Week of 12/2

This week is the last week before the final exam. No one came to my office hour.

Week of 12/2

During the week I didn't have that many people in my office hours until the last day.  For one student. we went over new concepts regarding waves of light and frequency.  Another student came in with questions on the last exam.  We went over all the questions he had missed and just talked about the right answer and how to arrive there.

Week of December 2

This week I had people come to all of my office hours. I received questions on the last test they took that they had just recently gotten back as well as questions about waves which will be on their final exam.

week of 12/2

I had 4 Students attend office hours this week. Their questions revolved around waves and sound with most being about understanding harmonics. I also ran through with the students the topics we covered this semester in preparation for the final and provided the students with tips about the final and how to prepare.

week 12/2

Most of my office hours was empty and class was cancelled the day before. On Tuesday, a lot of students in class asked me how best to study for the exam. They were very concerned after exam 3 and I spent a lot of time just talking to them. Hopefully they stay calm and do well!

week 11/18

There were more questions regarding torque and springs this week. There was a question from physics 2 as well regarding magnetism. I used a part of my office hours to go through a few of the text book problems to have some more practice problems worked out for any students who want some before the exam.

week 11/11

No one came from my section, but I tried to assist with this one question on springs from their homework and there were questions on torque.

week 11/4

This week no one attended office hours. I anticipate more questions next week about torque and forces.

week 10/28

Worked on conceptual problems and answered a few questions that some students had asked me at the end of class the previous day (I had to run to a meeting that day, but said I could explain it to them at office hours).

Week of 12/2

This week was filled mostly with questions surrounding differences between longitudinal and transverse waves, applications of the sinuosoidal wave equation, and construction of snapshot and history graphs. Students also asked me for advice on studying for the final exam.

Week of 12/2

This is the last week before finals, there were quite a few different units that were covered at once such as springs, standing waves and pipes, so the class was pretty fast paced. I did have one student come to my office hours Friday, I was able to help her with a couple homework problems relating to historic vs snapshot graphs for waves, as well as with thermal energy transfer.

Week of 11/18

This was the week of the 3rd exam, and while no one showed up to my office hours proper I was able to help a couple of students privately right before the exam, specifically questions relating to angular kinetic energy which seems like one of the units people seem to be struggling with.

Week of 11/11

This week while nobody did show up to my office hours the professor did go over quite a lot regarding angular momentum and energy, so I did help quite a bit during the lecture.

Week of 11/4

This week was relatively quiet, during my office hours nobody showed up since the second exam recently passed, though I do anticipate more as the third exam approaches. And I was able to help quite a bit during office hours.

Week of 12/2

No one came to my office hours and the professor cancelled one of the lectures. I will be available to any students who want to review before their final/go over the practice problems I created.

week of 12/02

No students. I have communicated with the instructor to host additional office hours for last minute questions the night prior to the final exam.

Week of 12/2

This week 3 people attended my office hours. The first day a student had questions about a previous exam question. We reviewed it and I helped explain the concepts of the questions and clarify his mistakes. The next day two people attended and they had questions from Sapling HW that we reviewed. They had mainly conceptual questions and asked about the best ways to prepare for the final.

Week of 12/2/19

One student came to my Monday office hour. She asked some questions about phase difference in interference.

Week of 12/2

No students came into my office hours this week. I submitted my final lecture summaries and Hw solutions. I also am scheduled to host a review session next week and have been preparing topics and specific questions to go through during that session.

Week of 12/2/19

No one attended my office hours again this week. However we had our final exam. So I walked around and answered students questions when they had them.

Week of 12/2

No students in my office hours this week. When I was a UTA in another course, there were always a few students who came regularly to ask questions about the course. This semester, for whatever reason, those types of students were absent from my UTA experience. Lecture ensures that I am still interacting with students, but my office hours have been very quiet throughout the whole semester. Overall, I have still enjoyed the moments I had to work with the handful of students that did visit.

Week of 11/18

A quiet week as a UTA. There was an exam, and surprisingly, I saw no students during my office hours. Curious to see if I am more busy in the following weeks.

12/2

I had one student come into my office hours. I clarified the concepts of latent heats for state changes and the relationship between heat and temperature change to her.

Week of 11/18

This week one person came to my office hour, and I helped her with her homework problems.

Week of 11/11

This week two people came to my office hour. I helped them with their homework problems. I also taught them how to calculate torque/moment by using the cross product.

Week of 11-18

I had 7 students come in and we discussed the concepts of torque as it relates to a lever arm and rotational motion. We spent a lot of time on the yo-yo problem from the practice exam and considering the different scenarios we could see.

Week of November 18

This week, no one attended my office hours. They had an exam on Monday, so they have not learned much new content yet. I expect more people next week with the final approaching.

Week of 11-18

I had 12 students attend office hours this week asking questions relating to their 3rd exam. The topic we spent the most time on was torque and understanding what radius to pick in a problem and how to us the concept of a lever arm to simplify certain problems. We also focused on how toques caused by static friction cause rotations and which way this force acts depending on the direction of rotation.

Week of 11/18

No one came to office hours this week since they had an exam Monday and Break was upon us.

Week of 11/18

I had no students in my office hours this week.

Week of 11/18/19

There were three students who came into office hours this week.  The first two students had last minute questions regarding torque and springs.  I helped them do one of the book problems and explained a concept about torque.  The last student came into office hours, but they were in physics 2.  There were no other TA's, so I decided to help her.  We worked on problems regarding magnetism.

Week of 11/18

This week nobody attended my office hours. They had their third exam on Monday so not much new material was learned. I am expecting students the week before finals to review.

Week of 11/17/2019

No one showed up in my office hour this week. I work through their homework, which is pretty easy. Probably no one needs help with them.

Week of 11/17

This week I held extended office hours at night in the library to answer remaining questions regarding exam material. Students came in and asked questions about Lenz's law and refraction. I also helped a student in one of my office hours figure out lenses and sign conventions for the thin-lens equation.

Week of 11/18

No students came to my office hours this week.
Students have asked for more practice problems throughout the semester, so I created a worksheet with MC and short answers (involving Kinematics, Forces, and Equilibrium) based on my past physics exams (I changed the numbers in the problems though). Professor Good approved of these questions and will post them on CourseWeb as an extra resource for students.

Week of 11/17

Helped students with problems regarding to conservation of energy, centripetal force, buoyant force, and oscillation.

Week of 11/11/19

This week, a student came in with a question on springs.  We worked through the problem together and got the homework question right.  There was another last minute questions about torque in general so I explained to her how I thought of torque and showed her how I would go through problems.

Week of 11/11/19

Monday office hour cancelled, and had an extend office hour on Thursday. No one showed up in my office hours.

Week of 11/11/19

No one attended my office hours this week, but I continued to assist students in lecture with questions the had regarding the questions presented to them.

Week of 11/11

This week in office hours was busy since my students were preparing for their third exam in the class. Many questions were raised about torque and understanding simple harmonic motion - a key theme in explanations this week was connecting old concepts with new topics. For example, applying some of the same kinematics equations from 1D and 2D motion was integral to solving certain rotational kinematics problems: the framework of the equations was the same but variables were slightly different. Similarly, applying concepts of objects speeding up and slowing down to tracing simple harmonic motion was essential too.

Week of 11/11

This week I finished preparing lecture summaries and practice problems for my class's upcoming exam. I helped a student with HW problems relating to refraction and critical angles.

Week of November 11

This week, I had many students come to my office hours. They have an exam on Monday, so many of them wanted to go over the practice sapling problems as well as go over concepts. Many of them were having trouble with spring concepts.

Week of November 4

This week, I had two people come to my office hours. One student wanted to go over sapling homework, while the other wanted to double check that she new the concepts mentioned in class.

I apologize for the late submission this saved as a draft and never got published last week.

Week of 11/11

This week I had three students come in with questions about the wileyplus.  In order to explain simple harmonic motion I aimed primarily at an energetic line of reasoning, and it seemed to help many students because it incorporated something they already new how to use.

Week of 11/11

This week I had 3 students in my office hours. All three of them had questions about physics problems involving rotational kinematics. One of the major concepts I noticed they struggled with was the translation of linear kinematic values into rotational kinematic ones. I explained to them that what helped me a lot with those problems (when I took physics) was to think of a rotational analog to every kinematic value I could. It was also helpful to have formulas used to convert between linear and rotational kinematic values.

