Journal Topics

Weeks are counted starting with week 1 due Thursdays and numbering sequentially.

Week 1:

Tell me a little about why you chose to come to Physics 132 and what you think will happen in the course.
- Why I am taking Physics and how it relates to my major.
- What I hope to learn from this course.
- What I hope to do with this new knowledge.
- What I expect the lectures to do for me.
- What I expect the book to do for me.
- What I expect the quizzes to do for me.
How many hours you think it will take to learn all you need to know from this course? Include everything: lectures, homework, etc. fill in ______ h/wk
How can the journal be of greater help to you this quarter than last?
What did you learn in Physics 132 this week? How did you learn it? What techniques for teaching/learning helped you learn? Why/how do you believe what you learned is the correct description of the way nature works? (be specific)

due by 8 January 2004

Week 2:

How does charge differ from mass in causing force to act?
What is the difference between a field and a force?
If I were a professor, what problems on this week’s topics would I assign to determine if my students understood the material? Give specific example(s) as appropriate.
What did you learn in Physics 132 this week? How did you learn it? What techniques for teaching/learning helped you learn? Why/how do you believe what you learned is the correct description of the way nature works? (be specific)

due 15 January 2004

Week 3:

How can the lab handouts be made more useful/readable, so that you would read them in detail before lab?
After due consideration and now that some time has elapsed, what did you like or dislike most about the Physics 131 final?
Describe a field in your own words. Explain the similarities and differences between the gravitational and electric fields, again in your own words.
If I were a professor, what problems on this week’s topics would I assign to determine if my students understood the material? Give specific example(s) as appropriate.
What did you learn in Physics 132 this week? How did you learn it? What techniques for teaching/learning helped you learn? Why/how do you believe what you learned is the correct description of the way nature works? (be specific)

due 22 January 2004

Week 5:

What is the one problem you’d most like to see on a midterm, quiz, or final? Why that particular problem? Include a solution to the problem.
Explain how you know whether a system is bound or not.
Explain how you know that an EMF is a source of potential difference that gets ’used up’ and not a source of current that gets ’used up.’
If I were a professor, what problems on this week’s topics would I assign to determine if my students understood the material? Give specific example(s) as appropriate.

due 5 February 2004

Week 6:

What is the one problem you’d least like to see on a midterm, quiz, or final? Why that particular problem?
Explain why we use a resitor in parallel with a galvanometer to make an ammeter, and why we use a resistor in series to make a voltmeter. What can be said about the relative sizes of the resistors to be used? Explain.
Also answer the following four questions
- 1. What do you love about this class?
- 2. What do you hate about this class?
- 3. If you were teaching this class, what would you do?
- 4. If you could change one thing about this class, what would it be?
If I were a professor, what problems on this week’s topics would I assign to determine if my students understood the material? Give a specific example(of a specific problem you would write.

due 12 February 2004

Week 7:

What have you learned, if anything, from the tests and quizzes?
How can a time-varying magnetic flux give rise to an EMF? Explain.
If I were a professor, what problems on this week’s topics would I assign to determine if my students understood the material? Give a specific example (of a specific problem you would write).

due 19 February

Week 8:

Which topic is most in need of review?
How did Maxwell happen on electromagnetic waves? If you had been he, what would you have thought?
If I were a professor, what problems on this week’s topics would I assign to determine if my students understood the material? Give a specific example (of a specific problem you would write).

due 26 February 2004

Week 9:

Why can light be considered both a particle and a wave? Explain how this could possibly be.
Evaluate how your labs this quarter have helped or hurt you in your understanding of physics.
There are a lot of evaluations to fill out at the end of the quarter. Is there anything you’d like to tell me that you haven’t or add to the evaluations you have done or will do?
How may we detect the presence of charged particles? Give me examples of methods one could use to accomplish this detection.
If I were a professor, what problems on this week’s topics would I assign to determine if my students understood the material? Give a specific example (of a specific problem you would write).

due 4 March 2004

Week 10:

What topic is now an urgent need for review?
Why was it reasonable to discuss scattering, accelerators, and detectors this week? What commonalities are there in these topics? Explain.
Distinguish the regimes of impact parameter in their effects on the projectile and the target.
If I were a professor, what problems on this week’s topics would I assign to determine if my students understood the material? Give a specific example (of a specific problem you would write to test that understanding).

due 11 March 2004

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