Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Final exam

The following topics will be fair game for the final (text sections in parentheses). If I don't list it, it isn't covered. The listed sections in the textbook relate directly to sections in the notes, if you look at the topic headings for each section.

Relativity (26.1-6)
Electrical forces and fields (15.1-6,9)
Electrical energy (16.1-4,6-10)
Current & resistance (17.1-4,6)
dc circuits (18.1-5)
magnetism (19.1-9, excl. Ampere's law)
induction (20.1-6)
ac circuits / EM waves (21.1-3, 7, 10-12 + filters)
Reflection & refraction (22.1-5, 7)
Mirrors / lenses (23.1-6)
Quantum physics (27.1-2, 5-8)
Atomic physics (28.1-4)

Parts of chapters 27-28 we have not covered yet, and that is the subject of the lectures on Tues and Wed.

The exam will be broken up into (probably) three sections, and in each section you will have to solve something like 3/4 or 3/5 problems. The sections will be logical groupings of material, for example:

Section 1: electric forces, field, energy
Section 2: current, resistance, dc circuits
Section 3: magnetism, induction, ac circuits
Section 4: optics
Section 5: quantum, atomic physics

I'm not saying this is exactly how it will be, but more or less.

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