Scientific English

Required Course Materials

Note PC: 

Binder:

About the Slides

You may have noticed that I can move up and down, as well as left and right.

Slides Will Be Available Online

  • Don't bother taking pictures of the slides, that's a waste of our time.

 

  • You should still take notes. Note-taking helps you remember what you learned in class, even if you never read your own notes.

Class website

syllabus

links

slides

... whiteboards?

Class Policies: Late Work

  • Late work is unacceptable. If you don't have it on time, you will get a zero.
  • At the end of the semester I will drop your lowest quiz grade.

But sometime life gets in the way, so...

Class Policies: Handouts

  • Keep your handout from class in your binder!
  • Please keep notes, drawings, etc. in your binder as well. We will use them again later in the course.
  • I will check your binder at random times throughout the year.

Class Policies: Your Notebook

  • Organized note-taking is an important part of the scientific method. 
  • Notebooks must contain a table of contents. If you're not using a research notebook, leave the first few pages blank.
  • Notes should be labeled with a date and topic.

Example: Your Notebook

\vec{F}=m\vec{a}

04-08-2019    Newton's 2nd Law

Force

mass

acceleration

Since mass has units of kg and

acceleration has units of m/s^2, the units for force must be kg * m/s^2.

Homework

Q1: Show that it takes more force to accelerate a more massive object.

 

① We can rewrite the equation above in terms of magnitudes ...

\dfrac{|\vec{F}|}{|\vec{a}|} = m

Questions?

Copy of サイエンス特別演習: Intro

By Robert Sutherland

Copy of サイエンス特別演習: Intro

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