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Dear Engineers in my sections (J and H, '04'), let's use this wiki to discuss physics! On the left hand side, you will see a navigation pane that you can use to access the other sections of this wiki. Use the "Notify Me" tab at the top of this page to set up email notifications for every time someone posts something to this site. And make sure you sign up for notifications for "all pages" of this wiki.

I will be posting my solutions to the recitation section example problems and student problems every Friday evening, after the rest of the sections have turned in their work.

This wiki will be especially useful before exams when you're scrambling to figure stuff out. Please share your questions and ideas on solving physics problems. If you have a question about some concept, please post it. If you know the answer to a question someone else has asked, feel free to answer it. I will add my commentary as well. Sometimes I will post announcements also.

If you have a question about a particular problem: if it's a practice problem that you're not going to be graded on, then it's okay if the answer gets posted. If it's a homework problem or a section problem that you are getting graded on, then it's only okay to discuss the concepts involved; do not post the answers to such problems.

Regarding the honor code, here is a quotation that pertains to homework problems: "Collaboration on homework assignments is permitted and encouraged unless your instructor explicitly indicates otherwise.....Note that the permitted collaboration on homework and in-class activities involves students learning physics together. One student simply getting answers from another is not collaboration."

As long as we don't post "answers" to problems that you are graded on before everyone in all the other sections have turned their work in, we should be fine.

Feel free to expand this page for whatever purposes you need, i.e. adding new pages to our left-side pane for practice problem solutions, etc. etc.

--Manu

The picture in the top left is of physicist Richard Feynman. He won the Nobel in 1965, helped with the Manhattan Project and was once quoted: " Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."