Week of 11/11

No students came to my office hours, which makes sense because they just had an exam. The average was 63%. UTA's discussed creating some practice problems for students so they can prep for the final exam.

Week of 11/11

This week I had nobody attend my office hours. I arrived a few minutes late on Tuesday due to the snowstorm, so I am unsure if somebody came and left. However, the rest of the week during my other office hours nobody came. The 3rd exam is on 11/18 next week so I am surprised nobody attended. Usually, I have people attend office hours before exams previously. I helped students with questions during in-class concept checks.

Week of 11/11

Unfortunately, I missed lecture on Tuesday for the second week in a row due to public transportation. I commute from Children's Hospital to Pitt campus on the 5:30pm 93 route bus. Every so often, the bus comes 45 minutes late, where I don't come back to campus until 6:40pm. 

This week during office hours, I had one visitor. We had a good conversation about the course overall. As the semester comes to close, it's nice to talk to students about how they enjoyed the course overall. 

Week of 11/4

This week, I missed one lecture due to delayed public transportation. Because of this, my interactions with students were highly reduced. I had no visitors during office hours.

During the lecture I was able to attend, I was able to answer a few questions and generally help the students. Overall a much more quiet week as a Physics UTA.

Week of 11-11

I had no students attend office hours this week. I expect to see more students in office hours next week before their 3rd exam next week.

week of 11/10

Help a student from another professor with a sapling problem regarding to conservation of energy.

Week of 11/4

One person showed up for some induced current questions

Week of 4/11/19

No one attended my office hours last week. However, I continued to assist people in lecture and answered questions that they had based on questions in class.

Week of 11/4/19

This week I had two students come in with questions about the Wiley Plus. Specifically, questions about rotational energy, and its relationship to linear kinetic energy.

Week of 11/4

This week no one attended office hours.  In class, students learned about torque and forces on a spring. I was able to answer one question in class about velocity and acceleration while the spring was moving.

Week of 11/4

This week three came to my office hour. People had problems with torque (moment). They had a hard to find lever arms when they went over the lecture note/ did homework. So, I taught them again about how to find it. Some people also do not understand the cross product. They can only calculate the torque when r and F are perpendicular to each other.

Week of 11/4

This week in office hours, I received many questions regarding torque and relating definitions of torque to definitions of work. I had to work to help students draw connections between rotational kinematics and "regular" kinematics definitions of work and energy to help them realize they weren't necessarily working with entirely new concepts, but rather old concepts in a new world. Other questions involved understanding springs and the relationship between acceleration + velocity at different time points in simple harmonic motion.

Week of 11/4

This week nobody attended my office hours. The exam is in a little over one week so I am expecting more people next week. I helped students with in-class concept checks.

Week of 11/4

I had 4 students attend office hours this week. All the questions the students had involved understanding conservation of angular momentum. Students struggled with differentiating between when to treat an object as a point mass or another object. Students also struggled  to see the radius from a point mass to the rotation point. With pictures and lots of problem solving I think the students left better equipped to solve similar problems.

week of 11/03

Exam 3 was this week. A few students came in for help during the office hours and the help desk hours. After speaking with the students and the instructor about the problem of lack of practice materials, I am planning on selecting few representative problems and make a practice exam for the final. The practice exam will be looked over by the instructor to avoid any misleading from the focus of the finals.

Week of 11/4

This week two students came in to discuss a recitation worksheet involving Lenz's Law.

Week of 11/3

No one came to my office hours this week. The class has an exam, so I helped the instructor proctor the exam. Earlier in the week, one student did ask me how to solve a problem- she just made an algebra error.

Week of 11/3

This week I could not attend my office hours because I was sick.

Week of 10/28

This week no one attended office hours.  In class, they started learning about torque, but no questions were answered.

Week of 10/28

This week no one came to my office hour.

Week of 10/28/19

This week I had many students come in asking questions about torque, specifically a problem for Sapling, about lady bugs on a stick. Some big things I went over were when something is in static equilibrium, how to "build" a rotational inertia for a special object, and how to determine direction of torques.

Week of 10/28/19

No one attended my office hours this week. However, I helped students in class with questions that they had based on in lecture activities.

Week of 10/28

One student came to my Thursday session for homework questions. There will be an exam next week.

Week of 10/28/19

This week, I had a visitor leading up to the exam. Although visitors to my office hours have been sparse, it is still nice to help the students who do come. As per usual, the bulk of my interactions came during lecture. We began looking into circular motion after their second exam, heading into the last portion of the course.

Week of 10/21

For this week, I helped students during lecture leading up to their exam. No students came to office hours. It has been about a month since the last student has came to office hours. I am not sure how to change this.

Week of 10/28

No one came to office hours this week unfortunately, which either means they understand everything that is being covered in class right now or have not had the time to form and ask questions.

Week of 10/28

This week was relatively quiet since the exam was just had, I was able to help one student alongside the other TA during my office hours with a question relating to elastic collisions that was particularly confusing.

Week of 10/21

This week there was an exam so I did have a few people reach out to me outside of my office hours asking a few questions from the homework relating to some of the questions on the exam, specifically spring forces and kinetic energy. Aside from that one student did show up to my office hours for clarification on some of the concepts gone over in the lecture relating to kinetic energy for clarification.

Week of 10/28

No one came to my office hours. In class, they learned about angular momentum.

Week of 10/28

This week, I had one student come to my office hours. She was confused about the relationship between impulse and momentum. I explained that impulse is the change in momentum and force times a change of time. She understood the concepts best when I used examples like trampolines and car crashes.

Week of 10/28

This week nobody attended my office hours. The exam was just last week. I helped a few students with in-class concept checks.

Week of October 28

This week, I had one student attend my office hours on Friday needing help on momentum Sapling homework. I helped explain to him how to utilize conservation of momentum by setting initial velocities multiplied my masses equal to the impulse of the system, or the objects combined final velocity and mass. I expect more students to come in the upcoming weeks as the third exam approaches.

Week of 10-28

This week I had 6 students attend office hours this week. All the problems we worked on involved applications of torque. I assisted students in problem setup for the most part. Students just needed to see and be guided through more problems.

Week of 10/28

This week two students came in on Wednesday to review some questions they had on the exam that was just graded. We also worked together on the new HW set that is due on Sunday. I forgot my folder with my sign-in sheet at home, but these students come in almost every week now.

week 10/21

Two people attended office hours next week. We mostly discussed the upcoming exam and how to prepare early. One student has been there multiple times, so it was great seeing her again. We went over old exam questions and extra textbook problems relating converting between radians/rotation and degrees.

Week of 10/21

This week I held a review session for the second exam, along with helping students review concepts and practice problems in my office hours. Many students needed clarification on applying Kirchoff's Laws and the right hand rules.

week of 10/27

Two students came in on Monday. We discussed topics of work, conversation of momentum, impulse,  conservation of energy, and homework questions related to them.

10/21/19

I had many students come in with questions from their exam review because students were preparing for their exam on Friday.  We walked through a couple of questions concerning energy, circular motion, and momentum.  We talked about dividing problems up into "special times" to do them as a system of problems.

Week of 10/21/19

This week, we began learning about circular motion. No one attended my office hours, but I helped people in class on certain questions.

Week of 10/21

Two people attended office hours this week.  We went over general test questions regarding kinetic energy before their exam.  In class, there were no questions to be answered.

Week of 10/20

One student showed up in Thursday session for a calculus question for physics homework.

Week of 10/20

This week, one person came to my office hour (although she is in PHYS 0110). I helped her with some quiz problems and concept check problems.

Week of 10/20

This week, no students showed up to my office hours.

Week of 10/20

This week was very quiet with office hours because the students took their second exam on Monday. The only student I worked with on Tuesday was one of my regulars studying for her MCAT. We worked through understanding the wording of problems and thinking about how to tackle problem solving with passage-based questions.

Week of 9/21

This week on Monday was the second exam. Nobody attended my office hours this week since there  was not much material taught.

