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Final exam

Submitted by Nicholas C. Darnton (inactive) on Tuesday, 1/27/2009, at 12:37 PM

2008F questions

2008F answers

Distribution of scores

Past exams and review questions

Submitted by Nicholas C. Darnton (inactive) on Tuesday, 1/6/2009, at 5:44 PM

	Questions	Solutions
2008F exam
practice problems
S-J review questions
2007F exam
2006F exam

Final exam details

Submitted by Nicholas C. Darnton (inactive) on Saturday, 12/13/2008, at 1:26 PM

Logistics

The final exam counts for slightly less than 25% of your grade.

You may bring 6 sides of crib notes of any kind to the exam, provided you prepare the notes yourself. If you're uncertain of any mathematical formulas (such as trig identities or the quadratic formula), write them down.

Bring a calculator.

I write them all myself, so it is extremely unlikely that you will have seen any of the problems on the test before. Since you will be attempting a new, previously unseen problem, at some point you should stop going over past problems and get some sleep in order to have a fresh brain for the exam.

We will have a review session on Friday from 3 PM onward. There is no official venue scheduled: let's attempt to meet in Merrill 211.

Topics

The final exam will consist of about 6 questions, drawn from the topics we have covered this semester. Two will come from material from the first midterm

uniformly accelerated motion (1D and 2D)
Newton's laws

two from the second exam

friction
conservation of energy (work-energy theorem and potential and kinetic energies),
conservation of momentum
collisions

and two from the post-midterm material

rotation (uniformly accelerated motion, torque, moment of inertia and energy)
simple harmonic motion
waves (traveling and standing waves; resonance)

Review

The review questions and past exams for the first two midterms apply equally well to the first two sets of topics. I will post suggested review questions, and problems for the last set in the near future.

In addition, the makeup assignments on the MasteringPhysics website can be used as review – and will count as credit towards any points you may have missed on the problem sets.