Understanding the Moon (from Sep/2022 to Jan/2023)

Course overview

• Course name: "Understanding the Moon"
• Semester: first semester of academic year 2022
• from Sep/2022 to Jan/2023
• Course hours: from 18:00 to 19:50 on Thursday
• Classroom: A-106
• Instructor: Kinoshita Daisuke
• Prerequisites for this course
• high school level English
• high school level mathematics
• high school level physics
• a bit of patience to sit in the classroom for 2-hr per week
• a bit of patience to review the course material at dormitory room (or at home) for about 1-hr per week
• Language
• lecture given in Chinese
• course material written in English
• Grading
• Assignments: 50%
• 5 points × 10 assignments
• Final exam: 50%
• from 18:00 to 19:50 on 29/Dec/2022

Important notes about the course

Make sure to attend the first week class

• If you are willing to take this course, make sure to attend the first week class at 18:00 on 15/Sep/2022.
• Important information about the course is explained on 15/Sep/2022. Do not miss it.
• The first assignment is given on the first week, and you need to hand the first assignment by 20:00 on 15/Sep/2022. If you do not attend the class on 15/Sep/2022, you miss the first assignment and lose 5 points.
• If you did not attend the class on the first week of the semester, I do not recommend you take this course.

Use Wi-Fi or VPN of our University for downloading course material

• You need to use Wi-Fi of our University or VPN of our University to download course material.
• When you are in the classroom or in the dormitory room, use Wi-Fi of our University to download course material.
• Use of the Wi-Fi "NCUWL" is recommended. If you do not have registered for "NCUWL" yet, visit https://www.cc.ncu.edu.tw/page/wireless and read the instruction about the registration.
• When you are at home (or anywhere outside the University), use VPN of our University to download course material.
• If you do not know how to set up VPN on your computer (or tablet, or mobile phone), visit https://ncu.edu.tw/VPN/help and read the instruction how to set up VPN.

Come to the classroom every week

• Every semester, there are a few students who do not come to the classroom at all and do not hand assignments in. If you are not willing to learn about the Moon, do not take this course.
• If you do not hand assignments in and do not take the final exam, then you get zero points for this course.

If you need to contact to me...

• If you need to contact to me, come to the classroom at 18:00 on Thursday and talk to me at 10-min break or at the end of the class.
• If you cannot come to the classroom for some reason (e.g. sick, injury, family matter, etc.), use "Messages" function of "eeclass" system

Each course material is available for one week

• Make sure to download course material every week.

Course material, assignment submission form, GitHub repository, and Binder web page

Downloading course material

• Jumping to the page for downloading course material
• Important note:
• Use Wi-Fi of our university (e.g. "NCUWL") or VPN service of our university to download course material.
• "NCUWL"
• https://www.cc.ncu.edu.tw/page/wireless
• VPN
• https://ncu.edu.tw/VPN/help
• Pay attention whether you are using Wi-Fi or mobile network (4G or 5G) on your mobile phone.

Submission of assignments

• Jumping to the page for submission of assignment
• Important note:
• Use Wi-Fi of our university (e.g. "NCUWL") or VPN service of our university to download course material.
• "NCUWL"
• https://www.cc.ncu.edu.tw/page/wireless
• VPN
• https://ncu.edu.tw/VPN/help
• Pay attention whether you are using Wi-Fi or mobile network (4G or 5G) on your mobile phone.

GitHub repository

• GitHub repository for this course
• https://github.com/kinoshitadaisuke/ncu_moon_202209

Binder

• Binder web page for this course
• https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/kinoshitadaisuke/ncu_moon_202209/HEAD

Video files