Week of October 21

This week, no one attended my office hours because they had an exam on Monday, so they have not learned much new content. I expect more people next week.

Week of 10-21

I had 6 students attend office hours this week. Students questions revolved around collisions. Since I had a large amount of students in my office hours at one time and all with similar questions I decided to facilitate peer discussion. I thought it was beneficial as the students came to understand the topics as they work through them together 

Week of 10/20

Unfortunately, I had to miss my office hours due to an illness. I let the instructor know as well as a student who frequently comes to my office hours.

week of 10/20

No students from Dr. Good's class.

Helped two students from Dr. Broccio's class with Pulley problems and conservation of energy.

Week of 10/14

This week one person came to my office hour. I helped her with her homework problems and some concepts.

Week of 10/14/19

This week, my interactions with students were exclusively during lecture. No students visited me during my office hours. I was able to answer a few questions during class and help synthesize the material covered. Hopefully office hours will pick up the following week. The course seems more difficult when I took the course, however, the students seem to be holding up well.

Week of 10/14/20

We had our first exam in the class on Wednesday. I helped proctor the exam and answered questions that any of the students had while taking the exam. No one came into my office hours for help however. Additionally, I think the test went well for everyone.

Week of 10/14/19

I had five students come in with questions about energy and work.  I showed them a method of solving these equations that I found helpful while solving these problems. All this entails is writing out all the forms of energy at the beginning and end of the problem and solving for whatever is leftover, not going to zero.  I found that this simplifies problems a lot, and the students seemed to believe so as well.

Week of 10/14

This week no one attended office hours.  In class, I helped clarify some concept checks about work.

No one came to Monday and Tuesday office hour. Thursday office hour moved to next Monday

Week of 10/14

This week no one has showed up to my office hours, however we have been getting more into work and conservation of energy in class, so during lectures I was able to help somewhat during clicker questions, and concepts in class. I expect a little bit more traffic next week with the second exam coming up.

Week of 10/7

This week during my Monday lecture, I had one student come up to my office hours to get further clarification on some of the concepts and problems that we went over during the lectures, specifically involving static and kinetic friction. During lectures, some of the clicker questions got a little more difficult so I was able to help some students during class with those.

Week of 10/14

This was another busy week for office hours since the students have their second exam next Monday. Most of the questions this week revolved around understanding work and how different definitions can be related together to solve problems. Many students also had trouble understanding that work of an overall system can be different from work done by individual components/particular forces (e.g. work done by gravity, work done by friction, etc.).

Week of 10/7

This week was very busy with students coming in and asking questions about concept checks regarding centripetal force and angular motion. We also worked through understanding how tension can be an internal force in pulley problems. In addition to clarifying conceptual questions, I helped students work through some more challenging Sapling HW problems.

Week of 10/14

This week 3 students attended my office hours on my last day. They had questions about concepts taught in lecture and we went over the slides they had questions about. They also had questions about sapling problems and I helped them overcome their sticking points. During the lecture, I answered questions during in-class conceptual checks. Next week is the second exam and students are preparing for that.

Week of 10/13

No student.

Week of 10/7

This week there were many Physics 2 students during my individual office hours, so I tried to assist them. No students from my sections came to my office hours.

week of 10/14

A few students came in to discuss the exam they recently took. We went through the text book to find more problems they could practice with. I assisted them in identifying which problems would be fair on a test and which were beyond what we learned in class. I encouraged them to go to their professor's office hours as well to form a relationship as one student was interested in asking for a rec letter, but was unsure how to do so.

Week of 10-14

I had three students attend office hours this week. Energy conservation was a topic of discussion this week with most questions centering around the topic. I found that having the students breakdown the finial and initial conditions helped the students understand the problems. Conservation of momentum was also a confusing students but I think some of there confusion will fade when we start collisions.

Week of 10/14

This week I helped a student in Physics 1 understand work concepts in her homework. I also prepared HW solutions for my class, a lecture summary, and practice problems to help students prepare for the second exam that is coming up next Friday.

Week of 10/13

No one came to office hours or reached out to ask any questions. The students are still waiting to learn the results from Exam 2.

Week of 10/14

I had two students come to office hours this week. The first needed clarification on force diagrams involving tension and the relationship between work done by friction and change in kinetic energy of a moving object. The second had trouble understanding why Dr. Broccio set up certain equations the way he did. I explained where different variables came from and why he was able to set certain formulas equal to each other.

Week of 10/7/19

I had five students come in last week.  We worked on Sapling problems concerning work, particularly that one by spring forces. One student came in to go over his exam.  We discussed ways to study by doing practice problems and to make sure to get a good nights sleep before an exam. 

Week 10/7/19

No one attended my office hours during the week. But I continuned to assist the students sitting around me in class whenever questions were posted on the board during lecture. This week is the first and only midterm exam for the class. So I expect to see people in my office hours

week of 10.7

This week no one came to my office hour.

Week of 10/7

No one shows up in my office hour last week.

Week of 10/7/19

Another week without any students attending my office hours. Outside of lecture my interaction with students are limited. During lecture I am able to converse with more students about the material.

Week of 10/7/2019

This week I had two students attend office hours.  Both students had questions on their sapling homework assignments.  The first person asked about forces and problems dealing with forces with friction.  The main problem they has was about the coefficient of static friction.  We read over the answer for the question and I explained how each part worked.  The second student asked questions about circular motion.  Their problems were mainly on which values to use for each equations. 

week of 10/06

No student has shown up.

Exam 2 is on Thursday. I will be hosting an additional help desk hours at Benedum from 8:30 - 10 pm Wednesday (the night before exam) for last minute questions.

The review session was successful; many students showed up. We discussed concepts deriving from sample problems provided by the TAs regarding to the upcoming exam.

Week of 10/7

I had 3 students attend office hours this week and we worked on understanding work and when work done on an object is positive and negative. Outside of using pictures I found a quick revisit of vectors to be helpful in helping the students see the relationship.

Week of 10/7

This week, no students came to my office hours.

Week of 10-7

This week, I had two people attend my office hours Wednesday and Thursday. Both of them had questions on the circular motion and forces with friction sapling homework as well as some clarifications from the example problems done in lecture with a pulley system and a string connecting two blocks. I had no one attend my office hours on Friday.

Week of 10/7

This week 3 students came to my office hours. They had conceptual questions about examples given in lectures and also some questions from their Sapling homework. I helped them understand the questions from lecture and explained important concepts to understand. I worked with them to solve the questions they had from Sapling.

Week of 10/7

The 2nd exam for Physics 1 is this week. I had one student reach out to me about a problem presented in lecture. The concept she was confused about was friction and making a free body diagram. I told her how to approach the problem and she got the answer! Another student asked about general tips for studying and I told her to use the practice problems/read the concepts in the book. No one came to my office hours.

Week of 10/7

This week I had a student from my Physics 2 class come in again to review HW problems. She has decided to go through the HW with me each week, to try and stay ahead of the material. She also had a question regarding an exam problem, and I helped her understand her small mistake which resulted in her getting the wrong answer. I also helped a student in Physics 1 with a few HW problems on Sapling regarding friction and Newton's second law.

Week of 9/30/19

I didn't have any students attend my office hours. However, I helped some of my friends who are in physics 1 with a different professor with their sapling. It involved springs as well as work problems.

Week of September 30

Last week, I had students come to all three of my office hours. Most of the students came for help on sapling homework, but a few also had questions on things they learned in lecture as well as on some clarifications from the test they just got back. I think I will start getting more people at office hours because the first test did not go as well as they hoped.

Week of 9/30

This week I had one student in my office hours. She was confused about Newton's Third Law. She was wondering where the reaction forces to different action forces were coming from. I explained to her that if an object experiences a push or pull, that object will react with an equal and opposite force.

Week of 9/30

Unfortunately, last week was a lonely one. There were no students who wanted to visit me during my office hours.

Lecture on Tuesday went well as I was able to help a few students with a few of the in class problems. I was unable to attend lecture Thursday due to appointment at the Student Health center.

Overall, I hope to see more students in the coming weeks.

