Final Exam info

Tuesday 17 May 2004.    12:30 - 2:30 p.m.    Gosnell (08) - 1250
Our exams will NOT be white -- probably green.

Details of chapters in text added at bottom of page.

The final exam is cumulative: it can have questions on any or all of the topics we have discussed this quarter.

There will be a multiple choice section and more multiple choice / short answer than on the hour tests (I think) -- I need something I can grade in a reasonable time for many students!

You should expect

• approx. 20% on thermodynamics: the material after the 3rd test.
  
  • Look especially the pre-class WebAssign A9.2 on thermo, and Web PS 9 on thermo. There will be a melting ice / vaporizing water question and a pV diagram with a cycle question.
  • You should know the laws of thermodynamics (0, 1, and 2) by number.
     
• there will be about 15-20% associated with multiple choice questions common to all 312 final exams.
   
• the other approx. 65% will be divided between the topics for the first 3 tests:
• rotational motion: kinematics, conservation of energy and angular momentum, torques and acceleration
• rolling motion
• simple harmonic motion and oscillations ... resonance
• waves: in general (what makes new wave of same frequency and wavelength, what makes beats, constructive and destructive interference), sound (resonant frequencies on strings, organ pipes, etc.), and light (single slits, 2 or more slits, and gratings)
• probably single slit, double slits, and/or grating ...
   
• Don't forget the take-home part of the final posted to WebAssign as PS10. Enter all of the numerical answers on WebAssign and write something (the answer or anything else in the essay box, so you get credit for it), but I will read the PAPER essay answers and grade those.

Probable formula sheet. Sample Final Exam (pdf). Solutions:   p1   p2   p3   p4   p5   p6   p7   jpeg's   

Chapters in text book:

Ch. 11
12
13, sections [1-3], 5 (briefly)
16.1-6, [7]
17
18.1-7, [8]
34 -- sections on class handout on spectrum and polarization
35.1-4, lab on Lenses
36.1-7
37.1-3, 5-7
19.1-8, 10
20.1-3, [4, 7 ability to use formulas but not to derive them]
21 -- only the take-home [WebAssign] part of the final -- there will be nothing on the in-class final from this chapter

Sections in [square brackets], we only highlighted -- maybe only in lecture, maybe we only used the formula instead of going into it in detail, ...