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Grading
- Nordita Master Class in Physics 2015 : Geometry of Chaos is a subset of the online course, covering roughly 4 weeks of ChaosBook reading, video lectures, homeworks, and forum discussions.
- This course is also a "hands-on" course in Python high-level scientific computing.
- Many of the homework assignments require computer programming. While you are free to use any computational tool that you are comfortable with, we are going to provide you Python script templates for computational assignments. Read the comments in Python script even if you are writing your own code - they complement the exercise text.
- We urge you to form a collaborative team on piazza and discuss the course and homework with your teammates (but not share or post the answers to homeworks).
- Your course grade will be based on your performance in 4 online homework assignments.
- You are expected to complete all 4 homeworks.
Course grade
will be calculated from your performance in the homework assignments:- Each homework will contribute equally to the final score.
- You may attempt each assignments up to 3 times, until the hard 13 August 2015 deadline. The maximum score from your attempts will be your score for the assignment. Here is an example of the grade you get if your submission was successful (alert us on piazza about possible bugs)
- Your final course grade will be the average of all your assignments scores.