Welcome to Physics 1D03

Fall 2023

Module 0 – Course logistics

 PHYSICS 1D03 – Meet Your Instructors

Dr. Reza Nejat Dr. Sergey Sibiryakov Dr. Graeme Luke

Sections C01 & C02 Section C03 Section C04
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
ABB 235 ABB 323 ABB 260

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 PHYSICS 1D03 – Meet Your Instructors
Instructional Assistant: Head TA: Head TA:
Dr. Maryam Tabeshian Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier Megan Oxland
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

You will meet your other TAs in Labs/ Tutorials!

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 PHYSICS 1D03 – Course Format
This term’s course will be offered in a blended format:

(1) Online Modules: ~2 to 3 video modules posted every week (optional)

(2) in-person Sessions: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays

C01 (Nejat) – 9:30 am – 10:20 am
C02 (Nejat) – 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm
C03 (Sibiryakov) – 3:30 pm – 4:20 pm

Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays

C04 (Luke) – 11:30 am – 12:20 pm
(3) Labs: In-person, ~Every other week starting Sept 18

(4) Tutorials: In-person, ~Every other week starting Sept 18

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 What will we learn in PHYS 1D03?
Mechanics: relationship between force, matter and motion
• Kinematics: describing motion
• Dynamics: causes of motion

Topics that will be discussed in this course:

• Kinematics – 1D & 2D
• Forces and Newton’s Laws
• Circular motion
• Work, Energy and Conservation of Energy
• Momentum (Linear) and Conservation of Momentum
• Rotational Motion, Torque, Angular Momentum
• Oscillatory Motion, Simple Harmonic Motion

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 PHYSICS 1D03 – Marking Scheme
• Engagement (in-Class): 0 to 5% of the final grade
– iClicker quiz, question-answer during each class
• Labs: 15% of the final grade
– approximately every other week, 4 labs in the term
• Tutorials: 10% of the final grade
– approximately every other week, alternating with labs
• LON-CAPA: 6% of the final grade
– online assignments, every week
• Two term tests (MC + Long): 24% of final grade (12% each)
– ~80-90 minutes long, Oct. 05th (Test 1), Nov. 16th (Test 2)
• Final exam (MC + Long): 40 – 45% of final grade
– ~2.5 hours long, Date TBD
Note: The final exam will be worth 45% if your iClicker mark is zero. Otherwise,
your iClicker mark (out of 5) will be added to your final grade, and the weight
of the exam will be reduced by an equivalent number of percentage points.
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 PHYSICS 1D03 – Key Dates
• Lectures: begin on Tuesday, September 5th
• Note: we will start using iClicker during the first session

• Labs: Lab 1 begins the week of September 18th (odd sections) and
September 25th (even sections)
• Note: There is no Lab exemption. If you are repeating the course,
you are still required to complete all four labs of 1D03.

• Tutorials: Tutorials begin the week of September 18th (even

sections) or September 25st (odd sections)

• LONCAPA: Assignment #1 opens on Wednesday, September 6th

(due Wednesday, September 13th)

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 What do you need for this course?
• Textbook: Serway & Jewett, Physics for Scientists & Engineers,
10th ed (Other editions: 9th, 8th, 7th are also OK)
Same book is used for both PHYS 1D03 & 1E03
• iClicker Cloud (required) – phone or web based app
• Official Calculator: Casio fx-991 MS or MS Plus
(only calculators permitted in tests and exam)
• lab manual is posted on Avenue to Learn this term: lab outlines
will be posted on Avenue

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 What will be on Avenue to Learn?
• Announcements
• Course outline
• Weekly study plan/schedule for
readings and online modules
• Lecture notes Check the
• LON-CAPA instructions PHYSICS
• Crowdmark (Labs/tutorials) 1D03
• Grades Avenue
• Quizzes page
regularly!!!
• And more!

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 What will be on Microsoft Teams?

• IA Channel
• Office hours
• Discussion Channels

Check the
PHYSICS
1D03 Team
regularly!!!

