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Hi all,

Here is the final grade distribution for those who are interested. I am very pleased that the median final grade came out to be A- (80%), which is slightly higher than in previous years. Congratulations to everyone in the whole class on their performance.

It was a privilege and pleasure to teach each one of you. Our combination of different origins, experiences, interests, styles, ages, knowledge, and extrovertedness really enriched the class. I hope you got what you came for and had fun learning about physics — I sure had a blast teaching the class!

I wish each one of you well in your future studies and in life. As you know, you have a standing offer of a letter of recommendation from me. Now that final grades have been submitted, I am also open to appropriate socializing with students, either individually or in groups. For instance, if you would like to do lunch sometime or have me visit a student pub night to talk about physical science (both of which I have already done with past PMU199Y students), I would love to join you. My general policy is to “go Dutch” with students, to help make the power relationship more symmetrical.

Best wishes and GOOD LUCK!

Your professor, Amanda Peet.

Prof. Peet (earlier version)

Hi everyone,

Most of the class got As for their Spring Participation grade (worth 10%) – there was 1 D, 1 B, 6 A-, 7 A, and 8 A+. Congratulations to everyone.

Cheers,
Prof. P.

Hi everyone,

The university has asked me to remind you all to please complete your online evaluations for this course by the deadline of tomorrow Tuesday April 9th, if you have not already done so.

Evaluations are very important to improving the quality of education at UofT. Just a few minutes of your time will give UofT and your professor useful feedback. Constructive suggestions for improvement and identification of what worked really well tend to be particularly useful, but all types of feedback are invited.

With best wishes,
Prof. P.  

Hi all,

Several university administrators have asked us to circulate a stern reminder to students about plagiarism. It is high season for essay-writing and, sadly, also for OSAI plagiarism cases.

Please review the definition of plagiarism according to the UofT Academic Code. Please also review how not to plagiarize.

The Code describes plagiarism as “to represent as one’s own any idea or expression of an idea or work of another in any academic examination or term test or in connection with any other form of
academic work, i.e. to commit plagiarism” (B.i.1.a). The further definition given is: “the wrongful appropriation and purloining, and publication as one’s own, of the ideas, or the expression of the ideas … of another” (Appendix A).

Note in particular that failure to identify specific use of an author’s exact words by quotation marks, even when the use of the work is otherwise fully documented with a citation, an offense under the Code. It “merits severe sanctions when found”.

Cheers,
Prof. Peet.

Hi everyone,

I am sorry that it took me so long to clear my backlog for grading! You should all have a brief email in your inbox by now containing your grades for Essays 4 and 5.

People generally did pretty well. Essay 5 had a broader distribution mostly because it had more lateness penalty casualties.

Essay 4 results

Essay 5 results

Only the Test and Essay 6 to go!  :)

Cheers,
Prof. P.