COURSE OBJECTIVES

    Homework is due on Thursdays at 2.00pm and should be date/time stamped and left in the instructor's mailbox in 126SPL.  Solutions will be posted on the site soon after the end of class and, consequently, late homework will not be accepted. If you have not finished all the problems, hand in whatever you have completed.

    Your homework grade will be based on the grading of in-class assignments and selected exercises. Problems will be chosen to reinforce the course principles and to introduce a cross section of the various types of problems to expect in exams and later courses.

    You may hold preliminary discussions about assignments and homework in groups but writing up the solutions thereafter must be your own work. This applies to anything you submit for grading.  You are referred to the University's Policy on Academic Honesty to ensure that you know what is acceptable and what can, and will, lead to disciplinary sanctions. 

    The ability to solve problems independently is an element critical to your ability to succeed in this and later classes (and most engineering careers). To develop this skill, you may find it necessary to solve additional problems on your own (additional problems can be found in the text, website and/or study guide).

    The underlying principles of classical mechanics are few and relatively simple. However, there is an infinite number of ways to apply these principles to the understanding of the physical world. In order to master engineering mechanics, you must go well beyond the level of memorization of formulae and the substitution of data (colloquially known as, plug-and-chug). The proper analysis of a mechanical system requires that you be able to identify the appropriate principles needed to reach the desired solution, create an adequate, working model, apply the principles to the model and present and interpret the results.

    ASSIGNMENTS, where you are not under a time constraint, are to be treated as presentations made to an intelligent colleague who has not yet taken MEEG 112. Thus, they should be neat, methodical, and clearly present the logical development of the problem and its solution.  You will use words and sentences, in addition to equations, to convey your method of solution. You will be graded on the process, not on having produced a correct answer.  Your success in this course depends primarily on your ability to master and present these steps in a clear, logical and orderly manner.  Good habits that you develop in MEEG 112 will assist you greatly in later ME courses.  Work that is untidy, legible with difficulty, or that does not follow a logical progression will be returned to you ungraded.

    Write on one side of the page only, on 8.5"x11" paper.  Staple in upper left corner.  Late homework will not be accepted.  If you have not completely finished the homework, submit what you have.   Address homework grading questions to the TA first and exam grading questions to the instructor.  If they are to be considered, such questions must be brought within 48 hours of the HW or exam being returned to you.