Welcome to Applied Physics

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Welcome to Applied Physics
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Who am I?

• Dr. Todd Leif
• Department Head Biological and Physical Sciences
• Teaching in my 20th year at CCCC
• Recent PhD Graduate from KSU
• Nebraska native
• Today is my Birthday!

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Who am I ?

• Education consultant
• Professional photographer
• Wife, Diane works in Advisement center
• Creighton 17, Olivia 14

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Who are you?

• Name
• Grade in school
• Hometown
• Major, future plans
• Activities, etc.
• Name 1 famous person you have met

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Lets design this class!

• What do you want to get from this class?
• Why are you taking this class?
• How do you want to be graded in this class?
• What goals and objectives should we try to meet?
• What are your expectations of me?

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Class Expectations

• What kind of time do you expect to put into this
  class?
• What kind of grade do you expect to get in this
  class?
• Should you read the Textbook?
• Should you attend all Class and Labs?
• Should you do homework?

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My visions

• Active learning needs active participation.
• We will learn more than just terms.
• You will be tested over applications.
• I believe in teaching for transfer.
• Common grade distribution in my classes.
• As- 20
• Bs- 30
• Cs- 25
• Ds- 20
• Fs- 5

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Mondays assignments

• Read a Chapter a.k.a. Chapter 1
• Read Prologs or student introductions
• Come to class prepared to talk/discuss my
  questions related to chapter.
• I will come to class with an example/lab/activity
  related to the chapter.
• I will have time to help answer problem questions.