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If you wake up feeling sick, do not come to class. Please seek medical assistance and focus on recovering.
For more information about absences due to illness, see What do I do if I am sick?


Announcements

3/22/2024


We will hold the Physics 101 final exam at the CBTF May 2-May 6. The CBTF staff are working on making more exam reservations available. If you do not have a reservation yet please wait a little bit. We will make sure that everyone is able to take their final exam.


Week 11 (3/25-29): Congratulations on completing Exam 2! We will import grades into the gradebook on Monday or Tuesday.

Here is a summary of our schedule and deadlines this week:

  • Class Meetings
    • Lectures 18 and 19
    • Discussion 10/Quiz 7
    • Prelab/Lab 6
  • Online assignments
    • [smartPhysics] Prelectures and Checkpoints 18 and 19
    • [smartPhysics] Homework 9 is due at 8am on Thursday, March 28
  • Action items
    • Check in with your TA or Professor Ansell with any after-exam questions
    • Make your Final Exam reservation on PrairieTest
    • Look into ways to view the total solar eclipse on Monday April 8. To facilitate travel to the path of totality, Lecture 22 will be given as an asynchronous video lecture.

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Registering After the First Day of Classes

If you registered after the first day of classes but before the 10th day of classes, you will not be penalized for assignments or class activities that happened before you were registered. It is your responsibility to make sure you get appropriate credit by doing the following:



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Getting Started in Physics 101

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Formula Sheet

Excused Absences Application

Queue for Office Hours

Schedule with lecture notes and slides, discussion problems, etc


Course Components Summary

Lecture

We will be using iClicker for participation and bonus points during lecture. You may use physical iclickers or the iClicker Cloud Student app. (more information about setting up iClicker)

Homework

You can access the content at https://smart.physics.illinois.edu/ and you have full access for the first two weeks free of charge.  Sometime in the first two weeks you will need to pay for access by purchasing a code through the UIUC bookstore.  Details of how to pay for access are available via pdf.

Discussion

Students must be on time and prepared for discussion. Students arriving more than 15 minutes late for discussion will receive a grade of 0% on the discussion group assignment of the day and will not be permitted to take the quiz.

Laboratory

Please review the required materials list to see what you need.

Students must be on time and prepared for labs. All lab sections take place in person in 4018 Campus Instructional Facility.

Exams

Excused Absences

 

Academic Integrity

Use of AI Tools

This course permits you to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as chatbots, text generators, paraphrasers, summarizers, or solvers, to get guidance on assignments except for quizzes and exams, as long as you do so in an ethical and responsible manner. Essentially, you can think of these tools as ways to help you learn but not to entirely create work for assignments like discussion problems, prelabs and labs, and James Scholar Projects. AI is more like your tutor or TA, not a replacement for your independent thinking.

This means that you must:

You are accountable for any mistakes or errors made by the AI tool. Do not rely on the AI tool to produce flawless or correct results. Always check and edit the output before submitting your work. If you discover any inaccuracies or inconsistencies in the output after submission, notify the instructor immediately and correct them as soon as possible.

Using AI tools in an unethical or irresponsible manner, such as copying or paraphrasing the output without citation or transparency, using the output as your own work without verification or integration, or using the output to misrepresent your knowledge or skills, is considered a violation of Academic Integrity in Physics 101. If you have any questions about what constitutes ethical and responsible use of AI tools, please consult with the instructor before submitting your work.