Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

On the afternoon of the third day of classes for the fourth week of the second term, I had my mechanics lecture session.

This time I gave them more examples of uniform acceleration in one dimension, just to see that they were very clear on the topic.

I also returned their exercise notebooks, their group lab notebooks and the results of their first quiz.

For those who got a score of less than sixty percent, this time I required them to solve several problems on the topic that were in a book available in the library, which is unfortunately not the same as our main text book. But it is the only one for which I have the complete solutions manual.

Like I had mentioned I think several terms ago, the solutions manual for the textbook that is available for the students to obtain one copy each from the bookstore had an accompanying solutions manual, photocopied at that – but at least provided by the distributors themselves – for only a quarter of the problems in the book.

It’s a good thing that two of the authors of that book also worked with a fourth author on another book, which has a lot of the same problems. I don’t know what is the legality of that, but the solutions manual of the second book is more complete. It’s just a lot of time is taken up referring and comparing the two books for similar problems, then looking up the solutions in the second book.

Anyway, what I wrote on the board is that the problem set was required for those who got less than sixty percent in the quiz. Fortunately for this group of students, there was no grade greedy person who, even though he or she already passed the quiz, asked if it was still possible to submit the problem set for extra credit.

I also scheduled their first long exam, with twice the number of points as the quiz, as being at the start of the sixth week of classes.

One student asked if there would still be another topic added to the coverage of that exam and I said yes, the one we would discuss on the fifth week of classes, not that unrelated to the previous topic and still under uniform acceleration in one dimension.

I also returned their lab group notebooks to them for them to fulfill their assignments of the third lab activity, Graphs and Equations. There have been no questions on how to solve it though, so I have some dread in looking at what their submissions would look like at the start of the fifth week.

Session 797 got higher than sixty percent score in the last quiz, and doesn’t have to pass the problem set. Class dismissed.