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.