Final exam

• Here is some information about the final exam grading.

• Here is the final exam with solutions.

  

• What to bring to the exam:
  • two US-letter sized crib sheets (each 2-sided; so total 4 pages)
  • pens/pencils

  • a simple calculator

  • a very well-rested brain of yours

  • your drink (optional)
• Review session summary: The only snapshot that was taken during the review session was the above one showing the sign convention for the lens maker's equation. We went over review sheet materials.

• Review sheet for the final (part 2) Three minor corrections were made in this file. The most significant one is $\lambda \rightarrow \lambda_f$ at the end of the thin film interference discussion.

• Practice exam (as a pdf file). Practice exam (in the forum). Please start from equations in my review sheet, if possible at all, when you present solutions. I find some solutions difficult to understand.

Homework

• Homework 8, due Mar 13: Light (solutions)

• Homework 7, due Mar 6: Lens, Interference (solutions)

• Homework 6, due Feb 27: Snell’s law, Lens+ (solutions, by TA D. Thorngren)

  • Correction: The solution for prob. 6 (33-10) is now corrected. The grading was done correctly.—7:22PM, Mar 06, 2014

• Homework 5, due Feb 20: Mirror and Snell’s law (solutions, by TA E. Miller)

• Homework 4, due Feb 11: Waves, Sound (solutions, by TA K. Matsuyama)

• Homework 3, due Jan 30: Waves (solutions)

  • Score Statistics: 69 ± 44 (out of 120).

  • Addition: Hooke’s law part for 1(a). Note that Hooke’s law is applicable to any spring as a whole, if the spring is uniformly deformed (as in a static sitatuaion or in a SHM). It is just that when a wave is going through the spring, Hooke’s is applicable only at the nano-scale level.—12:39PM, Jan 27, 2014

• Homework 2, due Jan 24: SHM and Waves (solutions, by TA D. Jenkins)

  • Score Statistics: 73 ± 25 (out of 80).

  • Change: due date is this Friday (24th).—2:38PM, Jan 21, 2014

  • Correction: Problem 2 is an extra credit problem.—7:33PM, Jan 17, 2014

• Homework 1, due Jan 16: Simple harmonic oscillation (solutions, by TA M. Baugh)

  • Score Statistics: 73 ± 22 (out of 90).

Midterm exam

• Midterm exam with solutions

• Midterm review summary

• Review sheet for the midterm (with one change describe in this page)

• Practice exams for the upcoming midterm, and my review sheets: part 1 (review 1) and part 2 (review 2). (Crossed out parts do not apply for the upcoming midterm.)

  • It is planned that my updated review sheet for the upcoming exam will be provided by me, by sometime early next week.
  • For the midterm, you can bring one letter size paper filled with potentially useful formulae and facts (like those contained my review sheet).

  • You should also bring a simple calculator for the midterm (not a graphing calculator; a smart phone is not allowed, and neither is any internet connected device).

  • Review: Tue, Feb 11, 6-8 PM, Thimann 3.

Questionnaire

• The vast majority of students turned this in in the first class, but some students missed it. If you are one of them who missed it, please download it, fill it out, and return it to me.