Monthly Archives: October 2009

Exam, Blog points, PRS

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The exam grades are listed in OWL.  Letter grades will not be assigned until the end of the semester.

I have given you 1 point if you posted to the blog prior to exam one.  There are a few postings which I cannot attribute to specific students (did you know that there are four alyssa’s in the class?), so please send me another post so that I can figure out who you are.

PRS points will be fixed at the end of the semester.  I will drop the lowst 10%.  Then I will look to see if mechanical failures occurred, and whether fixing the points would affect your credit.

14. Friday, October 9, 2009

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Heat flow, Enthalpy
These are challenging concepts, so don’t slack on working the problems:

1. Read chapter 5 (223-229)
2. OWL due Sunday (5.4, 5.5, 5.6)
3. Nag has new hours for the CRC (Mon 6:30-7:30)
4. The exam results are available!

Here’s the lecture from today. See a gummy bear bite the dust…

Oct 9

Oct 9

13. Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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Energy, First law of thermodynamics, Specific heat capacity

1. Read Chapter 5 (209-222)
2. OWLs due Thursday (5.1, 5.2,5.3) and Sunday (5.4, 5.5,5.6)

Power outage?  Shmower outage.  here’s a brief movie of the slides that I would have used today, if power had been present.  Fortunately, I had several fireworks for fun.  I hope that the use of chalk was not too bewildering – it is weird to go back to a one-color format of teaching…

Oct 7 quickie

Oct 7 quickie