I held two office hours on Tuesday, January 10th. Three students attended these hours for help with Physics 1. One student stayed for the entire duration, and we worked on problem-solving strategies for the homework problems, specifically for the second half of the homework. In addition, we reviewed some of the material in the lecture videos on units and uncertainty. The other two students came as a pair, and I aided them in working through setting up problems 8 and 9 from the homework. Additionally, we worked on the best ways to enter values and expressions into the homework system.
My other office hour was held on Friday, January 13th. I helped five students with Physics 1 over the course of the hour, most of whom had questions on problems 7, 8, and 9 from the homework. I worked together with them in setting up the problems, as well as in reviewing the foundational concepts and strategies that are useful in completing these more challenging problems. Common things reviewed included vector addition concepts, vector components, and trigonometric relationships and functions. Finally, strategies for reading the homework problems and understanding the questions being asked, as well as for inputting final answers, were also reviewed with most students.
Overall, it seemed the common questions centered on the last half of the homework and involved concepts of vector addition, components of vectors and their relationship to resultant vectors, and trigonometric concepts.
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