Goal specification due September 8. Due dates October 11, November 10, December 7. Due dates February 16, March 30. Team members should share common interest in a goal. There are goal-dependent limits on team size, outside of which the team becomes ineffective or unwieldy.
Good teams have good balance of skills and abilities.
Joining a team is a voluntary action, but becomes a commitment not to be broken lightly. Goals - Teams will propose project goals in writing and deliver them to the class in oral presentations. Acceptable goals in the context of this course must have strong, identifiable physics content and must include a tangible result, such as a working apparatus, a documented measurement, a functioning computer program, or some combination of these. A suitable goal should be achievable within the timeframe of two semesters. It is a folk legend among practicing physicists that most tasks take between p and p 2 times as long as expected, and it is frequently necessary to redefine goals in order to meet deadlines.