Ch.9.3:  Gravity and Virial Theorem
      Prepare: work through study guides individually on weekend and as a group on Monday.

      Do: present your material in about 30+ minutes.  Pick one problem for us to do in class (if time) and one for HW.

      Due: Mechanics Ch.2 HW # 1,4,6,11,13, plus your team's finished study guide and your individual study guide that you worked through on your own over the weekend, with changes made in a different color pen to reflect what you learned in your reading and discussions.
       

    Wednesday: Overview: WAW#3:  Bring photos to scan into your web page!
       
    Thursday: Overview: Continue working with Mechanics Ch.8-9:  Gravity and Virial
      Prepare: Did you send Zita the problems your jigsaw team recommends for this week?

      Do: Continue jigsaw sessions on Mechanics Ch.8; practice problems;  overview lecture.

      Due: Grossman  HW due

      • Ch.10.3 # 28, Ch.10.4 # 4-6, Ch.5.2 # 33-34, Ch.5.3 # 7-10
      • Story problem:  Restate the situation you described in last week's homework.  Assign labels and units to the relevant variables and parameters, using words to be explicit and clear.  Now try writing an equation that describes your situation.  Explain in words why you chose the form you did for each term in your equation.  What are your dependent and your independent variables?  Which are  parameters?
       
    Friday: Work with your research teams

      Do: Get your study guide for next week and work through details over the weekend.

      Due: Post progress reports for each research team on WebX.  Read other teams' reports.

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