1.
Navigating the Web.
Please find and submit via e-mail, with the info in #3 below,
the following info gleaned
from the EN 4 Web site, which is located at
www.engin.brown.edu/courses/en4
a. Professor Curtin’s middle initial, and a guess as to what it stands for (polite responses only).
b.
Scheduled activity for “Leap
Day” – Feb. 29
c.
Title of the first lab.
d.
How to contest a grade
e.
Fraction of the total course
grade for the second midterm
f.
Some of the goals of the
course, in your own words but gleaned from the stated goals
2.
Please review your statics
work on free body diagrams and friction.
3.
Using the e-mail option
shown on the web site, send me (Curtin) an e-mail (I know I am asking for
trouble) telling me briefly:
a.
Your previous physics
background (none, high school physics, honors physics, AP Physics AB, or BC)
b.
What you hope to get out of
EN 4, aside from an A.
c.
What else you are doing at
Brown aside from academics.
d.
Where you are from. (This might help me remember people by
forming convenient mnemonics like Bob from
4.
Do the problems listed separately on the website.