Physics Dropbox

[Yonah Ziemba]

Hi Everyone,

In other courses, we've had a dropbox that we used to share helpful study supplements for courses and exams.  I've set one up for General Physics and you can take the login info from the bottom of this email. Right now it  has previous exams and problem set answers, and I hope it will grow and  include  lecture notes and help for lab (in addition to the previous exams and  problem sets answers). 

If you have something that you'd like to add, please go ahead and upload it; dropbox makes it fast and easy for any user to add a file. Then you can either notify us on the google group, tell me to notify the group, or just wait to people to notice it on their own.

Here are just a few points:

- Since there is no textbook, it seems like it will be extra important to study the material presented in the lecture as that is our only 'access point' to the material (and also because  all exam questions will be based on questions that we've seen previously in lecture, lab or homework.)   It's hard for everyone to always take notes of the whole lecture,  and it would be great if a volunteer could share their notes with us. If you might be able to do it, please let me know. 

It doesn't matter if the notes are typed on a computer or handwritten. We can easily scan it and post it as a pdf (see next point), and sometimes handwritten work can capture ideas more graphically that a word processor can. Either way has advantages and is equally perfect.

-If you want to share a document that you have only on paper and no digital copy, it's easy to scan it at the digital studio on the fifth floor of Bobst. (Take the doorway between the elevators, walk until the computers and turn left.) They have a full time help desk there, and the staff will be happy to show you how to do it. They also have sophisticated scanners with feeders that can scan both sides of 15 double-sided pages in less than a minute. Or, you can give it to me after lecture and I'll do it.

- Please, please limit this to postbaccs only.  Of course we would like to help as many people as we can, but many people are only comfortable sharing their own files with a close group of friends; if it is available to an unknown number of anonymous students then nobody will want to share anything on it. So please do not give out the login info or specific files to other students. If you would like an exemption to be made for a specific friend, you must contact the author or donor before sharing a file. If you want to share the the login info, you must ask me first.

- Everyone is invited and encouraged to add material that can help others. However, it should only be used for material that is directly related to this course ie. something that can help us with NYU lectures, labs and exams, and get better grades on the course.

- Please do not use it for personal use, even for a short time. If you need to store or share a personal file online, you can easily set up your own dropbox account at www.dropbox.com. It takes less than five minutes and it's  free.

- Thanks to Emma Gilmore and Julia Cooperman for the previous exams that are posted in the dropbox.

Here's the  login info: 

https://www.dropbox.com/login 

Username: postbac...@gmail.com

Password: cheerio  

Good Luck!

(P.S.   Here is a  short conversation with Professor Hogg that you may find useful:

Begin forwarded message:

From: Yonah Ziemba <yz...@nyu.edu>

To: david...@nyu.edu

Dear Professor Hogg, 

I had a hard time following the vector calculus that came up in lecture today. I was told by my adviser that I need to take one semester of calculus before physics, but I won't need calculus 2 or 3. In calc 1 we finished the first 6 chapters of the Stewart Textbook, and we did not reach Vector Calculus, which is covered in a chapter of it's own later in the text.

  Are we responsible for it in this course? Will it come up in future lecture? Will it be needed on an exam? 

Thanks for a great lecture,

 Yonah

Begin forwarded message:

From: David W Hogg <david...@nyu.edu>

To: Yonah Ziemba <yz...@nyu.edu>

Don't worry -- the actual calculations we do will all be like those I did in class today--not real vector calculus but just one-dimensional calculus on vector components.)

[Micah M.]

I'll upload my lecture notes in a few.
Please be aware that I take these notes using my iPad/Stylus, so the
handwriting might look a little funny.

Thanks for setting this up!

On Sep 14, 11:17 am, Yonah Ziemba <yonah.zie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
>         In other courses, we've had a dropbox that we used to share helpful study supplements for courses and exams.  I've set one up for General Physics and you can take the login info from the bottom of this email. Right now it  has previous exams and problem set answers, and I hope it will grow and  include  lecture notes and help for lab (in addition to the previous exams and  problem sets answers).
>         If you have something that you'd like to add, please go ahead and upload it; dropbox makes it fast and easy for any user to add a file. Then you can either notify us on the google group, tell me to notify the group, or just wait to people to notice it on their own.
>
> Here are just a few points:
>
> - Since there is no textbook, it seems like it will be extra important to study the material presented in the lecture as that is our only 'access point' to the material (and also because  all exam questions will be based on questions that we've seen previously in lecture, lab or homework.)   It's hard for everyone to always take notes of the whole lecture,  and it would be great if a volunteer could share their notes with us. If you might be able to do it, please let me know.
>         It doesn't matter if the notes are typed on a computer or handwritten. We can easily scan it and post it as a pdf (see next point), and sometimes handwritten work can capture ideas more graphically that a word processor can. Either way has advantages and is equally perfect.
>
> -If you want to share a document that you have only on paper and no digital copy, it's easy to scan it at the digital studio on the fifth floor of Bobst. (Take the doorway between the elevators, walk until the computers and turn left.) They have a full time help desk there, and the staff will be happy to show you how to do it. They also have sophisticated scanners with feeders that can scan both sides of 15 double-sided pages in less than a minute. Or, you can give it to me after lecture and I'll do it.
>
> - Please, please limit this to postbaccs only.  Of course we would like to help as many people as we can, but many people are only comfortable sharing their own files with a close group of friends; if it is available to an unknown number of anonymous students then nobody will want to share anything on it. So please do not give out the login info or specific files to other students. If you would like an exemption to be made for a specific friend, you must contact the author or donor before sharing a file. If you want to share the the login info, you must ask me first.
>
> - Everyone is invited and encouraged to add material that can help others. However, it should only be used for material that is directly related to this course ie. something that can help us with NYU lectures, labs and exams, and get better grades on the course.
>

> - Please do not use it for personal use, even for a short time. If you need to store or share a personal file online, you can easily set up your own dropbox account atwww.dropbox.com. It takes less than five minutes and it's  free.

>
> - Thanks to Emma Gilmore and Julia Cooperman for the previous exams that are posted in the dropbox.
>
> Here's the  login info:https://www.dropbox.com/login

> Username: postbaccphys...@gmail.com

> Password: cheerio  
>
>         Good Luck!
>
>         (P.S.   Here is a  short conversation with Professor Hogg that you may find useful:
>
> Begin forwarded message:
> From: Yonah Ziemba <yz...@nyu.edu>

> To: david.h...@nyu.edu

>
> Dear Professor Hogg,
>         I had a hard time following the vector calculus that came up in lecture today. I was told by my adviser that I need to take one semester of calculus before physics, but I won't need calculus 2 or 3. In calc 1 we finished the first 6 chapters of the Stewart Textbook, and we did not reach Vector Calculus, which is covered in a chapter of it's own later in the text.
>         Are we responsible for it in this course? Will it come up in future lecture? Will it be needed on an exam?
>
> Thanks for a great lecture,
>  Yonah
>
> Begin forwarded message:

> From: David W Hogg <david.h...@nyu.edu>

[Micah M.]

I've uploaded University Physics 12e textbook in the dropbox for
anyone that wants to use it. Personally, I think its pretty useful!

Good luck on Tuesday!

- Micah