## Instructors
- Dr. Kevin Kit,
kkit@utk.edu, 363B ZEC
- Dr. Nathan Hicks,
nhicks7@utk.edu, 260D ZEC
## Schedule
- Lecture: MWF 9:10 AM - 10:00 AM, 10:20 AM - 11:10 AM or 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM; ZEC 360
- Recitation: TR 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM, 11:20 AM - 12:35 PM, 12:55 PM - 2:10 PM, 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, or 4:05 PM - 5:20 PM; ZEC 358 or 360
## Website
[https://efcms.engr.utk.edu/ef157-2023-08](/ef157-2023-08) - you must have consistent and reliable access to the web site.
The web site contains a calendar of topics, instructor contacts, course policies, learning materials, assignments, and dates for exams.
## Materials
- Laptop PC
- A scientific calculator (cell phones and tablet-based calculators will not be allowed on exams)
- Engineering or plain white paper is required for Weekly Homework (WHW) assignments.
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See here for more details
## Course Description
EF 157 is an integrated, team-taught course based on the fundamental principle that the best way to learn how
engineers approach physical phenomena is active involvement in solving real engineering problems. This course
will emphasize consistent problem solving methods and skills appropriate for closed-ended problems, as well as
design methods appropriate for open-ended problems. You will begin your study of fundamental engineering physics
principles in this class. As engineers in industry depend on team problem solving and communication skills to
effectively do their job, you will be placed in teams in order to work on projects. You will be given assistance
in working in this format and be asked to practice oral and written communication skills.
## Catalog Description
Honors version of EF 151 for well prepared students.
Calculus-based study of basic physics concepts, including vectors, kinematics, Newton’s laws, forces,
work-energy, and impulse-momentum. Introduction to team work. Introduction to the engineering disciplines.
Examination of engineering principles and design issues. Oral and written presentation skills.
Satisfies Volunteer Core Requirement: (EI) (NS)
Corequisite(s): EF 105 or COSC 101 or COSC 102; and MATH 132* or MATH 141* or higher.
## Course Objectives
Students will...
- develop understanding of fundamental calculus-based physics principles useful for engineers
- develop general strategies for solving engineering problems
- learn and engage in the engineering design process
- become familiar with the different engineering disciplines offered at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
## Learning Goals
Students will be able to...
- apply mathematics, science, and engineering knowledge to hands-on situations, real-world settings, and creative design projects
- utilize a structured, principled process to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
- design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data
- design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints
- employ effective written and oral communication of technical concepts
- contribute effectively to an engineering team to complete investigative, creative, or practical work
- discuss aspects and opportunities associated with different engineering disciplines
## VolCore Natural Sciences Course Objectives
As a course that fulfills the Natural Sciences (NS) requirement of the University of Tennessee's VolCore Requirements, it will produce the following outcomes.
1. Students will demonstrate the ability to describe fundamental principles and chief discoveries through appropriate use of the basic vocabulary of a course’s discipline.
1. Students will demonstrate the ability to identify the scientific dimensions of contemporary issues.
1. Students will demonstrate the ability to use experimental techniques to answer questions and test hypotheses.
## VolCore Engaged Inquiries Course Objectives
As a course that fulfills the Engaged Inquiries (EI) requirement of the University of Tennessee's VolCore Requirements, it will produce the following outcomes.
1. Applied Learning: Students will apply skills and knowledge from the classroom in hands-on situations, real-world settings, or in independent/ directed research or creative projects.
2. Collaborative Learning: Students will demonstrate the ability to engage effectively in a group to complete an investigative, creative, or practical work.
## Grading
- (55%) Exams
- Four module exams (10% each, in class on T or R)
- Comprehensive final exam (15%, in person)
- Improvement incentive: If you score higher on the final exam than a module exam,
- the module exam weighting will be changed to 8%
- the final exam weighting will be increased by 2%.
- this applies to each module exam.
- (3%) Learning Pages Completion
- (7%) Learning Questions
- (9%) Weekly Homework Sets
- (15%) Team Projects
- (4%) Research Paper
- (4%) Recitation Participation
- (3%) Lecture Participation
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Grades are rounded, so a 89.5 average would be an A.
Note: A grade of C or better in EF 157 is required in order to take EF 152 or EF 158.
- The course grading is A (>=90), A- (>=88), B+ (>=85), B (>=80), B- (>=78), C+ (>=75), C (>=70), C- (>=68), D+ (>=66), D (>=62), D- (>=60), F (<60),
- All grades are rounded to 2 Significant Figures - 87.500 rounds to 88 - 87.499 rounds to 87
- Grade Boost: If your score on the final exam is higher than any in-class exam, that in-class exam will only count 8% and the final exam will count an additional 2%. This rule applies to all four in-class exams.
