Last-minute things for the competition

Last minute preparations and information ....

Things: Tomorrow, I will bring the following items, at least:

• USB extension cable
  
• tape measure (verify ceiling height, etc)
  
• camera
• soldering iron (sensor repairs)
  
• stopwatch (elapsed time between shots)
  
• target

What to bring: The launcher (duh), position sensor, and the computer running your calculations. If you need a computer for tomorrow, you'd better let me know soon. Like right now.

Press: It is not clear if press will come or not - they won't know themselves until the last minute. They have been invited, so we'll see what happens. If they do show up, it would be nice if a few of you were a bit early to the competition so they can ask you a few questions. Obviously this is optional, but the basic point is, 'show up early, and there is a chance you'll be interviewed.'

Visitors: There are going to be a number of random visitors tomorrow. Pay them no mind, go on about your business :-)

Location: Shelby L107. This is not the same as 107, a lecture hall you may have had classes in.

Directions: from the rotunda entrance, go left. Continue down the hallway until you reach the breezway. Go through it and into the next hallway. At the dead end, turn right. L107 is on your right. I will have a few signs up to guide you.

Timing: We might be done by 12:30, it is hard to predict. We will not go beyond the normal class period.

Grading-related: Remember that you need to turn in your source for the trajectory calculations. Please try to do this by the end of Friday.

Ok ... that is all I can think of right now. The contest will be pretty relaxed, but we will have to be efficient - with 5 teams and multiple shots, it will take a while.

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Quiz 8 & 9 solutions

Well, answers anyway. Almost everyone aced quiz 9 (thermo). Quiz 8 was not quite so great ... but I think now the answers will be clear to you.

Moodle update coming shortly (give me like 30min) so you can see your quiz results.

Exam III solutions

Here you go. Let me know if you find any errors.

Physics Majors event

Just FYI, since a number of you are physics majors ...

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All PHYSICS MAJORS!!!

Do you actually know other physics majors?? Yeah, that's what I thought. So come to the meet AND greet.

FREE FOOD! Yes, completely free. In fact, it will even be surrounded by nerds. So come.

DETAILS:
Who - YOU....hopefully...
What - Meet the other people who share your uniquely awesome interests
When - FRIDAY, as in THIS FRIDAY of dead week. which is May 1st, just fyi. 3:00-5:00pm
Where - Room 109 in Gallalee (obviously)
Why - because Tara and Ted were upset that we didn't know all of you

So, it'll be awesome, especially once you get there :)

-Your Fellow Physics Majors, Tara and Ted - and kind of the Society of Physics Students, kinda -

Old PH105 Exams

I put up some old PH105 exams for you to look at - some with answers only, some with solutions.

They are easy problems compared to what you've been doing, but good practice nonetheless. For the final it will be advantageous to be able to quickly solve a larger number of straightforward problems, as opposed to our usual exams where you have to solve only a few tough problems.

Tuesday's class

Today we'll go over some review questions, and spend an hour or so practicing for the rocket competition on Thursday.

Also, I had completely forgotten about Exam III solutions until one of you reminded me in the comments ... I'll get on that and have something for you by Thursday at the latest, along with solutions to the example problems from last week. The end of the sememster is proving a bit more painful than expected, so I am a bit behind ... apologies.

I have put up some very silly flyers to advertise our little contest. If you feel so inclined, you can do some of your own advertising as well. A number of faculty and staff members have expressed an interest in coming to watch the competition, mainly because they think what you've been up to is very neat. Probably, they are jealous.

(I may have mentioned this to the University Relations office. There might be local press.)

Finally, I'll post directions to L107 Shelby soon. You can find a handy map here. Note that you are going to L107, which is not the same as plain old 107. (Grab the 'emergency evacuation plan' map, it is actually much clearer. And possibly quite relevant, one never knows.)