Overview
- Final Exam is worth 25% of the grade in the course
- Exam duration: 110 minutes
- Final Exam is cumulative
Subjects covered
The final exam will cover all of the material presented in class. This corresponds to selected topics in Chapters 01–11, 13-16 of College Physics, 1st Ed. By Knight, Jones & Field. Approximately half of the exam will focus on the material covered up to the second midterm with the other half focusing on the more recent material (i.e., chapters 10, 11, 13-16). These more recent topics include:
- Ch. 10: Concept of energy, energy transformations and transfers, conservation of energy and isolated systems, definition of work Kinetic and potential energy, thermal energy, energy in collisions, power
- Ch. 11: Use of energy in the human body, calories, efficiency
- Ch. 13: Properties of fluids, density, pressure, dependence of pressure on depth in an incompressible fluid, Archimedes' principle (buoyant force), Bernoulli's principle
- Ch. 14: Simple harmonic motion, period, frequency, restoring force, mass oscillating on a spring, pendulums, energy conservation and transformations in simple harmonic motion, resonance
- Ch. 15: Wave properties, medium, wave speed, sinusoidal waves, wavelength, amplitude, longitudinal and transverse waves, intensity and dB, doppler effect, shock waves
- Ch. 16: Principle of superposition, constructive and destructive interference, standing waves and resonant modes, fundamental frequencies and harmonics, interference of two waves, beats
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Materials allowed
- You will be provided
- You should bring:
- A writing implement (pencil & a clean eraser recommended)
- You may bring a standard scientific or graphing calculator.
- You may not use:
- Devices with radio or infrared communication capabilities (cellular telephones, pagers, PDAs such as Palm Pilots)
- Audio devices (MP3 players, walkmans, etc.)
- Your text book or your notes
Conflict Exams
Scheduling of the final exams is done by the Office of the Registrar. Conflict exams can ONLY be requested through the registrars office during the conflict signup period. More detail is available on the Registrars Exam WebSite.
Sample Exams
The following sample exam is provided to give students a feel for the format of the exam as well as the type of questions which may be asked. Every attempt has been made to make the sample exam representative of the type and scope of the real exam, but reviewing the sample exam should not be your only method of preparation.
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