- Example: Exam scores are 92, 78, 94, and 75. Score on final exam is 89. Exam scores of 92 and 94 would count 10%. Exam scores of 78 and 75 would count 8%. Final exam would count an additional 4%, or 19% overall.
## Due Dates
Learning Page Completion
- 100% credit if completed by 8:00 am day of MWF class
- items completed after 8:00 am day of MWF class receive 50% credit up until the day of the relevant module exam
- items completed after 8:00 am day of the module exam receive 0% credit
Pre-Lecture Questions - online entry
- available one week before class
- 100% credit if completed by 8:00 am day of MWF class
- gradual decrease to 50% credit until 8:00 am day of that module exam
- 0% after
Post-Lecture Questions - online entry
- available 8:00 am day of class
- 100% credit if completed by 8:00 am on day of **next** MWF class
- 75% if up to 24 hr late
- gradual decrease to 50% credit by 8:00 am day of that module exam
- gradual decrease to 1% credit by the first day of final exams
Weekly Homework Sets - write our solution and upload scan as pdf
- available Mon of that week
- 100% credit if completed by 8:00 am Tue of following week
- 90% if up to 24 hr late
- 80% if up to 48 hr late
- gradual decrease to 50% by that module exam
- 0% after
## Help Hours
There will be faculty office hours and regularly scheduled TA help hours. Schedules and details are available via the course website.
## Class Absences
We expect every student to attend class as much as possible. If you have to be absent from class due to illness or
offical UT business (*e.g*., traveling with the Marching Band or Athletics) contact Dr. Kit or Prof. Martin at the earliest possible time.
We will only grant excused absences for official UT business, illness, or extraordinary circumstances. The process of granting
an excused absence will be the most straightforward if you can supply a note (from doctor, coach, band director, *etc*). See the Procedures/Forms page for Health & Illness Support Form and Bereavement Student Absence Form.
See the
Participation page for more details.
## Disability Statement
Any student who feels they may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact [Student Disability Services (SDS)](https://sds.utk.edu)
at 865-974-6087 in 100 Dunford Hall to document their eligibility for services. SDS will work with students and faculty to coordinate
accommodations for students with documented disabilities.
## Academic Integrity
Each student is responsible for his/her personal integrity in academic life and for adhering to UT’s Honor Statement. The Honor Statement reads: "An essential feature of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is a commitment to maintaining an atmosphere of intellectual integrity
and academic honesty. As a student of the university, I pledge that I will neither knowingly give nor receive any inappropriate assistance
in academic work, thus affirming my own personal commitment to honor and integrity."
We encourage students to work collaboratively to learn in our course. Appropriate means of collaboration may include meeting collectively to work on assignments.
During collective meetings, all members are expected to participate in discussion and contribute to collective understand and dialogue.
The following actions are specifically identified as inappropriate:
- Direct copy (in part or in whole) of another class member's assignment or work to turn in as one's own work.
- Direct copy (in part or in whole) of a solution provided by anyone outside of our class. This may include (but is not limited to)
previous students, tutors, or solutions gathered from websites like Chegg.
- Posting on a website, like Chegg, to ask for a solution to an assignment or exam in order copy the solution (in part or in whole) for submission.
- Viewing solutions on a website, like Chegg, in order to submit solutions (in part or in whole) as one's own work for assignments or course exams.
- Posting solutions or exam questions to social media, group chat, or other communication means to provide the questions or solutions for others in the course.
- Collaboration in ANY WAY during a course exam.
- Copying written work to submit as one's own work (in part or in whole) for written project reports.
We take inappropriate or unethical work in this course VERY seriously.
Inappropriate or unethical work is unfair to those students in the course who follow academic integrity guidelines.
It also shows a lack of character in regards to future practice in the engineering profession.
EF faculty and staff are dedicated to ensuring integrity of all work conducted throughout our courses and will pursue all means necessary,
in partnership with the Tickle College of Engineering, the Dean of Students, and the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards to ensure an equitable learning environment.
## AI Policy
### Limited Use When Designated with Disclosure
In this course, students are only permitted to use Generative AI Tools such as ChatGPT for specific assignments as explicitly designated by the instructors.
### Disclosure and Attribution
When use is explicitly granted, students must disclose any use of AI-generated material. Failure to disclose this use will be considered academic misconduct and could incur a significant penalty. As always, students must properly use attributions, including in-text citations, quotations, and references.
A student should include the following statement in assignments to indicate use of a Generative AI Tool: “The author(s) would like to acknowledge the use of [Generative AI Tool Name], a language model developed by [Generative AI Tool Provider], in the preparation of this assignment. The [Generative AI Tool Name] was used in the following way(s) in this assignment [e.g., brainstorming, grammatical correction, citation, which portion of the assignment].”
## University Civility Statement
Civility is genuine respect and regard for others: politeness, consideration, tact, good manners, graciousness, cordiality, affability,
amiability and courteousness. Civility enhances academic freedom and integrity, and is a prerequisite to the free exchange of ideas
and knowledge in the learning community. Our community consists of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and campus visitors. Community
members affect each other’s well-being and have a shared interest in creating and sustaining an environment where all community members
and their points of view are valued and respected. Affirming the value of each member of the university community, the campus asks that
all its members adhere to the principles of civility and community adopted by the campus: [http://civility.utk.edu](http://civility.utk.edu).
## Digital Device Policy
Technology can enhance classroom learning in many ways, but can also be a source of distraction for yourself or others in your class.
We encourage the use of technology in the classroom as an aid to learning, and in fact will occasionally require the use of laptops during class.
There are limits to what can be used in the classroom.
The following guidelines should be followed:
- You should not use a digital device that is a distraction to your learning.
You are responsible for your learning. You may only use a device to aid in your learning.
It is important that you practice self-regulation with your use of technology or digital devices in all learning settings.
- You cannot use a digital device that is a distraction to another person's learning.
You share your learning space with many others in our class.
At no time should you use a device in a way that is distracting to others.
This includes viewing content, sites, or social media that does not pertain to that day's work as well
as any type of behavior that is inappropriate or harmful to others in the class.
There is a zero tolerance policy in our course as well as at UTK for any behavior that can be interpreted as harrassment or bullying.
- You cannot use a device with communication capability on an exam.
For example, while phone, tablet or computer apps are acceptable for use during a regular class day,
you cannot use a smartphone calculator app on an exam.
You must use a calculator with no communication capabilities.
- All other forms of digital device use are acceptable and encouraged in this course, both during class and lab.
## Course Material Copyright
The instructors of this class own the copyright to the syllabus, handouts, assignments, quizzes, and exams associated with the class.
All presentations developed by the instructors, as well as the instructors' lectures, are also protected by copyright,
whether these presentations are delivered live in-class, shared through Zoom or other videoconference platforms, or uploaded to a web site.
Sharing any of this material without the written permission of the instructor is a violation of copyright law,
and is therefore also a violation of the University’s policy on acceptable use of information technology resources (UT policy number IT0110).
That policy states that students will not commit copyright infringement, “including file sharing of video, audio, or data without permission from the copyright owner”
and that file sharing is a violation of the university’s student code of conduct.
All such violations will be reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards.
## Calendar
Note, The following Calendar is our best estimate of the semester outline at the start of the semester.
It will be updated if changes are made.
Always consult the website Calendar, Learning Pages, Recitations, and Team Projects on the left menu for the updated schedule.
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Aug
23 | Lec 1.01
Course Intro |
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Aug
24 | Lab 1.0
Course Logistics |
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28 | Lec 1.03
Est, Stats |
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01 | Lec 1.05
Kinematics |
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06 | Lec 1.06
Constant Acceleration |
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08 | Lec 1.07
Constrained Motion |
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11 | Lec 1.08
Projectile Motion |
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Sep
12 | Lab 1.3
Projectile Motion |
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Sep
13 | Lec 1.09
2D Relative |
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19 | Lab 1.4
Review Problems |
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20 | Lec 2.01
Newton's Laws |
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29 | Lec 2.04
Friction and Motion |
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Oct
02 | Lec 2.05
Cir Motion I |
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03 | Department Info Activity
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04 | Lec 2.06
Cir Motion II |
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Oct
05 | Project 1.4/2.1
P1 Debrief, P2 Intro |
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Oct
18 | Lec 3.02
KE, Work-Energy |
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Oct
19 | Lab 3.1
Springs Lab |
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Oct
24 | Lab 3.2
Work-Energy |
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Oct
25 | Engineers Day
No Class |
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Oct
27 | Lec 3.05
More CoE, Power |
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Oct
30 | Lec 3.06
Linear Momentum |
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Nov
01 | Lec 3.07
Collisions-Direct |
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Nov
02 | Lab 3.3
Collisions-Oblique |
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Nov
03 | Lec 3.08
Collisions-Oblique |
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Nov
08 | Lec 4.01
Rotational Kinematics |
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Nov
13 | Lec 4.03
Rotational Kinetics I |
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Nov
15 | Lec 4.04
Rotational Kinetics II |
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Nov
16 | Lab 4.1
Rotational Kinetics |
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Nov
17 | Lec 4.05
Rotational Work-Energy |
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Nov
22 | Thanksgiving
No Class |
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Nov
23 | Thanksgiving
No Class |
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Nov
24 | Thanksgiving
No Class |
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Nov
27 | Lec 4.07
Angular Momentum |
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Nov
28 | Lab 4.2
Review Problems |
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Dec
04 | Lec 5.01
Final review |
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Dec
05 | Project 2.7
Post-Mortem |
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Dec
06 | Lec 5.02
Final review |
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Dec
08 | 157 Final Exam
6:30 - 8:30 |
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