Journal Club  Fall 2002 Syllabus

Mon 3:30pm CW119

Instructors: Mick O'Shea. Uwe Thumm

Office, CW331, CW212

Email: mjoshea@phys.ksu.edu, thumm@phys.ksu.edu

 

General: The purpose of this course is for you to gain experience through practice in organizing and

presenting talks on physics related subjects. During the semester, each student is asked to prepare and make three presentations to the class.

 

1. A 5 minute presentation of an introductory physics problem.  The time limit will be strictly enforced. For this purpose, a problem from Halliday and Resnick [1] will be assigned to each member of the class. You are expected to introduce the problem, discuss ideas and strategies for obtaining a solution, and give the solution. The presentations should be brief, no more than 5 minutes, at a level suitable for beginning physics students. You will use the blackboard rather than overhead transparencies.  

 

[1] Halliday, Resnick, Walker, ‘Fundamentals of Physics’, 6th Ed., extended (Wiley 2001). 

 

 

2. Abstract of your 20 minute talk.  This is due at the start of class on Sept. 30th.  Both instructors and all students should receive a two page type-written abstract (back-to-front) of your 20 minute talk that must include your name, title, references, and can include up to two graphs and/or diagrams.  The abstract must be a concise and complete summary of what you will present.   

 

 

3. A 20 minute presentation of a technical or research(current) subject. The time limit will be strictly enforced. The medium of presentation will be either transparencies other electronic media.  If you choose electronic media such as powerpoint, you must have it set up and ready to go before the start of class.  The level of presentation should be suitable for first­year graduate students.  Criteria for evaluating the presentationwill be: Was the presentation well organized?  Was the speaker able to inform the audience about the subject matter?  Did the speaker follow the plan for the talk?  Some questions we will have on our minds: What was particularly good about the presentation? Were there ways to improve the presentation? 

 

 

Grades: The course is graded pass/fail.  Besides your own presentations, you are expected to attend all the meetings of the class and participate in the discussion/suggestion sessions that follow the presentations.  If you have to miss a class you need to inform both instructors by e-mail the day before class or earlier.  To pass you must give both presentations and you must have at least 65%. 

 

 

 

 

Credit will be given according to:

            Introductory physics problem:  20%

            Abstract:                                              20%

            20 minute talk:                          40%

            Participation in class:                             20%

 

 

Disabilities: If you have any condition, such as a physical or learning disability, which will make it difficult for you to carry out the work as I have outlined it or which will require academic accommodations, please notify me and contact the Disabled Student's Office (Holton 202), in the first two weeks of the course.

 

Plagiarism: Plagiarism and cheating are serious offenses and may be punished by failure on the exam paper or project; failure in the course; and/or expulsion from the University. For more information refer to the ''Academic Dishonesty'' policy in the K­State Undergraduate Catalog and the Undergraduate Honor System Policy on the Provost's web page at http://www.ksu.edu/facsen/policy/honorcod.htm.

Date

Date                             Activity

 


Aug.     26th                  Organization

 

Sept.    2nd                    No class

           

5 minute talks              

 

9th                           Faheem Muhammad    Flint Pierce                Lili Cui                            Mahsana Ahsan 

 

                                Jeremy Peterson           Edgar Corpuz            Darryl Ozimek                                              

 

 

16th                        Rajan Dhaubhadel       Nathan Woody                                        Bijaya Aryal                              Jasmine Foster     

 

                                Mark Smith                    Max Sayler                Krishna Prasai              Oppress Makhafula

 

23rd                  Shambhu Ghimire         Brian Espino             Mahendra Shakya        Hao Yan                

 

                                Corey Gerving              Shama Jabeen           Shabana Nisar              Arifa Habib          

 


20 min talks (Abstracts due at start of class on Sept. 30th)

 

            30th                        Jasmine Foster              Flint Pierce       

 

Oct.     7th                    Jeremy Peterson           Lili Cui               

 

            14th                  Mark Smith                    Darryl Ozimek  

 

            21st                  Rajan Dhaubhadel       Mahsana Ahsan       

 

            28th                  Max Sayler                    Hao Yan                        

           

Nov.    4th                    Nathan Woody            Edgar Corpuz   

 

            11th                  Shambhu Ghimire         Bijaya Aryal                 

 

            18th                  Mahendra Shakya        Krishna Prasai         

 

            25th                  Corey Gerving              Brian Espino    

 

Dec.     2nd                    Shama Jabeen               Shabana Nisar         

 

            9th                    Arifa Habib                   Oppress Makhafula 

           

            Extra                Faheem Muhammad   Summary of styles