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.