Exam Guidelines
Exam 1 is coming up on Monday. The exam will be held during your lab period, but will take place in the lecture room. It will take you 60-90 minutes. Don't be late. Here's what it will cover:
Electric Forces & Fields (Ch. 15 in the text)Electrical Energy & Capacitance (Ch. 16 in the text)
Current & Resistance (Ch. 17 in the text)
See the course schedule for the particular sections in each chapter you are responsible for. Note also that relativity is absent. The material we cover tomorrow (Friday) will be on the test.
The format of the exam will be (approximately) 6 problems (i.e., solving stuff, no multiple choice), you pick any 5 to solve. Put another way, I'll give you 6 problems, you can skip any one of them you like, they are all worth the same amount. To head off an obvious question: if you do all six, I may grade all six and take the best 5. Or, I might just grade the first 5. Who knows. Your best bet if you do all six is to tell me which 5 you want me to grade.
I will provide a formula sheet with all relevant constants and basic formulas, a list which should be sufficient to solve all problems. Additionally, you are allowed to bring in a single 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper with your own notes, formulas, etc. -- anything you want, really. Front and back sides are allowed, I will allow two sheets with only a single side if you prefer that. You are additionally allowed writing implements and a calculator (i.e., not a cell phone or any network-enabled device). You can feel free to program your calculator in arbitrary ways, however, just no internet or peer-to-peer communication of any kind.
I don't know if I can stress enough that you should not forget your calculator.
More details will follow over the next couple of days. For now, I suggest reading the chapters and old homework/exam solutions.
5 comments:
I noticed you didn't cover drift velocity and collisions from section 4.4.1 on page 108 in your notes, is this something we should know for the test? (example 17.2 in the book)
You can safely ignore 4.4.1 in the notes, and I will not ask something as involved as example 17.2.
You said that the exam would cover what we covered Friday (DC circuits), but here it says only through chapter 17. DC circuits, however, are in chapter 18, so I was just trying to clear that up. Thanks.
What I was obtusely saying was that I'm not going to ask anything from Ch. 18, even though I said you were responsible for that material.
Having made up the exam now, I came up with enough questions without digging in to chapter 18.
Think of it as one less thing to worry about at the last minute :-)
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