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Final exam

Submitted by Nicholas C. Darnton (inactive) on Wednesday, 5/5/2010, at 12:29 PM

Review Session: TBD

Final exam: Friday, May 14, 9 AM - noon in Merrill 1.

This year's final

Submitted by Nicholas C. Darnton (inactive) on Friday, 5/14/2010, at 12:42 PM

Problems

Solutions

Logistics

Submitted by Nicholas C. Darnton (inactive) on Tuesday, 1/26/2010, at 9:46 PM

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

You may bring 8 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.

Topics

Submitted by Nicholas C. Darnton (inactive) on Wednesday, 5/5/2010, at 12:19 PM

The final exam will consist of 5 or 6 questions, drawn from the topics we have covered this semester:

uniformly accelerated motion (1D and 2D).
Newton's laws, including friction, pulleys and centripetal acceleration.
conservation of energy, including the work-energy theorem and potential and kinetic energies.
conservation of momentum, including collisions.
rotation, including uniformly accelerated motion and energy.
torque and conservation of angular momentum.
simple harmonic motion, including resonance.
waves, including traveling and standing waves.

Though I expect to put slightly more emphasis on the later part of the course (topics 5-9 above), I will include questions from the pre-midterm-2 material as well, so you should refresh your memory of topics from early in the semester.

Review

Submitted by Nicholas C. Darnton (inactive) on Friday, 5/7/2010, at 8:34 PM

The review questions and past exams for the midterms apply equally well to the first four 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.

From the textbook

Rotation, torque and angular momentum: 9.15, 9.20, 9.34, 9.49, 9.56, 9.83, 9.92, 9.98, 10.16, 10.26, 10.41, 10.52, 10.55, 10.56, 10.67, 10.76, and 10.93.

Periodic motion: 13.19, 13.26, 13.28, 13.33, 13.49, 13.53, and 13.58.

Waves: 15.12, 15.16, 15.30, 15.45, 15.56, 15.68, and 15.73.

Y&F review problems solutions