TIPS ON SUBMITTING
                 HW ASSIGNMENTS WITH WEBASSIGN

    The PHY131 WebAssign problems are designed to be
  a learning experience and as a practice session for
  your quizzes and tests.  If you choose, they may be
  done in study groups, but remember that it is your
  effort in doing the HWs which makes the HWs valuable.

    Please, never use your browser's BACK button in the
  middle of an WebAssign session.  The system is
  designed to only move in the forward direction.

    The way things are set up at this time, you will have
  10 opportunities to answer each numerical part of each
  problem.  For Multiple Choice parts, you only get TWO tries.
  To have your answer graded for a single part of a problem,
  fill in only that part and select the button

                     "Submit Answer"

  which appears at the bottom of that problem.  If a part
  has been left blank, no submission is charged for that
  part.  Each incorrect answer will cost you a penalty of
  3% of the available points for that part.  For the first
  few assignments, the penalty will only begin on the second
  try.

    Always use three significant figures in your numerical
  answers (unless the program gives other instructions for a
  particular problem).  Numerical answers must be correct to
  within 2% (with rare exceptions which are noted within the
  problems).  Typing in more than three significant figures
  is a waste of your time.  For the rare problem in which
  answers must be correct to a fraction of a percent, enter
  four significant figures; it is always a waste of your time
  to enter more than four sig figs.  To enter a number in
  scientific notation, use the format *.**E**; for example
  5.97 X 10^24 would be entered as 5.97E24.

    NOTE:  There are some questions for which you have to
  "select all true statements."  These are called "Multiple-
  Select" questions; on these questions, you get the usual
  number of submissions.

    Approximately 5 minutes after the due date for each
  assignment has passed, you will find a practice version
  of the assignment available.  You may do this practice
  version as often as you like, but no credit will be
  given.  The practice versions are found by going to
  "Past Assignments", then opening each assignment.  At
  the bottom of each randomized question, you will find a
  button that allows you to practice the question as often
  as you like.  If the button doesn't appear immediately,
  just click on the answer box for that question.


                       TIPS ON SUBMITTING
                 Test Questions WITH WEBASSIGN


    Please, never use your browser's BACK button in the
  middle of an WebAssign session.  The system is
  designed to only move in the forward direction.

    The way things are set up at this time, you will have
  three opportunities to answer each question on a PRACTICE
  TEST, but only ONE chance to answer each question on one
  of the actual tests for a grade.  The PRACTICE tests have
  no time limit, but the actual tests have a one hour
  time limit to answer the 12 questions.  The PRACTICE
  tests may be taken anywhere, but the actual tests must
  be taken on the computers in the physics testing center
  in PSH-563.  For the PRACTICE test, you may submit one
  question at a time, but for the actual test you must
  submit all 12 questions at once.  When taking the
  actual test, do NOT hit the SUBMIT button unless you
  have filled in the answers to all 12 questions.