Weekly Group Tutorial Meetings
Conference sections will be divided into small groups of (we hope) no more than 10 students, which will meet in person weekly with a faculty member for discussion and problem solving.
- Tutorial meetings will take place during the 9am,10am,11am,1pm or 2pm MWF conference section hours.
- You will attend a meeting roughly once per week, either on Mondays or Wednesdays.
- Tutorial groups will (hopefully!) have no more than 10 students + a faculty member
- If you are registered for ENGN40 by noon on Wed Jan 26th you will be told your meeting time and the names of your group members by email no later than Wed Jan 26th. There may be some reassignments during the first week or so of classes as people drop/add the course.
- Tutorial participation will be graded - you can find the rubric here. The grade is meant to give you credit for the work involved in preparing for the meetings, rather than a hurdle you need to jump.
- To prepare for a tutorial meeting, you should watch the relevant lecture videos in advance (see below), and upload to Canvas a short presentation (2-4 slides) summarizing the main equations and concepts covered in the videos (slides are not required for the first two tutorial meetings). One person will use their slides to give a 5 min review presentation as an introduction to the class.
- Absences: You will be excused from a tutorial meeting if you can't make it for a good reason (eg you need to quarantine!) and let your faculty team leader know before the start of the meeting. Please request an absence by completing this form >>
- A typical tutorial meeting will include some of the following (a) a short review presentation, given by a team-member; (b) a short (ungraded) Canvas quiz with 3 simple questions related to the videos; (c) Q&A and discussion; and (d) some worked examples we will solve as a group.
- Here's the tutorial schedule:
Dates |
Topic |
Lecture Videos Covered |
Fri Jan 28 (for Wed groups) or Mon Jan 31 |
Introductions |
Episode 1 (no slides needed) |
Wed Feb 2 or Mon Feb 7 |
Matlab |
Matlab tutorial (no slides needed) |
Wed Feb 9 or Mon Feb 14 |
Particle Kinematics |
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Wed Feb 16 or Wed Feb 13 (Mon groups) |
Particle Dynamics |
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Mon Feb 28 or Wed March 2 |
Energy |
|
Man March 7 or Wed March 9 |
Momentum |
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Mon March 21 or Wed March 23 |
Free Vibrations |
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Mon April 4 or Wed April 6 |
Forced Vibrations |
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Mon April 18 or Wed April 20 |
Rigid Body Kinematics |
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Mon April 25 or Wed April 27 |
Rigid Body Dynamics |
Written and Video Tutorials
1. MATLAB tutorial (This reviews EN30 MATLAB topics and introduces several new topics)
Video Tutorial (Covers topics needed for problem set #1)
- Using Live Scripts
- MATLAB scripts
- Vectors and Matrices
- Loops
- Conditional Statements
- Examples Using Loops, Conditional Statements, and Plotting Graphs and Images
- Functions
- Example Problem Featuring a Function, a Loop and a Conditional Statement
- Solving differential equations with MATLAB
- Solving a simple differential equation by hand
- Solving Differential Equations Analytically with a Live Script
- Solving Differential equations Numerically with ode45 in a matlab function
- Example: Solve and Plot the Solution to a Differential Equation (Battery Charging)
- Solving Two Simultaneous Differential Equations (Predator-Prey Problem)
- How a numerical differential equation solver works
2. Calculus Review (external link, notes written by Dr. Ismor Fischer, University of Wisconsin)
3. Vector Tutorial pdf format (if you haven't done EN3, you might find this helpful)