| assessment |
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| exam (60%): |
This will be
sometime in weeks 13-15, exact date, time and place to be announced,
and will be of 2 hours duration. Questions on the Celestial Sphere
part of PHY105 will be given in Section A of the exam paper and are
worth two-thirds of the total marks available in the PHY105
examination. You must answer any 2 questions from a choice of 4 in
Section A and hence you should aim to spend approximately 80 minutes
on this part of the paper. Questions on the Telescopes part of PHY105
will be given in Section B and you must answer 1 question from a
choice of 2, aiming to spend approximately 40 minutes on this
part. Past exam papers can be found on the web at
http://www.vikdhillon.staff.shef.ac.uk/teaching.html.
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| lab work (30%): |
This is made up of various components - for further details please consult
the first-year astronomy guide.
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| problem sheets (10%): |
There are eight assessed problem sheets for this course, totalling 10%
of the total marks available for the PHY105 half-module. These problem
sheets will be handed out to you during the problems class each
week. You will be expected to complete as homework any problems that
you don't manage to finish during the class, and hand your solutions
in to your problems class leader the following week. The class leader
will mark them and then go through the solutions with you a week
later. |