OPENING QUESTION: Good Morning! Welcome back and I hope you had a MOST relaxing and refreshing (?) break. If your team is kind of small today (1 or 2 members only), please reconfigure yourself with another group that is also missing folks-- but please, no more than 4 per group (Thank You!)

Let's ease into things <gently> today and please take a few (hopefully MORE than a few!) moments to share tidbits from your break with your team!

When you have finished, please appoint/elect or otherwise have one person in your group briefly share your conversations with the class!

NOTE: Please do take this seriously and have *pleasant* discussions. I'll revisit this tomorrow when I'm back and we can swap travel stories.

I know that sounds kind of odd for a physics class, but as many of you know, I'm a *HUGE* fan of travel-- especially internationally. It can be scary, exciting, frustrating and exhilarating, frequently all in the same day (I'll share a few bits from my current trip with you by way of elaboration!)

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Now -- BACK to the Coefficient of Friction Lab:

Let's have that same team leader guide your group through a conversation of this lab, and the primary goals for this lab.

There is a LOT going on and it's been two weeks since we've even looked at it so it may (and SHOULD) take a bit of recollecting to get your entire team on the same page (THAT IS KEY!)

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Please take *particular* note of the graphing requirements for this lab--- they are a lot more problematic then they might appear.

This was a significant problem for many students in that they DID provide a graph, but when looking at that graph there was no possible way to analyze the data on it.

In other words, just providing a graph and calling it good is likely going to get you into trouble.

Work with your team to have a MEANINGFUL conversation on the type and content of the graph that you propose to use in this lab. Please avoid conversing with other teams on this, I'll lead a conversation on this tomorrow.

If time permits, begin working on your lab write up.

Remember, collaborating is awesome, copying and pasting is NOT (grrrr....)

I look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!