Fast and Spurious: PostLab
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General Post-Lab Instructions
Your grade in post-lab assignments will be based on the clarity, accuracy, and insightfulness of your solutions. To receive full credit, your solutions must be complete, legible, and well-organized. Trivial algebraic mistakes that might lead to an incorrect answer will not count significantly against your grade. However, missing or incorrect explanations, even in the presence of a correct final answer, will be marked down.
Most problem parts will be graded on a scale from 0 points to 3 points based on the general rubric enumerated below. Your total grade for a post-lab will be based on the total number of points awarded across the entire post-lab.
- Little or no relevant work. Simply writing a few equations or copying facts from the problem will not be awarded any points.
- Some evidence of understanding but significant deficits. This could include pursuing a sub-optimal approach that ultimately fails, or providing a correct solution with little or no explanation.
- Significant evidence of understanding, but important flaws. Examples include using a sub-optimal approach to arrive at a correct (or nearly correct) answer; using a good approach while making one or more technical mistakes; using a good approach without adequate (or confused) reasoning; submitting a solution that is poorly communicated and difficult to grade.
- Clear, correct, and insightful. Such a solution need not be long. Concise and to the point is desireable.
Collaboration
You are allowed and even encouraged to discuss general strategies for solving the post-lab problems with your colleagues and the 6.310 staff. However, you are expected to submit your own independent solutions. Further details of our collaboration policies can be found here.
Problems: download here.
Solutions: download here.
How to Submit Solutions
You can prepare your solutions electronically or scan/photograph
paper and pencil solutions.
Solutions may be submitted as a single image file
or as a single pdf file
or as a zip file that contains multiple image and pdf files.
Files in a zip file should be numbered sequentially, e.g., page1.jpg, page2.jpg, etc.
Acceptable image files include gif, jpg, png, and eps.