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 Lecture Notes – General
• Will be weekly online Lecture slides. Should be read before
each in-person sessions
• You may take notes – the slides are not the whole lecture!
• Lecture slides will be posted along with the Lecture videos
on the course Avenue page.
Lecture Modules – Videos
• Will be weekly online videos. Highly recommended (should)
be watched before each in-person sessions
• Will cover important concepts and principles. Will include
some example problems.
• Read the corresponding textbook sections as well; the
lectures won’t include everything. Watching lecture videos
BEFORE in-person session helps you a lot!!!
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 Concept Quizzes – iClicker
• Required; available https://www.iclicker.com/students/
• Allows you to answer multiple-choice questions during live
sessions.
• Marks will be given for answering question (attendance) during
the in-person session.
• No excuses are needed, and none accepted for missed sessions,
forgotten iClickers, etc.

Approach:
1. Read the clicker question thoroughly

2. Think about the question on your own for 1–2 min

3. Use your computer or cellphone to answer

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 Labs
• There are four (4) lab experiments. Details about how
labs work will be posted on Avenue.
• The schedules for labs/tutorials will be posted on Avenue.
Lab/Tutorials start on Monday, September 18, 2023.
• Before each lab, read the required section of the lab
manual posted on Avenue and watch the “how-to”
videos. Answer pre-lab questions (electronically or on
paper) and show your answers to the TA as you enter the
lab room.
• If you’re repeating the course, you must repeat the labs
since there is no Lab exemption.

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 Labs
• Check the schedule for your lab/tutorial section.
• Before each lab, read the required section in the lab manual.
• There is a pre-lab assignment (in the lab manual) to be completed and shown to
the TA just before each lab. This encourages you to prepare properly.
• In the lab, students work in pairs. The report is completed during the lab period
and uploaded to CrowdMark before leaving (one report per pair).
• The lab assessments on CrowdMark are timed such that from the moment you
click on them, you only have 4 hours to submit the lab report. So DO NOT click
on the lab assessments on CrowdMark until you are in the lab and ready to start
or your timer will run out before you have the chance to finish the lab.
• Bringing any completed report into the lab room (including on your phone) is
academic dishonesty.
• You must complete all labs. A make-up week is provided at the end of term.
• If you’re repeating the course, there is no lab exemption!

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 Labs
• You will be expected to estimate the uncertainty associated
with your measurements.
• Read the introductory materials on uncertainties and graphs.
• Note: the first homework (LONCAPA) will include calculating
uncertainties

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Tutorials
• There are five (5) tutorials
• Tutorials alternate with labs
– Labs/Tutorials start on Monday Sept. 18, 2023.
• Each tutorial will be led by a teaching assistant (TA).
• In the tutorials you will learn to discuss physics problems, and
to work effectively individually or in groups of 4 or 5.
• The tutorial has two main parts:
1) Quiz 15 minutes: You will write out and hand in a
complete solution to a problem chosen from LON-
CAPA, working individually.
2) Practice solving physics problems: working in groups
with help from a teaching assistant (TA)
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 CrowdMark
• Written work including tutorial questions and quizzes will be
submitted for grading via the CrowdMark platform
• Login through Avenue to Learn at the following link:
https://app.crowdmark.com/sign-in​/mcmaster
• Tutorial quiz assessments on CrowdMark are timed such that from the
moment you click on them, you only have 10 minutes to upload and
submit your answer. So DO NOT click on the tutorial assessments on
CrowdMark until you are in the tutorial and ready to submit your
answer or your timer will run out before you have the chance to do so.
• When an assignment is posted, you will receive an email in your
McMaster email account.
• CrowdMark accepts only PDF, JPG and PNG file formats.

There are practice

assignments for BONUS
marks. Start: Sept 07, Due:
Sept 14.
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 Homework: Using LON-CAPA
• There will be a LON-CAPA assignment each week.
Answers are entered into the computer.
– The LON-CAPA system tells you immediately whether the
answer is correct and allows you to try again if it is not.
– You can get access to LON-CAPA directly through Avenue
• You can log on/off and keep working on an
assignment as often as you like until each deadline.
• The LON-CAPA assignments are an essential part of
understanding the material.
– You should expect to spend a significant amount of time on
these; the biggest reward will come on the tests and exam.
• LON-CAPA assignments are worth 6% of your grade
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 Missed Work Forms (MSAF)
For missed tutorials and midterm tests:
• Direct forms to Dr. Maryam Tabeshian
<[email protected]>
• When you use the MSAF form, the weight of the missed
item is always added to the final examination.
• The mark on Avenue will eventually show up as " –2" if
the form is received, but this may take up to a week as
the forms need to be processed.
• E-mail Dr. Tabeshian and/or your instructor ONLY if your
mark does not show as " –2" by a week after you
submitted the form.
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 Missed Work Forms (MSAF)
For missed Labs:
• Direct forms to Dr. Maryam Tabeshian <[email protected]>

• When you use the MSAF form for Lab, you are allowed to do the
make-up lab. If you do not do lab (or make-up lab) you will get
zero on the missed lab.

