1. Relate the course physics concepts to some technology of interest to the students in this class.
2. Learn how to create and publish a website.
3. Work cooperatively with other students to accomplish this task.

• Create a website that explains the physics of some topic of interest to you and your classmates.  The physics concepts should be limited to topics that are covered in Physics 24.  The physics explanations should be as accurate and complete as possible, yet simple enough to be understood by your peers.
• Quality is more important than quantity or complexity of the website, but a general length guideline is one to two pages or screens per group member.
• At least one image (diagram or photo) and several hyperlinks should be included in the website.
• Java Applets, movie clips, sound files, and other fancy web features may be used to enhance your website, but they are not required and their absence will not affect your grade.
• Web pages should be stored in your university server space.
• Permission must be obtained to copy and publish any material that is not public domain. (Cutting and pasting from other websites without permission from the author is considered plagiarism.)  An acceptable alternative that does not require permission is to simply link to other websites (but you should alert the reader that they are linking to another site and identify the source if it is not obvious).

Each group will submit by email three (3) possible topics for their web project, ranked in order of preference.  Your instructor will select one of these topics for your group to research.  Topics will be selected based on the order they are received; no duplicate project topics are allowed.

Web projects will be evaluated by your peers and instructor.  Each student will review and comment on websites from two other groups (via WebAssign).  These student comments, along with comments from your instructor, will be given to the website authors, who will revise their sites for final grading and publication.

The websites will be primarily assessed by the quality of the physics explanations.  Organization, style, and readability are lesser considerations for grading.

A = complete and accurate physics explanations, good organization, style, and readability
B = mostly complete and accurate explanations, good readability
C = many incorrect or incomplete physics explanations or poor readability
F = no project submitted

To help promote proper group cooperation, each student will evaluate the contribution of each member of their group.  This contribution factor will be multiplied by the final score on the website, so that each student will be rewarded according to the work he or she contributes to the project.  If each member contributes equally, the individual contribution factor will be 1, and a member who does not participate at all will get a zero.

Creating a web page at UNC-CH
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