Week of 9/30

This week I had three students come in with questions about free-body diagrams, and work.  One student came in with a question concerning work done by static friction and I misspoke, saying that static friction does not do work.  While this is often true because static friction is static. In this case of a conveyor belt the static friction was doing work. As a result, she used her last attempt on her homework. I have been in touch with Dr. Nero about correcting this situation.

week of 9.30

This week no one attended my office hour.

Week of 9/30

No one attended office hours this week.  In class, there were questions asked about forces and I was able to guide the students to the right answer.

Week of 9/30

This week, a couple students and I worked through understanding frictional forces and how they are applied to forces problems, especially those involving an incline/ramp. Going through important derivations of variables such as acceleration or the normal force were important for students' understanding and ability to work through challenging Sapling problems.

Week of 10/30

One student came to my office hours! I helped her with 2D kinematics homework problems and explained why she got a few answers wrong. I also advised her to write her work more neatly so she wouldn't make simple errors.

Week of 9/23

No one did show up to my office hours this week, but in lieu of the first exam coming up I was able to individually help a couple people with some of the more difficult homework problems regarding 2-D kinematics outside of office hours.

Week of 9/30

So test have come back so I did have one student come to me getting help with a couple of the questions from the first Exams. I was able to help with one problem about two runners accelerating towards each other, and help her understand how to utilize the displacement formulas to find those answers, as well as for the other question about the fox and and the dog chasing each other on a 2-D plane.

Week of 9/30

This week nobody attended my office hours. I helped students during lecture to answer some in-class questions.

Week of 9-30

This week I had four students attend office hours. Three of the students game in asking questions about the same problem. The problem dealt blocks on incline with friction. I found the best way to simplify this problem was draw the interactions linearly. This helped the students see the system and the internal and external forces on the system.  

Week of Oct1

No one shows up in my office hour this week

Week of 9/30

This week I had a student come in for help with the new homework assignment. She was struggling with concepts regarding current and voltage. We also discussed the exam, since the scores were released by the professor this week.

Week of 9/23/2019

This week I had two students from class come in to review HW problems and recitation questions in preparation for the first exam. I also prepared HW solutions and practice problems that my professor posted on courseweb. I answered many last-minute questions over e-mail regarding content that was covered on the exam.

week of 09/29

No students. This week's lectures will be covering Newton's third law as well as tension and friction. After communicating with the instructor, a reminding email was sent out as well as the additional reminder slide at the beginning of the Tuesday lecture to ensure the students are provided with opportunities if they are seeking for help.

I am planning on making a practice exam for the students prior to exam II as I am a firm believer that an essential step to do well on physics is to have a lot of practice that requires manipulating equations and conceptually thinking. I will discuss with the instructor about this.

Week of 09/23/19

This week, I continued to help students in class. However, no one came to office hours again. I know a lot of students just took exams in other classes so I didn't think anyone was going to come into office hours.

Week 9/23

A few students came in to ask content questions and roughly half of them were from a different section than mine and had an exam that day. One of the girls said she would start coming to office hours more between this exam and the next so hopefully that meant I was helpful!

Week of 9.23.19

This week, I had my second visitor.
He came in with several questions about the material heading into their first exam. I was able to help him through the problem and explain the concepts without directly giving him the answer. It was enjoyable to help the student prepare for the exam, however, it would have nice to have helped more students.
I spoke with Corey briefly after the first exam about how to be more useful as a UTA. We discussed the idea of having a night office hour in lieu of attending the lectures, as we agreed the lectures moved quickly, making it difficult for me to thoroughly help during lecture. I have yet to propose the idea to Katie.

Week of 9/23

I had seven people come in on Tuesday, we discussed some of the concepts for the exam on Friday.  Specifically we went through how to solve a system of linked cars to find the tension in each rope, and how to solve for when two projectiles reach the same point.  I had three people come on Thursday before the exam to discuss similar topics.

Week of 9/23/19

No one attended office hours this week.  In class, they started learning about forces. 

Week of 9/22

No one showed up to my office hour this week. The first exam was on Wednesday.

Week 9-22

I had 15 student attend office hours this week and we worked on exam prep. I answered questions about topics that were to be tested on.  This topics included internal forces, forces on an incline, and relative motions. I focused in on problem set ups and approaches to get the students think on how to do problems on the exam. I explained that pictures and writing out givens are great starting points to a problem.

Week of 9/23

No one came to my office hour. The first exam is coming next week.

Week of 9/23

I did not have any students show up to my office hours this week.

Week of 9/23

This week, my class had an exam on Monday, so I did not receive any students from my class at my office hours. I did however help a physics 0111 student at my office hours on Friday with an electric field problem that was going to be on her exam that day, because I was a TA for a physics 0111 class last semester.

Week of 9/23

My students had their first exam this week and had a lot of feedback on how it went. I helped answer some tiny questions regarding vectors but otherwise had a pretty quiet week.

Week of 9/23

No one came to my office hours this week.

week of 9/22

The weekend before the exam I answered a student's email who had questions. This week nobody attended my office hours. During lectures, I helped a few students answering their questions about the in-class concept checks.

Week 09/22

No students attended.

Grade distribution on the first exam seems to be on the high end compares to other physics 1 courses according to the instructor. I have communicated with the instructor to send out a reminder for the UTA office hours. I am expecting more students to come to the office hours prior to the second exam.

Week of 9/16

Last week I helped one student with physics problems she was struggling with during MCAT prep and a student from Physics 1 with a kinematics-related HW problem. No students from my Physics 2 Section attended office hours, but I used the time to prepare practice problems, lecture summaries, and HW solutions to help students when studying for the upcoming first exam.

Week of 9/16/19

After several days of waiting, I finally was visited by a student from the class. I was able to help the student with some of the in class problems on kinematics, as well as some homework from the physics lab course.
The excitement of my first student was followed by a quiet rest of the week, where no other students came to the office hours. The lecture experience was standard through the week, where I walked around the classroom and answered questions.

Week of 9/16

No one attended my scheduled office hours this week, but during the one Wednesday lecture Dr. Broccio had a clicker based self assessment, in which I did help a few students with some of the more difficult problems. With the exam coming soon, I do expect a few more people to come to office hours.

Week of 9.16

This week two people came to my office hour with their homework problems. One of the common problems of them was that they cannot understand the conditions provided by the problems. After I drew a graph for them, they can solve the problems easily. In addition, people also met technical problems with Sapling, 

Week of 9/16

The major thing for this week is Gauss’s law, which is conceptually more difficult, but more easier in math. As long as I explain everything clearly, the homework and problems ares actually more easier. Next topic will be potential energy, which should still be the case.

Week of 9-15

I had no students attend office hours this week. Next week I expect to see more students with the first exam on Friday.

Week of 9/16

No one attended my office hours this week. But I did assist many of my friends in physics outside of office hours with studying because they have a text next week. Additionally, in lecture I helped some students out with some questions the professor presented on the board.

Week of 9/16/19

As the first exam approaches for Physics 1 classes, there has been more questions asked in class and I had one person attend office hours.  We worked on a kinematics problem.  We read the question and the student realized that she misread the question, so she worked on the problem and got back to me.  She was able to set up the problem and I helped her with the math. 

Week of 9/16

This week was a very busy week for office hours. Many students came in asking for advice on the upcoming exam, as well as help with Sapling questions regarding projectile motion. Although projectile motion is not going to be covered on this first exam, the students and I worked through a particularly challenging example and extracted some problem-solving strategies that can be applied to these kinds of kinematics questions.

Week of 9/16

So, this week was pretty interesting in Office hours. I had 2 students show up to my office hours. One student showed up on Wednesday, and one showed up on Thursday. The weird part was that neither of these students were for my section of Physics 0111. in fact, both of these students were not in the class. One was in PHYS 0175, and one was in PHYS 0110. I was surprised. I helped out the person in PHYS 0110 with her problems with regards to projectile motion. However, I could not help with every question that the student in PHYS 0175 had. Are people actually sure about who their respective UTAs are?

week 9/16

There were a few people at my office hours this week. We talked about study tips and strategies to learn. It's always great to know the short cut for the exam, but even better to understand the concepts to be able to orientate yourself in tricky application problems. Most people needed help with the online homework an a few were doing extra textbook problems. All were on vector problems.

