Galileo Galilei
Tycho Brahe
FINAL EXAM ANNOUNCEMENT
The final exam in Physics 106 will be given on Friday, May 9th, 2008 from 8:00-11:00AM in the Van Dyck 211 Lecture Hall, our regular classroom. Each student will have an assigned seat.
Professor Leath will be giving a review session for the final exam during the last regular class period on Monday, May 5th. There will be no prepared material presented at this time, but students are should be prepared to ask questions, and get help with any of the homework exercises, sample exam questions, lecture notes, lab experiments, textbook chapters and any other covered materials as they have studied for the exam. Lab notebooks and the final homework assignment will also be collected for final grading at this time. In addition, Professor DeBuvitz will be holding tutorial review sessions, which are very useful and are highly recommended, each Friday morning from 10:00AM-12:00 Noon in Scott 207. Sample final exam questions are available on this Website under "Exam Information".
The exam will cover materials from the textbooks, and lectures. There are substantial topics that were covered in the lectures, but which were not well covered in the textbooks. So be sure to study the lecture notes. The final exam will be a comprehensive exam and will have questions on materials from throughout the course but will focus more heavily on the material since the second exam, i.e.-Lectures 13-28 and the assigned chapters in Hobson and Gamow. There will be fifteen questions on the three-hour exam. Each question can be answered with a short answer from a couple of sentences to a short paragraph. You may draw diagrams if they are useful for your answer. The exam will be closed-book. You may bring two 8.5 x 11" sheets of notes in your own handwriting (no xerox copies), your student ID card, and several pencils or pens to the exam. No communication devices, cell phones, backpacks, etc. are allowed. If you bring them, you will have to leave them at the front of the room during the exam.
If you need to miss the exam for a valid reason (such as an exam conflict or a medical problem), you may qualify for the make-up exam. Contact Professor Leath in advance (if at all possible) and in any case, provide a written note explaining the reason for missing the exam.
Finally, in this last class on Monday, May 5, the lab notebooks of each student will be collected again for grading of the last four lab experiments (specific heat, electric motor, muon decay, and atomic spectra). The graded lab notebooks will be returned at the final exam. Please put your name on the outside front cover of your lab notebook.
The final exam and course grades will be posted on the course web site. You may see your graded final exam by arranging to see Professor Leath after the course.
This course is designed for humanities and social science students. There are no prerequisites and no mathematical problem-solving. The course will focus upon major astronomical and physical discoveries in the scientific and social context of their time, from Aristotle to the present. Topics will include Greek astronomy and science, Galileo, Newton, the mechanical universe, gravity, entropy, the arrow of time, electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic induction and waves, optics, relativity, quantum theory, X-rays, atoms, nuclei, anti-matter, and black holes. The emphasis will be on understanding the world in which we live and how things work around us, from nature, to simple devices, to high-tech equipment. The course will be conceptual, qualitative, and, hopefully, student-active, with class discussions and simple hands-on experiments conducted at the Math/Science Learning Center.
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Galileo Galilei |
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