Tips for success:
• You must bring an electronic device to class to answer in-class problems
• Perusall is due every Sunday night. You have to put online comments about the assigned
textbook reading and reply to classmates’ comments for marks. PRO TIP: if you have trouble coming up with questions, answer your classmates’ questions instead. Pro TIP: the diagrams are good places to ask questions.
• Mastering Physics are online problem sets that are due every week. Carve out time to work on these. Sometimes they can be challenging.
• • Yay there’s no lab for this class! (At least when I took this course Sept-Dec 2015). However, you have a test almost every week during tutorial.Weekly tests are not hard and help you keep up with material.
• Exams: you do the exam individually first and then you and three classmates do the exam
again together as a group. I enjoyed working in groups because I like sharing knowledge to
create a solution together.
• Learning Catalytics is PHYS 117’s answer to Clicker questions. A question is projected onto
the screen and you answer it. What I love is that we first answer ourselves and then we discuss
with the people around us and then answer again.
• Piazza is well-regulated by physics TAs and professors so you get good answers promptly!
• Office hours are both in person and online (Skype)
Lots of
• Collaborating with other students to learn! I love this!
• Online assignments & even online office hours
Suggested professors: Dr Simon Bates and Dr Carl Michael
Follow