Week of 9/16

Two students came to my office hours this week however only one day. They had issues with knowing how to start and I helped them by recognizing givens to recognize which equations are applicable and determining which concept is being applied in the problem so it is easier to determine which equations to use. We worked on some problems from Sapling practice that they needed help with and I helped them with their questions about specific problems from Sapling.

Week of 9/16

I had students come to my office hours on Wednesday and Friday. One girl came on both Wednesday and Friday and spent her time sitting and doing practice problems and asked me questions when she was stuck on certain parts of problems. On Friday I had two other students come to my office hours and they were concerned about where to start when given a kinematics problem, so we did some problems together and I walked them through how to draw a picture and write down givens.

Week of 9/16

2 students came to my office hours this week!
One student was confused about a 2D kinematics question on her homework, so we talked through her approach and how to find the correct answer. The second student was confused about vector addition, so we went through a couple problems in the textbook, and she seemed to understand the concepts when she left.

Week of 09/15

No students have shown up. This is the week following the first exam. I do not expect many student showing up.

I have been communicating with the instructor and she is aware of the attendance of the UTA office hours.

Week of 9/16

I had one student come to my office hours this week but also wanted to talk about stuff I've noticed in lecture as well.
It seems like some students are having trouble with two main things.
The first is letting go of their intuitions about physics and taking what is taught to them at face value. For example, when we did problems about throwing a ball up in the air on Monday, many believed that the ball will travel faster on its journey up but slower when traveling down. I think we should stress that they forget their inhibitions and approach what they're learning now as if they're seeing it for the first time.
The second thing I've noticed is that they will sort of give up if they cannot find the answer based on available formulas alone. I had to remind a student a bunch of times to not forget to find triangles in their problems and use the Pythagorean theorem and trigonometry to solve them. This is something we should remind students about as well.

Week of 9/9

No one attended my office hours this week. However, in class a few students asked my questions on vectors, and I was able to help them solve the in class problems. Additionally, multiple people in my house are taking physics 1, so I answered their questions when I got home.

Week of 9/9

This past week was the first exam for Physics 1. No one came to my office hours. However, several students reached out to me and asked for my advice regarding how to study for the professor's exams. I told them I learned the material by reading the book and her lecture notes simultaneously (and LOTS of practice problems)!

Week of 9/9

No body came to the office hour. I consulted the class professor, and asked for his anticipations for the exams. He wants students to be able to set up integrals and solve simple integrals in letter symbols during the exams.

Week of 9/9

This week I had one person come to my office hours. She needed help on the kinematics Sapling homework they were assigned. I expect to get more people at my office hours next week because they have their first exam the following week.

Week of 9/9

This week nobody visited my office hour, but still, people text me when they have problems, especially during midnight.

Week of 9/9

This week, I got to work with three different students on Physics 1 + 2 material. The first student I worked with needed help with making graphs for position, velocity, and acceleration vs. time. The second student and I worked on kinematics questions for Sapling - during our time, I helped them develop a schematic for setting up and solving these types of problems. With my last student, I helped make sense of explanations for MCAT physics questions involving Physics 2 concepts such as Bernoulli's principle.

Week of 9/9

I had two students attend office hours thus week and we worked on problems of free fall. The problems the students working on were best solved in two parts with two equations. Through separate pictures I found it easy to show the students how an initial velocity in one equation could be used as the final velocity in an equation at an earlier time.

Week 9/2

Nobody has showed up to this week's office hours.

Week of 9/13/19

Nobody has showed up for this week's office hours, or last week's office hours. During lecture, we had on average 2 clicker questions per lecture. We started chapter 18 (electric forces and fields) this week, and we just glanced over doing electric forces in 2D.

Week 9/9

Nobody came to my office hours, however in lectures Dr. Broccio started doing a few clicker questions per lecture and I was able to help people with kinematics problems during these lectures.

Week of 9/9

Nobody came to my office hours this week. We started doing in-class questions this week with clickers and I was able to help a few students with their questions.

Week of 9/9

This week no one attended office hours.  In class, they started doing clicker questions, but there were no questions to be answered.

Week 9/9

No students came to my office hours as we just had our first midterm and there is no assignment due today.

Week 9/2

A few students came to my office hours from other classes and asked for help with the Lon Capa. Most of them were plugging in their numbers into the calculator incorrectly so I helped with parentheses and such.

Week of 9.9.19

Nobody came to my office hours this week.

Week of 9.9.19

I was alone again during my weekly office hours. I made a reminder to the class to try and encourage them to visit me. I also had a very wonderful meeting with Danny Doucette. During lecture, I was able to answer a few students questions regarding the material. Despite the slow week, I am continuing to enjoy my time as a UTA.

Week of 9/9/19

No students came into my office hours this week. The first exam is 2 weeks away, so I expect students to come in for help closer to that date. In the mean time, I have worked through HW problems to provide solutions and have been taking lecture notes.

Week of 9/9

This week I had two students come in with questions about their homework.  We worked on using kinematic equations as a way to model an objects movement. I used visual examples to trigger the students' intuition so that they could see where the models come from.

Week of 9/9

No students on Monday. 

I have communicated with the instructor on Tuesday as the students are aware of the office hours. I am planning on communicating with other UTAs and hosting one additional office hour for the up coming exam. 

Week of 9/2

I had two students come into office hours. Both were questions about homework, I was able to help both of them out and guide them towards the correct answer.

9/2

I had two students come in with questions about the homework. One had questions about vector addition, the other about kinematic equations. We were able to work out the problems.

Week of 9/2

No students came to my office hours, since it's the beginning of the semester. While in lecture, a few students near me asked for help when practice questions were presented (involving velocity/acceleration graphs), which I helped them reason through!

Week of 9/2

No one showed up to office hours this week, but I'm excited to implement some of the strategies discussed during training both in and out of the classroom.

Week of 9/2

I had no students attend office hours this week. This is most likely to the students only having just started material.

Week of 9/2/2019

No student visited my office hours this week. The concepts that were included in the lecture were relatively easy, so most the students did not have questions during the lecture. Two students asked me homework questions via text. The problems they met were mostly calculation issue (They understand the concept but put wrong numbers into their calculator).

Week of 9/2/19

No students visited my office hours this week. Otherwise, I was able to answer a handful of questions during the physics lecture.

Week of 9/6

This week I only had the chance to do one office hour, because the other two were on Monday, but during that I had one student come in, but she was actually in PHYS 0111, but didn't have time to attend office hours at any other time. She pretty much needed help on a few problems relating to pressure and kinetics (Vrms), which I did have some sparse knowledge out so I was able to help go through those problems with her. But other than that, I didn't expect much, but I do expect more people from my 0174 class to come in with help on kinematics and future topics as the difficulty starts to pick up.

Week of Sept 6

A few students come to my office hours this week. They are mostly confused because of the physics concepts are buried with complicated math steps. I helped them to isolate the physics concepts from the complicated math steps, to understand the physics concept first and then the math steps. It helped them to understand the physics concepts more.

Week of September 6

I had one person come to my office hours this week on Thursday. She cam for help with a problem on girth. I helped her understand the proportions and variables that the professor posted on courseweb in the lecture slide, and then she went through and completed the problem on her own which I then checked her work for afterwards.

Week of 9/2/19

This weak no one came to office hours.  In class, we helped answer questions about units.

Week of 9/4/19

No students came to my office hours this week. I used this time to review upcoming lectures for the class and possible questions that will arise.

Week of 9/2/19

I held two office hours this week due to no classes on Monday. No students attended either time. However, I was able to spend that time reviewing lectures and HW problems to prepare for possible questions that students may bring to me next week.

Week of 9/4/19

No students.

Week of 9/4/19

No students came to my office hours today.

