Week of January 9

I had office hours from 11 to 1 and 4 to 5 on Thursday and about 11 people showed up altogether. They mostly needed assistance with vectors and a few other homework questions from physics 1 (algebra based). Most of them had problems with similar questions so it was easy working with them in pairs and once they'd been guided on how to approach the problems, they found it easier to solve them. I also had other TAs in both sections to help out so every student was attended to.

Week of January 9-13

I held two office hours on Tuesday, January 10th.  Three students attended these hours for help with Physics 1.  One student stayed for the entire duration, and we worked on problem-solving strategies for the homework problems, specifically for the second half of the homework.  In addition, we reviewed some of the material in the lecture videos on units and uncertainty.  The other two students came as a pair, and I aided them in working through setting up problems 8 and 9 from the homework.  Additionally, we worked on the best ways to enter values and expressions into the homework system.

My other office hour was held on Friday, January 13th.  I helped five students with Physics 1 over the course of the hour, most of whom had questions on problems 7, 8, and 9 from the homework.  I worked together with them in setting up the problems, as well as in reviewing the foundational concepts and strategies that are useful in completing these more challenging problems.  Common things reviewed included vector addition concepts, vector components, and trigonometric relationships and functions.  Finally, strategies for reading the homework problems and understanding the questions being asked, as well as for inputting final answers, were also reviewed with most students.

Overall, it seemed the common questions centered on the last half of the homework and involved concepts of vector addition, components of vectors and their relationship to resultant vectors, and trigonometric concepts.

Week of January 9

There were 2 people who came to my office hours on Tuesday for help with Physics 1. They were having trouble with vector addition and dimensional analysis, and I helped guide them on some problems they needed help with. One person came to my office hour on Thursday for help with Physics 2. It was just for a couple of homework problems. I looked at their work and it turned out they made a couple of simple mistakes, and once they fixed them, they got the problems right.

Week of Jan 9-13

No one came to my office hours on Monday. On Thursday, during my first hour there no one came but for the second hour about 7 students showed and another TA was with me to help the students. Most of their questions were about vectors and how to start the problems on their homework. Once we talked about the concepts and the strategies they seemed to understand and completed parts of the problem without assistance and only needed a little bit of help on other parts. They were all from algebra based physics.
Jennifer Rutkowsky

January 9-13

My office hours were hectic this week, so many people had problems with the homework. I couldn't go around and answer everyone's questions so I often had to demonstrate them (especially numbers 7-9) to multiple people at once. Was not expecting it to be this crowded the very first week. Made good progress with a lot of the students though, so we're off to a pretty good start

Also I get help requests in public places where I'm doing work to help students with physics all the time (like five times this week). A little bizarre, might have to start referring them to office hours soon once I get busier lol

Week of 1/9

I didn't have anyone come to my Tuesday office hours, but someone did come in today with questions about some of the homework problems. She was having a little trouble starting the problems but caught on pretty quickly when we talked through the set up.

week 2

This is second week of school, and is actually the first week of tutoring session start, I worked with couple of students with homework problems about vectors, they did have basic concept about vector but only hard part is when given a figure or a problem, they may not able to approach the questions and further solved them, so i gave them some hints and tips.
In general it is fun to help someone in needs or with problems! and I am happy doing so!