Week of September 5th

Although it was only a four day week this week, I had all three of my office hours. While my first hour on Tuesday was uneventful due to the lack of students, I was lucky enough to have someone come in during my two hours of Thursday office hours. She was having trouble with vector addition homework problems, so I went over step by step of how to break down vectors into their X and Y components to easily add them together. This really seemed to click with her and improve her conceptual understanding of exactly what a vector was. She was then able to do all of her homework problems correctly. I advised her to go back and do similar problems from the book or read the vector component section if she ever felt uncomfortable with vectors in the future.