Week of 4/15

I had a couple students show up for help on their last homework assignment.  We worked mainly on their Lon Cappa assignment which was on heat.

week of 4/15

No students at office hours. finished optics in class and had a review.

week of 4/8

No students came to office hours. We are done with AC circuits.

week of 4/1

No one came to office hours. In class we are finishing off chapter 22 and 23.

week of 3/25

Helped Two students from a calculus based physics 2 class until their UTA was done with other students. They had concept questions with regard to magnetic fields.

week of 3/18

The class average was 78 and that was pretty great. no students at office hours

week of 2/25

After finishing up on ohm's law last week, we have started learning DC circuits and instruments. The class seems lively and the content did not seem too difficult for the students. with midterms coming up next week I am expecting more student to come to office hours.

week of 4/15

The final week of office hours was somewhat of a quiet one. One student stopped by with a question about snells law and how to apply it to an online homework problem. After pointing out how the given the angle from snells law could be used to find the distant that a ray of light was refracted the student was able to figure out the problem.
UTA'ing for physics 2 this semester has been an amazing experience. It gave me the opportunity to make an impact at this university and allowed for a sneak peek into the world of teaching.  It also taught me some invaluable skills that aren't often found in the classroom such as patience and finding unique ways to explain concepts. Whether it was through help with that one final homework problem they couldn't figure out, or some words of encouragement before an exam, I hope the students that I interacted with found themselves a little more comfortable in physics 2 this semester.  I wish them all the best on the final exam!

Week of 4/15

This week I had a decent amount of students come to my office hours to review for the final exam. Next Monday (the 22nd) I will also be holding a review session for the final. Overall, I had a great time UTAing for physics 2.

Week of 4/15

I was a little bit disappointed this week because I thought that many students would come to my office hours since their final is this coming week, however, no students came to office hours.
I am hoping that leading up to the final students will feel comfortable reaching out to me with any questions regarding the final.

Week of 4/15

This last week I had a few people come in asking questions about the homework and book problems.  I will be holding a review for the final on Wednesday next week.

Week of 4/15

My last week of office hours was similar to the prior weeks. I had a few students come in to ask some questions about the last homework assignment, but it was otherwise uneventful. I have one final review session coming up on Tuesday to prepare for the final.

Week of 4/15

This last week was filled with answering questions about the last Sapling assignment and providing strategies for final exam prep.

Week of 4/15

No student came to my office hours this week either. I wish them all the luck in their finals.

Week of 4/15

This week I had two students attend my office hours. They had a few questions about waves but mostly wanted to review kinematics and forces for their upcoming final. I really enjoyed being a UTA for Physics 1 this semester and hope to do it again in the fall!

Week of 4/15

In this final week of office hours I had one student attend offices on Tuesday. We covered topics the student struggled with on exams two and three. These topics included simple harmonic motion and rotational kinematics. Yet again I found that pictures help best illustrate the concepts. I also found that showing graphical presentations of the concepts helped show things like energy conservation.

Week of 4/15/19

Well, today was my last day of office hours, and tomorrow will be the last time I go to lecture. I went out, not with a bang, but a whimper: I didn't have anyone come into office hours this week. I guess there's still the chance someone will ask me a real stumper in class tomorrow.

Week of 4/15/2019

This week was the last week of my office hours! Sadly, no student stopped by during them. Hopefully they are all prepared for the final on Wednesday!

Week of 4/15

Today, I had my last office hour of the semester. I had a few students stop by this week with questions on Sapling. Today, two students came in - we worked on a Sapling problem and discussed beneficial study strategies for the departmental final. They have come to my office hours practically every week, and I have really enjoyed working with them. 

Overall, being a Physics 2 UTA has been a great experience. I'm thankful to have had the opportunity to interact with other engineering students and help them better succeed in what can be a very challenging first-year course. I really enjoyed holding review sessions before exams because they gave me the opportunity to interact with more students. I also enjoyed being able to help proctor the exams because it provided insight into what it's like to be a professor (in one way). I hope the students do well on their final! 

Week of 4/15

This was my final week having office hours. I had one student attend with a question on springs. Next week, there are no classes and the final exam is on Monday. It was a pleasure being a TA this semester for Physics I.

Week of April 15

This week I had no one attend my office hours.

Week of 4/8

This week I had my regulars come in with more questions about torque and rotation. With one of the students we worked through the practice exam. She would do the question and I would help her if she got the question incorrect.  I also recommended she go through the review without her notes to make sure she could do the problems.  I also had a new student come in to ask a few questions concerning the last exam and go over a few questions from the review.

Week of 4/8

This week I didn't have any students come to my office hours and I had to cancel one of them because I had strep. This also inhibited me from going to class but I am hopeful that next week, being the week before finals, will be more productive and more students will come to my office hours.

Week of 4/8

This week I had comparatively fewer students in my office hours. And those students who were there were not there nearly as long as last time. These concepts were simpler than the rotational concepts the students needed help with before. Once we went through one or two homework problems the students had a good enough understanding to finish the rest of the homework themselves.

Week of 4/8

No one came to office hours this week. With finals approaching I think students will come to office hours for review help 

Week of 4/8

No students attended office hours this week.

Week of 4/8

Post-third midterm, I spent most of my time helping my regular student with their most recent Sapling HW assignment. We worked heavily with lenses and understanding how to best approach problems that utilize the mirror and magnification equations in terms of image and object distances and heights. This is one particular unit in which making and memorizing a chart comparing lenses and mirrors is extremely beneficial.

Week of April 8

Coming close to the end of the semester! Only one more week left. Only had one person come in this week; they wanted to do some review on the midterms of the course. She said she'd be back to ask more, but I haven't seen her again. I probably will next week, though.

Week of April 8

This week, no one attended my office hours. I will hopefully get more people as we get closer to finals.

Week of 4/8

No students came to my office hours this week either. I hope that they're more encouraged to come next week before finals to discuss any of the material.

week of 4/8

This week I did not have any students come to my office hours from the class I TA for, but I did have a physics 2 student come looking for help. I hadn't looked over that material in a while so it took a while for me to figure out why he was getting his homework problem wrong, but I was eventually able to explain the problem as well as the concept to him.

Week of 04/08

I helped one girl with textbook problems regarding electricity and magnetism. We were able to go through a few circuit problems and clear up her misconceptions.

Week of 4/8

This week I was able to help one student prepare for his upcoming final. We went over his study plan and what kind of practice problems he should be doing to best prepare for the exam. I hope to see more people come in for help as the final nears.

Week of 4/8

A very quiet week in my office hours with no students coming by. It will be interesting to see how the last week of classes plays out and whether or not students will come with questions about the final or not.

Week of 4/8/2019

This week no students came to my office hours. Hopefully people will come by next week as it is the week before finals!

Week of 4/8

This week my class had the third and final midterm exam. I held a review session on Monday and had a large attendance. Mostly now the class is getting prepared for the final exam.

Week of 4/8

This week I had no students attend my office hours. Probably because last week the students had an exam.

Week of 4/8

It's hard to believe that next week is already the final week of classes! Anyway, as expected, with students just having taken their final midterm on Friday, office hours were quiet this week - no one came to any of my office hours. The remaining lectures will continue with an introduction to waves. Actually, when I took PHYS 175, we didn't cover this material due to time constraints, so I am learning these topics for the first time with the students. In terms of final exam preparation, I would like to hold a review session or additional office hours next week; many students are nervous about the fact that the final is departmental. 

Week of 4/1

No students came to the office hours this week. The instructor did announce in class of our office hours and hopefully this encourages more students to come.

Week of 4/1

Another quiet week in office hours with no students showing up. That came to me as a little bit of a surprise with Friday morning's exam rapidly approaching. Low attendance at office hours however was quickly made up for by a packed house in 106 Allen for a planned review session. After working through some powerpoint slides focusing on biot-savart law, ampere's law and magnetic force on a current carrying wire, I believe the students walked away with a solid hour of studying.

Week of 4/1

This week, I had three students stop by my office hours. We reviewed a practice test from another professor as well as Professor Paolone's in-class concept questions. Both of these seemed to be most helpful in terms of preparing for their exam. On Thursday, I held a review session, which included old homework problems from my PHYS 175 course; about 35 students showed up. This seemed to help students finalize their preparation for the exam. On Friday, I helped proctor the exam. Overall, it seemed to go well, with many students finishing early. I'm expecting this week to be a bit quieter since they have just completed their exam.

Week of 4/1

I don't have much to report on this week. No one came to my office hours but I helped answer some in-class questions that students had about the third midterm they had this past Thursday. I also answered a question regarding Lenz's law that a student messaged me. The students seemed to be very pleased with the third exam and they feel confident that they understood the concepts enough to do well on the exam.

