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Past ExaminationsKarin Rabe, 2011Here is a collection of past exams from Physics 228. Previous years' exams had numerical questions, as well asmultiple choice questions. There are no solutions to 2003 exams. 2005 exams have solutions included. We will have exclusively multiple choice questions in this year's exams. There will be about 15 questions each in Common Hour Exams 1 and 2, to be answered in 80 mins. There will be about 30 questions in the final, to be answered in 3 hours. TIPS on how to use these exams to study. We recommend the following step-by-step procedure: (1) right after you complete each homework, you identify the problems on the old exams that correspond to each chapter (we may provide some additional guidance on this). (2) Take each problem and try to do it without looking at the book or your notes. If you need to look something up, transfer it onto the draft of the formula sheet you should be preparing for the upcoming exam. If you are confused, re-read the relevant section of the book and try again. If you are still confused, ask an instructor for help. (3) Check your answer against the answer key. If you got it right, great -- go to the next problem! If you got it wrong, figure out why. If you did something "stupid" (including: didn't read the problem/answers carefully, forgot about units, made a calculator error, or had the right answer but chose the wrong letter) put it on a checklist on your formula sheet. If you had a wrong equation on your formula sheet, correct it. If you can't figure out what did wrong, re-read the relevant section of the book and try again. If you still cannot get the right answer, ask an instructor for help.
Karin Rabe (rabe@physics.rutgers.edu) Last modified: April 30, 2011 |