Homework Assignment #0
Due Friday August 27

  1. Your Name:
    First:
    Last:

     
  2. Your Student ID Number:
    3. (It's that thing the university gave you that starts with "*" followed by a bunch of numbers)

  3. Your Nickname:
    4. (What do your friends call you?)

  4. Secret Name For Posting Grades Online:
    5. (This is optional. If you supply it, I will post your grades online by this name so you can identify your current grade. Don't let anyone else know your secret name and don't use a secret name that's the same, or very similar to, your name, nickname, or student ID since this will be used to post your grades online for all to see.)

  5. Your Email Address:
    6. (Sometimes this is helpful if I need to contact you.  Leave this blank if you don't check regularly.)

  6. Your Local Telephone:
    7. (Where do I call if you are late for the Final Exam? Don't laugh, I used this last year!)

  7. Your Class:
    8. Pull-down -- Freshman? Sophomore? Junior? Senior? Graduate?)

  8. Your Major (or best guess):

  9. The Most Advanced Physics Course You Have Ever Taken:  
    10. (e.g., "High school physics, Physical Science, or NONE EVER").

  10. Why Are You Taking This Course? : 
    11. (e.g., fits my schedule conveniently; my GPA was getting a little too high and heard this course could remedy that problem; curious about physics; all the other sections were full; To start my own Psychic Hot Line Service - Physics? I thought this was a psychics course; . . . )

  11. The Physics Subject You Are Most Interested In Learning About In This Course: 
    12. (e.g., Wave motion, nuclear bomb making, building perpetual motion machines, or . . . .)

  12. The Best Movie You've Seen in the Last Year (Or So): 

  13. What Are Your Long-term Career Goals? (Or, as my wife likes to ask me, what do you want to be when you grow up?):

  14. A Paragraph Telling Me About Yourself: (What do you do when not studying? Do you play a musical instrument? Like any sports? Play on a team? Join any clubs? What awards have you won? Do you have brothers and sisters that you love/hate? Anything interesting about yourself that you are willing to share. Don't be shy and don't be afraid to brag!)