Lectures - Homework - Solutions - Quizzes - Exams - 8.01 Home Page
There will be ten homework assignments, a dozen short quizzes (during recitation), three exams (during regular lecture hours), and a final exam. The quizzes will be given about once per week on days specified by your instructor. Only four, randomly selected, problems of each assignment will be graded. The graded homework, quizzes and exams will be returned in recitations (a missed homework, quiz, or exam counts as a zero). Only in case of verifiable illness can you be excused by Professor Koster from taking an exam (except the final exam). If at all possible, this should be done before the exam. Exams can cover any material from the lectures and the assignments. You will find all future homework assignments, lecture supplements, solutions and more on the 8.01 Home Page: http://www.mit.edu/~8.01/Fall99/ . Hard copies are available in 4-339B.
 

Exam	Date
1	Wednesday, September 29
2	Monday, October 25	There are no make-up exams
3	Monday, November 22
Final	Date to be determined

Grade Computation
For each of the three exams you can score a maximum of 100 points, for the final exam 200 points, for all the quizzes combined 100 points and for your homework 100 points. The grading of the quizzes and the homework will differ somewhat for different recitation sections. To promote fairness, at the end of the course the average quiz and
homework grades will be normalized for each section by comparing them with the results of the exams. Your final course grade is based on the sum of all your scores.

The Physics Interactive Video Tutor (PIVoT).
MIT's Center for Advanced Educational Services (CAES), in collaboration with the Physics Department, is producing a new learning environment on the web for those taking a Newtonian Mechanics course. It will allow students to watch videos in which I discuss physics and problems. PIVoT will give answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), it will also have Quizzes and Simulations. At this time, PIVoT is only about 20% complete, yet you can already access 17 hours of video clips covering a wide range of 8.01 topics. Even though PIVoT is presently only in an early stage of development, we are making it available as it may already be of some limited use to you. You can access PIVoT through Athena: http://curricula2.mit.edu/pivot/ . You can also access it through the 8.01 Home Page.

8.01 Lectures on PIVoT.
This entire 8.01 course will become part of PIVoT, including the lectures. The taping of the lectures will be done from 10-11 AM. The lectures will appear on PIVoT after one week. These will be un-edited versions. To accommodate you in preparation for exams, we will make an effort to make the Exam Reviews available within one day.

Tutoring
A tutoring schedule will be announced later on the 8.01 Home Page.

Recitations
There are 26 recitation sections. If you want to change, for whatever reason, please go to the physics education office (4-352). You will find all information about the recitations on the 8.01 Home Page.

Academic Behavior and Honesty
During quizzes and exams exchange of information with others is unacceptable. So is the use of notes or other materials, unless explicitly authorized. You will not be allowed to use calculators (they will not be needed). Anyone suspected of violating these guidelines will be charged with academic dishonesty and subject to MIT's disciplinary procedures.

1. Do yourself (and me) a favor.
Read about the topics before I discuss them in lectures. It is not necessary that you study them carefully, but at least get the "smell of it". This should make it much easier for you to follow the lectures and that should make them more interesting. On every assignment you will find the relevant reading for the upcoming lectures.

2. Another favor as a courtesy to students and me.
Please try to be in your seats by 4 minutes past the hour; I start each lecture exactly 5 minutes past the hour. If you have to be late, as a courtesy to other students and to me, come in quietly through the back doors (A & C in the sketch), and take a seat in the back.

3. To students of the first lecture (10-11 AM).
Please leave 26-100 through the exits marked B & C (see sketch). Avoid exit A and the hallway to the main corridor (the shaded area, connecting building 26 with 8). This will allow the second class to get into 26-100 in time.

 

If you have comments, or suggestions, or if you are unhappy about any aspect of the course, please come and see me or send me e-mail. Thanks and Enjoy the Course!

walter lewin

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