Final exam

• The final exam score distribution is shown on the left. It is a nice bell-shape distribution. However, the final exam might have been a bit on the difficult side, since the average raw score was only 95 out of 200. The actual score used was the raw score plus 30 points.

• The final exam and the solutions.

• The final exam will be formatted much like the midterm exam.

• Review session: in our classroom, 5–6:45 PM on Friday (Mar 13) or 10–11:45 AM on Saturday (Mar 14). Bring your questions!

  • The review sessions focused mostly on going over materials, while practice problems were touched upon very briefly. Here is a short summary of some notable things discussed (and some information added after the review session) for practice problems.

• My barebone summary (sheet 2)—you can bring two sheets of letter-size paper filled on both sides of each sheet.

• Practice problems and some more. (Both these files are relevant for the exam.)

Homework

• Homework 7, due Mar 12: Light: single slit, diffraction grating, X-ray diffraction (solutions)

  • Correction: Problem 5(c) had errors in numbers---corrected.—8:40AM, Mar 10, 2015

• Homework 6, due Mar 5: Light: telescope, interference, polarization (solutions)

  • Correction: Homework 7 → Homework 6.—12:31PM, Mar 05, 2015

• Homework 5, due Feb 26: Light: Snell’s law, lenses, compound device (solutions)

• Homework 4, due Feb 19: Light: reflection and refraction (solutions)

• Homework 3, due Feb 5: Waves, Sound (solutions)

  • Correction: Homework 4 → Homework 3.—5:16PM, Jan 29, 2015

• Homework 2, due Jan 29: SHO and Waves (solutions, by TA David Jenkins)

• Homework 1, due Jan 20: Simple harmonic oscillation (hints) (solutions, by TA Amita Kuttner)

  • Change: due date.—1:41PM, Jan 12, 2015

Midterm

• The midterm score distribution is shown on the left.

• The midterm with solutions.

• The midterm exam is upon us. It will be held on Feb 12 in our classroom during our regular class schedule.

• Here is my barebone summary of relevant materials.

  • To the midterm, you can bring one letter size paper filled with potentially useful formulae and facts (like those contained in my summary 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).

• As a practice for the midterm exam, I recommend that you try the following.

  • Try the last year’s midterm. However, note that in this year’s exams, I do not intend to have any multiple choice questions.

  • Here are some more problems to try.

  For both these problem sets, if you come up with a nice and clean solution to any problem, you can present it on the forum, for potential extra credit.

• There will be a review session next week (one of Mo,Tu,We), but I am not certain what time that will be. It depends on students’ schedules and the room schedule. Here is my summary of the two review sessions.