Week of 4/1

This week the students had an exam on Thursday so my office hours were busy.  I had about 6 people in my office hours throughout the week.  Additionally I held an extra review session Wednesday night for two hours.  I had 12 students come to that, a much higher turnout than last time. 

I answered questions on book problems and helped students work through the posted review as well as a handful of particularly challenging Sapling problems.  Particularly Torque and the parallel axis theorem were issues people had questions about. 

Week of 4/1

This week the students had an exam, so I hosted a review session for the students a few days prior. 15-20 students came and we essentially worked through every section the exam covered and then did problems from some of the practice exams. For my actual office hours, we focused mostly on homework help since they were held after the exam. We worked through problems focusing on Newton's Law of Gravitation and Kepler's Laws. There was some tedious math the students had to work through but they all seemed to understand how the concepts are applied to each problem.

Week of 4/1

No one attended office hours this week. Students just took their third exam so I think students will start to come in for final help and review

Week of 4/1

This week, I helped my regular student with Physics 2 in preparation for their exam this past Thursday. Questions about the most recent unit covering lights and lenses were answered. I also helped my regular Physics 1 student with moment of inertia and its relationship to torque and force.

Week of 4/1

Not much to really report on this week; no one came in during my office hours. Still getting asked questions in class, though, which is good; I'm glad that I'm actually helping and not useless! There is one student that keeps asking me to basically just solve the problem for them. I try to give them a guiding hand (probably a bit further than I probably should), but never outright answering the problem, which seems to leave them frustrated. The other students are happy to get a push in the right direction, or just confirmation of a concept, though.

Week of 4/1

This week I helped a couple students prepare for their exams and the quiz. The exam is next Tuesday, and I will be holding a review session on Monday. Overall, most students are getting ready for their third exam and the final.

Week of 4/1/19

This week I had four students attend office hours.  They had their third exam on Wednesday, so we went over their practice exam answers and talked about what to put on their extra equation sheets.

Week of 4/1

No students from the class that I TA for came to my office hours this week which was surprising because they had their third exam on Wednesday. I did have a Physics 2 student come to my Friday office hours. I wasn't able to answer his question off the top of my head, but we were able to do some research and eventually found him an answer to his question.

Week of 4/1

No one came to office hours this week. The other UTAs and I are planning to hold a review session for the students as the final nears.

Week of 04/01

I was able to help one person with their physics lab work. I hope to see more people coming in for help since their final is coming up.

Week of 4/1/2019

This week only one person came to my office hours on Thursday. We went over the conceptual questions for the lenses and mirrors chapters. It's important to remember that convex mirrors always produces a virtual image, and that flat mirrors goes by the law of reflection.

Week of April 1

This week, no one attended my office hours. They had an exam on Monday before my office hours, so I expect to get more people next week as we get closer to finals.

Week of April 1st

This week, I had no students attend my office hours. I was honestly surprised because there is an exam on Wednesday and it's the last one before the final.

3/25

I didn't get any students in any of my office hours. Although they have a test on Monday, I think they preferred to study on their own, or probably they sought the instructors help.

Week of March 25th

Again, it was a slower week during my office hours. Only one student stopped by with a question about induced electromagnetic force caused by a current loop. We were able to work through the problem and arrive at the solution after manipulating the pertinent equations with the geometries of the problem. Next week, the students have their last midterm exam on Friday. I’m looking forward to more students stopping by office hours and hosting a review session early Thursday evening.

Week of 3/25

This past week, I worked with one of my regular students on some more difficult Sapling questions for Physics 2 and another one of my regular students on collisions and the conservation of momentum for Physics 1.

Week of 3/25

This week, I helped a student navigate the concepts of Lenz's Law and I helped my professor after class putting away a demo. The next test is coming up so I anticipate more students to come to my office hours this week.

Week of 3/25

This week I worked on some worksheets for the next exam and helped a couple of students on homework problems. Overall, this week was spent in preparation for the upcoming exam.

Week of 3/25

I did not have any students in office hours this week. They do have a test this upcoming Wednesday, so hopefully some students will stop by my Monday office hours.

Week of 3/25

I had planned to write and post this on Friday, but something came up suddenly that kept me pretty busy. Now that I have a free moment, though, I can actually write this.

...not that there is too much to say. I only had 1 person come in this week. I'm not surprised, however; Monday was their last midterm, and there is no longer an extra credit opportunity for coming to my Office Hours.

Week of 3/25

This week I was able to help a girl with her Physics lab and we also covered how the topics from lab relate to the topics she was learning in class.

Week of 3/25

No one came to this week's office hours.

Week of 3/25

This week I had three people on Tuesday and Thursday come in with concept questions pertaining to rotation and angular motion.  We worked through some examples together from the book and I believe they left with a better understanding of the material.  I also someone come in on Wednesday with some questions about her last exam.  I gave her some tips on how she could phrase her answers to more clearly demonstrate her understanding of the concepts and increase her score. She found these helpful.  They have an exam next week so I will be holding extra office hours to review concepts and practice problems before the exam.

Week of 3/25

I had no one attend office hours this week. In class students had a lot of questions on static equilibrium so I think students will bring in more questions next week.

Week of 3/25

This week was another busy week for me. I had probably about ten students come in again this week, some with homework questions, some with general concept questions. The emphasis was on rotational energy and angular momentum, which is traditionally a tricky topic for students. Again, students seemed to leave with a much better understanding after going through the homework problems. They have an exam next week and I am holding additional review sessions to help them review and go over other concepts.

Week of 3/25/19

This week I had one student attend office hours.  We worked on the homework that was assigned which dealt with momentum.

Week of 3/25

5 students stopped by my office hours this week - three were people I haven't met before, so it was nice to work with some new people.

A couple of students wanted to review the lectures - with Prof. Paolone out of town, we had guest lectures this week, and I think the change in teaching style was difficult for them to adapt to.

In addition, I worked through approximately 10 Sapling problems across the 5 students. In most cases, students had a calculation error or didn't know what formula to use (there are a lot in this section); it's reassuring that they weren't making any huge conceptual errors. In any case, I was able to help them solve and understand the problems.

The class has their third exam next week, so I spent some time this week developing a powerpoint with review questions, which will be used in two review sessions next week.

Week of 3/25/2019

This week, no students attended my office hours, even though exam 3 is on Monday. Hopefully, more people will stop by as we get closer to finals.

Week of 3/24

This week I did not have any students attend my office hours. There is an exam next Wednesday so I am guessing a few students will come in prior to that.

Week of March 25

This week, no one attended my office hours. Hopefully more students will come the closer it gets to finals week.

Week of 8/3

I didn't get any student this week in my office hours. Although the difficulty of the subjects have increased, the number of students attending office hours decreased. It might be that they started going to Dr. Broccio for help or the homework questions are solvable.

Week of 3/18

I didn't have any students come to my office hours this week, but I did help a couple students in class with clicker questions. I had to miss Tueday's lecture for a job interview.

Week of 3/18

This week not much happened since the exam was the week prior. Most students did well but some asked to go over questions they messed up. I had a few students come to office hours to ask for help with homework and concepts as well.

Week of 3/18

This week, I had a few students come to my office hours, surprisingly for Physics II even though I am not a Physics II TA. Unfortunately, I am far removed from Physics II and didn't remember much. The students are learning about torque and rotational kinematics in class.

Week of 3/18

This was my busiest week thus far UTAing for Physics 2. I had 51 students come in in Tuesday to ask questions; in a room with 5 chairs. Thursday was similarly busy, and I simply was incapable of answering everybody's questions. For this reason, I decided to hold two extra hours of office hours on Friday in Hillman, which was almost as busy as Tuesday and Thursday.

Week of 3/18

Coming out of Spring Break, I worked with one of my regular students on some interesting Sapling questions involving the second right-hand rule and clarified questions involving application of magnetic flux and induced current.

Week of 3/18

Three students stopped by my Wed. office hours. We worked through one challenging Sapling problem that involved finding the magnetic field due to two rotating discs. We were able to solve this problem by 1) using symmetry, 2) working through it piece by piece, and 3) relating magnetic field problems to electric field problems. We also re-solved some conceptual questions embedded in the lectures - these related to the right-hand rule. With their third exam coming up shortly and the information becoming more difficult, I'm sure more students will have questions in the upcoming week.

