PHY 140Y - Foundations of Physics
Home Page for the 2000 Spring Term

Information Final Exam and Grades Lecture Notes Tutorials Problem Sets Tests Archive

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PHY 140Y SPRING TERM - INFORMATION


PHY 140Y FINAL EXAM RESULTS AND GRADES

The final exam has been graded and preliminary grades for PHY140Y have been prepared. The
histogram of the final exams show that the mean grade for the final exam was 60%.

Preliminary final grades for PHY140Y have been prepared, and are available here. A histogram of the final grades show that the course average for those students writing the final exam is about 69%. Although these grades are not yet official, they are the grades reported to the Faculty as of 17 May 2000. r

Please contact either Pekka Sinervo or Kim Strong if you have any questions about your grades.


PHY 140Y SPRING TERM - LECTURE NOTES

I will be providing write-ups of the notes that I base my lectures upon. These will be provided in weekly sets, typically one or two weeks after I have given the lectures.

Since I don't expect to be able to prepare them in a tidy format much in advance, I don't think we will be able to arrange for reproduction by Scholar House Productions as we did for the fall term overheads.


PHY 140Y SPRING TERM - TUTORIAL PROBLEMS

There will be twelve sets of tutorial questions in the Spring term, following the same format that we used for the twelve tutorials in the Fall term. These are intended to help you apply the lecture material to solving problems, and will not be marked.

They will be handed out in lectures during the week prior to when they will be reviewed in the tutorials. This will allow you to try solving the problems on your own first.

During the TA strike, I will be handing out the solutions to the Discussion questions on the Monday of the week that the tutorials would have been held. In any event, solutions will be posted on this web site as they become available.


PHY 140Y SPRING TERM - PROBLEM SETS

There will be four problem sets in the Spring term. These will consist of 8 to 10 questions: 50% will be awarded for making a reasonable attempt at all problems and 50% will be awarded for a selected 3 or 4 of the problems. Marks will be given for workings and units, as well as for final answers. The problem sets will be handed out in class on Tuesdays (Jan. 11, Jan. 25, Feb. 8 and Mar. 7), and they will be due in class on the second Tuesday thereafter ( i.e., Jan. 25, Feb. 8, Mar. 7 and Mar. 21). They will be marked by your tutor and will be handed back in your tutorial session on the Monday or Tuesday immediately after the Tuesday due date. You may hand the problem sets in late to Prof. Sinervo (room MP 323/324) and incur a late penalty of 5 marks/day (which also applies to weekend days!). Late problem sets will not be accepted after they have been returned to other students, so the absolute deadline for problem sets is 1:00 PM on Mondays in room MP 323/234

PHY 140Y SPRING TERM - TESTS

There will be one test in the Spring term. It will consist of some short answer questions (definitions, explanations) and some calculations (similar to questions in the problem sets and tutorials). There will not be any multiple choice questions. There will be a limited choice of questions. Marks will be given for workings and units, as well as for final answers. Calculators (preferably non-programmable) may be used.

Term test 3 will be closed book - a short aid sheet will be provided. No other aids are allowed.

You can find more information about Term Test 3 here. The actual term test and the answers are:



PHY 140Y SPRING 1999 - ARCHIVE

Here are the problem sets and tests from the Spring 1999 term. The questions listed in the problem sets refer to the Second Edition (1995) of Physics with Modern Physics by Wolfson and Pasachoff, which is available on short term loan in the Physics and Gerstein Libraries. You may also find the two test library web sites useful, not just for PHY 140...

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Last updated 17 April 2000.