You may bring two sides of paper crammed with as many notes as you can fit. You must prepare these notes yourself, however, as part of the process of reviewing for the exam. This means that I will not provide equations on the exam itself.
Bring a calculator.
We have finished Chapter 4 of Y&F, so I consider you responsible for all the material up to and including Chapter 4. Since Chapter 5 is a more in depth version of Chapter 4, I'm suggesting some practice problems from the initial section of Chapter 5. Roughly speaking, I consider the following fair game:
If I ask about friction, it will not require coefficients of friction. If I use a pulley, it will be a simple (fixed) pulley problem.
Note that in past years the first midterm has included more topics; as you look at past exams, ignore questions that are beyond this year's scope.
Particular problems I have observed in the past: