Note on the Textbook for this Course:

Although there is no required textbook for this course, I Strongly Recommend that you buy the text for the course you plan to take in the future. Having the textbook will give you an added reasource for the class and help you begin to get familar with the book. For physics 121 the textbook is: Physics (6th Edition by Cutnell & Johnson). For physics 141 the textbook is: Fundamentals of Physics (6th Edition by Halliday, Resnick and Walker) If you do not want to spend lots of money on a textbook now, I recommend that you at least pick up College physics (9th Edition in the Schaum's series) This paperback is less than $17 in the Parkland bookstore in the physics section.

Course Components:

• LECTURES: Lectures will be held online. You may read them at your own pace, but you will have to answer some "lecture" questions. There is a deadline for finishing the lectures each week This aspect of the course is worth 10% of the grade and essential to learning physics.
• HOMEWORK: you must work out and submit these on-line problems each week; some of these problems will be "interactive examples" with extensive help sequences (although only the initial question is for credit) and others will be more traditional problems; these homework questions will be graded for completeness and correctness; you may submit answers as much as you like without penalty; at the end of the semester, each week's problems will be weighted equally and will be worth 20% of your grade.
• QUIZZES: every week you must submit your answers to these online quizzes to evaluate your progress for the week; these quizzes will be graded for completeness and correctness; you can work on the quizzes throughout the week and change your answers as many times as you like but only your final submission will be graded; in addition you will not know if you are right or wrong until after the grading deadline; at the end of the semester, each week's quizzes will be weighted equally and the lowest two quizzes over the semester will be dropped; the quizzes will count for 15% of your grade.
• WEEKLY DISCUSSION: You will need to attend one weekly Discussion session. Sessions are two hours long and start at 11:00Am on Tuesdays (Section 291), 10:00AM(Section 290)or 1:00PM(Section 292) on Thursday. Sessions will be held in room M126. In theses sessions, you will rework any problems that you miss on the quiz and work on some new problems.
• FINAL EXAM: The final exam will occur during the Discussion session during the last week of class. All exams are in M126.
• GENERAL: no late work is accepted; after the scoring deadlines you cannot make-up any work.

Grades:

• 10% - Lectures
• 15% - Homework
• 15% - Discussion Problems
• 20% - Quizzes
• 40% - Final Exam