• E-mail Dr. Viktor Buntar ([email protected]), the lab

supervisor to make arrangements for the make-up lab.

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 Missed Work Forms (MSAF)

For missed Class, and LONCAPA:

*** DO NOT fill out an MSAF form for missed class
attendance, iClicker, or LONCAPA – these will be
ignored or deleted, and you will lose one form.

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 Expectations for Conduct
• McMaster is committed to an inclusive and respectful
community. These principles and expectations extend
to online activities including electronic chat groups, video
calls and other learning platforms.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion:

• The Dept. of Physics & Astronomy is committed to creating an
environment in which students of all genders, cultures,
ethnicities, races, sexualities, abilities, and socioeconomic
backgrounds have equal access to education and are
welcomed and treated fairly.
• In this course, we encourage active participation and
engagement within a safe and welcoming learning environment.
As such, we expect all interactions between students,
instructors and TAs to be respectful. Note that discussion/chat
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 Expectations for Conduct
Academic Integrity:
• You are expected to exhibit honesty and ethical
behaviour in all aspects of the learning process.
• Academic dishonesty is to knowingly act or fail to act
in a way that results in unearned academic credit or
advantage (e.g., plagiarism, improper collaboration,
copying or use of unauthorized study aids during
tests and exams).
• This behaviour can result in serious consequences,
e.g., a grade of zero, loss of credit and/or suspension
or expulsion from the university.

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 Accommodation and Support
Academic Accommodations:
• Students with disabilities who require academic
accommodation should contact Student Accessibility
Services (SAS) at sas.mcmaster.ca, 905-525-9140 ext.
28652 or [email protected]

Physical and Mental Health:

• This is an unusually challenging time to be a student. If
you or someone you know is experiencing physical or
mental health issues, McMaster has resources to
help. Please contact the Student Wellness Centre at
wellness.mcmaster.ca, 905-525-9140 ext. 27700, or
[email protected]
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 Getting Help for PHYSICS 1D03
• Discussions on Teams
– Our TAs, instructional assistant, instructors and your
peers can answer questions and discuss physics
• IA Office Hours on Teams
– The instructional assistant will have weekly office hours
on Teams
• Instructor office hours/appointments
– Book a private or small group appointment with your
instructor using the link on Avenue
• Physics Drop-in Centre and Physics Help Initiative (PHI)
– Details will be posted on Avenue

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 First steps…
• Make sure you have access to Avenue to Learn and
Teams
• Read the Course Outline carefully and thoroughly, and
explore the course Avenue page
– Familiarize yourself with what’s there and read the introductory
materials
• Check out the Weekly Road Map for Week 1
• Register for iClicker/Reef
• Obtain the textbook (new or used) – (Ed: 7, 8, 9, 10)
– The next in-person session will be on chapter 2 (2.1-2.8)
• Read the lecture slides and watch the video of the
“Module 1 – Lecture 1” before next class

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 How to succeed in PHYSICS 1D03
• Keep up with the course! Spend at least a few hours every
week on the course.
•Watch the lecture modules and attend and actively
participate in discussion the in-person sessions, and
tutorials. Read the textbook, do the problems, and ask
questions.
• Practice problems from the textbook will be listed each
week. Try several of these. Think hard about them and
don’t give up on the difficult ones.
• Discuss physics with other students. We have discussion
forums setup for this on Teams. Often explaining a concept
is the best way to clarify your own ideas.

Engineering I requires a lot of your time. Expect to work many

evenings and weekends. Organise your time early in the term,
before the deadlines arrive!
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 Let’s try a poll . . .

How are you feeling about the start of the term?

A. Excited! I can’t wait to get into all my courses!

B. Pretty good
C. Neutral
D. A little bit nervous, there are so many new things
E. Pretty worried

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