Introductory Physics I: Mechanics and Wave Motion Final

Final exam: Wednesday, May 13, 9AM-noon in Merrill 1.

The review questions and past exams for the first two midterms apply equally well to the first two sets of topics on the final.  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.

Below are PDFs of past exams and suggested problems to prepare for the final.

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

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.

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

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

two from the second exam

1. friction
2. conservation of energy (work-energy theorem and potential and kinetic energies),
3. conservation of momentum
4. collisions

and two from the post-midterm material

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