Week of 3/18

This week in office hours, I helped a few students with circuits and answered questions they had for their Physics lab for this week.

Week of 3/18

I was able to help one student with the concepts on their homework regarding AC circuits in office hours today.

Week of 3/18

My office hours were incredibly busy this week; I had about eight or nine people come in for help on the homework. Many of them stayed for the entire three hours, and I stayed for an extra hour for two others. The discussion was primarily focused on torque-based problems and how they are similar to the sum of forces problems in some aspects and different in others. Overall, most of the students seemed to leave with a much stronger understanding of how to approach these problems.

Week of 3/8/19

This week I had two students come in for homework help.  The homework was on inelastic collisions and we were able to talk through all the problems during my office hours on Friday. 

Week 3/18

Sadly, no one came to my office hours this week. I was able to answer a couple students questions in class though. Hopefully, as the next test comes up more students will come to office hours with questions.

Week of 3/18

This week I only had one student stop by my office hours on Tuesday. After looking at some B field derivations of known geometries we were apply them to the configuration at hand and arrive at the answer. With the course really ramping up after spring break with the introduction of magnetic fields, I'm looking forward to helping more students tackle this particularly tricky subject. I would not be surprised to see an uptick in attendance at office hours in the final few weeks of the semester.

Week of 3/18/19

This week no one attended my office hours. I think the reason for this was because the test for my class was the week before break.

Week of 3/18

This week I had two people come in with questions from Sapling.  We discussed strategies involving the angular kinematics equations to approach the problem.  I also recommended solving the problems symbolically so that the relationships between the variables would become more apparent.

Week of 3/18/2019

This week I had two people come to my office hours on Tuesday. For both, I helped them with some conceptual questions on Sapling. It's important to remember that an induced current in a coil will generate a magnetic field that will OPPOSE the changing magnetic field. Additionally, when you are facing a bar magnet toward a loop, it's easier to generalize that the field lines are either going into the loop or away from the loop. On Thursday, one additional person came to my office hours. We simply went over the conceptual concepts for Module 20 and 21. I just reminded them that the step up voltage was for minimizing loss when transmitting electricity across power lines and that the step down was for a usable voltage in a household. Additionally, I emphasized the analogy with springs and stated that the resonance frequency helped maximize current as the reactances from the inductor and capacitor cancelled each other out.

Week of March 18

This week, one person came to my office hours on Wednesday needing help with Sapling homework. He was having trouble understanding how to counteract a change in flux by inducing an EMF and therefor a current in a loop to create a magnetic field that would oppose the change in flux. Using the second right hand rule, I was able to help him better understand the concepts.

Week 3/4

This week, we covered electromagnetism in class. It was after the midterm and the homework is due after the break so no one showed up for office hours. I expect more students to come next week probably in the earlier days right before the homework due.

Week of 3/4

This week I held extra office hours on Sunday to help the students prepare for the exam on Thursday.  I had one person come in and we worked a few problems from the exam review.  During the week I had three people come into my office hours. One had a question about the conservation of energy from the study guide. We worked on the problem and some"hints" that could be found in the phrasing of the question.  The other two had a question about a book problem involving centripetal acceleration that we were able to work through.

Week of 3/4

This week, I didn't have any students come to my office hours. I had to miss my Friday office hours for vacation travel plans. I did help a couple students in class with clicker questions that the Professor assigned.

Week of 3/4

This past week was very quiet because my students just had their second midterm of the semester. Most of my office hours were spent assisting a student in Physics 1 with doing problems incorporating both forces and kinetics in preparation for his exam.

Week of 3/4

This week I held a review session for the exam that was this Tuesday. I had about 50 students come and made sure that they were ready for the exam. I also proctored the exam and had several students come to my office hours on Monday to ask questions before.

Week of 3/4

I had one student attend office hours this week and it was on Tuesday. We worked on problems the student was having on their practice exam. Some of the topics included energy conservation and centripetal motion. I think the student benefited from the one on one interaction of the UTA resource room for the student was able to learn the materials they were struggling with at a slower pace. With midterm exams concluding I don't foresee students attending office hours.

Week of 3/4

This week I shortened my Friday hours since it is right before spring break and my students just had an exam yesterday, so I did not expect many students. No students came to those, but I did hold extra hours on Tuesdays to help students study for the exam. I had several students come to those. We mostly focused on the process for how to actually work through problems, knowing what method to use, etc. I helped them work through book problems as well as example problems that the professor posted.

Week of 3/4

No one came to my office hours this week since the students just had their first midterm on Tuesday, I did not expect many students this week.

Week of 3/4

No one came to office hours this week.

Week of 3/4

Surprisingly no one showed up to any of my office hours this week even though they had their second exam on Wednesday. I did meet with a student last weekend to help her with some practice problems she was having trouble with for the exam. Hopefully I have more students after spring break.

Week of 3/4/19

In my office hours on Monday, I worked with a couple students on their Lon Capa assignment.  It was on forces and energy.  On Wednesday, I had a couple more students and we worked on the practice exam.  Their main questions dealt with energy and how friction factors into their equations.

Week of 3/4/19

Like I predicted last week, I had lots of people come in this week; I think about 10 in total. We are entering the really tricky parts on Magnetism, both Math wise with Biot Savart Law, and conceptually with Lenz' Law. In addition to normal office hours affairs, I shared links to different websites and videos I used to understand Magnetism better when I took this course.

Week of 3/4

With springs break right around the corner it came as no surprise to me that it was a slow week during office hours.  One student stopped by a quick question about circuits. She had already worked through most of the problem and her methodology was very close. I worked through the problem the way I would have done it and noted key steps across the way. Through this the student was able to recognize their mistake and correct it to get the answer.

Week of 3/4/2019

This week there was an exam on Monday. Only one person showed up to my office hours this week (on Tuesday). However, we didn't do anything Physic 2 related. I helped her on some MCAT Physics questions (mostly encouraging her to figure out the questions given the concepts she already understood). Hopefully I will be able to see more people after Spring Break!

Week of 3/4

This week, I had two students come to my office hours. This makes sense because there was an exam for Broccio's class on Wednesday. They students have already started the next module in lecture.

03.03 - 03.09

The class just had their second exam on Friday, so as expected, it was a quiet week. In lecture this week, Prof. Paolone continued with magnetism. One student came to my office hours to review the lecture slides and re-try the embedded concept questions after my explanation of concepts.

Week of March 4

This week they had an exam on Monday, so no one attended my office hours Monday afternoon or Wednesday morning due to no new content being learned.

Week of 2/25

This week I had fewer students than expected; only two of my regulars showed up with homework questions. Overall, students seem to be struggling with knowing what method is the best method to solve a problem, since they now have three methods of doing so. The homework problems generally seem to help them learn how to combine these methods. They have an exam in less than a week and I am hosting extra office hours on Tuesday, so I am hoping I will get students coming in with questions.

Week of 2/25

This week, I had one student come to office hours to discuss a couple questions pertaining to this past Thursday’s exam. I helped the student with general concepts and a homework problem.

Week of 2/25

I had one person come in this week with questions about old homework in preparation for his exam.

02.24 - 03.02

This was a particularly fun week for me – probably not so much for the students!

Nobody came to my office hours on Monday morning, but on Wednesday, I talked with two students who just wanted some insight on preparing for the exam.  I was able to help them feel less anxious.  On Thursday, a student came in, and we worked through some examples related to Gauss’ Law and capacitors.  He felt more comfortable at the end of the office hour.

Tyler and I also decided to hold a review session to help students prepare for their exam.  I had a really busy week myself, so it was challenging to find time to put together questions; however, I was able to put together a pretty good presentation using old HW questions from my PHYS 175 class as well as some additional online resources.  There was one review session at 4 and one at 6:30, and both were very crowded!  I stayed after the 6:30 session to answer students' outstanding questions.  I’m glad we did this as many of the concepts we discussed appeared on their exam this morning.  It was nice to work with Tyler on this; I hope we can do something similar for their final midterm.

I also helped proctor the exam this morning.  Our professor allows us to answer students’ questions, which is always interesting.  It was nice to be able to help clarify their questions.