Daily Assignments will be assigned periodically and are due at the start of class. They will be discussed at the start of the period and then turned in. Assignments will not be graded for correctness, but they will be recorded as having been turned in or not, and will count as 1/3 of your homework grade.
The instructor may ask students to discuss or present their solution to the class.
Notes about Daily Assignment Grading
1. Show your work.
2. Clarity is your responsibility.
3. State the assumptions you made in solving the problem
4. A daily assignment that is turned in during class on the due date will receive full credit provided an decent effort has been made to solve the assignment. Missing assignments will receive no credit. The daily assignments will receive approximately half the total homework weighting.
Some Words about Reasonable Answers
1. An answer to any problem is an estimate. As such, you should not express the answer with greater precision than is warranted by the problem statement and means used to obtain the solution. A good rule of thumb is to use no more than 3 significant figures unless there is a good reason to do so. Where gross, ballpark-type estimates are used, limit the answer to 2 signficant figures.
Examples: bad: 2.81242329. good: 2.81, or even 2.8 if there is only 1 signficant figure of accuracy or precision.
2. Use the appropriate units. Generally accepted practice is to have 1, 2, or 3 signficant figures before the radix point. This usually means frequent use of K, M, G, T, m, etc. suffixes.
Example: bad: 2,123,000,000. Good, 2.13 Billion. Bad: .00000213 seconds. Good: 2.13 microseconds.
3. Wherever possible and reasonable, use dimensional analysis to check your answers.
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