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PHYS 110 Exams |
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The handout at right provides guidance on grading yourself after you finish your test. |
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Partial List of Topics Covered Anything in the book or lectures/labs is also fair game |
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Ch 1: Scientific vs Engineering Notation, SI prefixes, identifying the proper number of sig figs, performing mathematical operations while tracking the number of sig figs, putting units on answers, math review, solving problems algebraically, understand when to put units on an answer (and when not to do so), dimensional analysis, making a scatter plot in Excel
Chapter 3: Coordinate Systems, Changing vectors between Cartesian and polar forms, creating unit vectors from a given arbitrary vector, performing dot and cross products, determine the angle between two given vectors with a dot product, practice with both 2D and 3D vector word problems
TIP: I plan to put vector stuff on EVERY EXAM. Might as well study the crap out of it BEFORE test 1.
Read about the definitions of position, displacement, and distance. These words are used in problems in chapter 3. Other than the knowledge of these definitions, Chapter 3 problems can be done without any of Chapter 2. |
Unless otherwise specified, assume all exams on this page are designed for an 80 minute testing period.
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Chapter 2: 1D motion definitions, 1D motion word problems, 1D motion graphing, sometimes multi-stage (e.g. cop n speeder or deer in headlights)
Chapter 4: 2D motion, standard projectile word problems, non-standard projectiles (sometimes a_x is non-zero), relative motion |
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Chapter 5: Forces, Newton’s laws, Free Body Diagrams, shortcuts and algebra tricks for force problems
Chapter 6: Friction included in force problems, circular motion force problems |
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Practice Final |
When writing this practice final I totally spaced out and forgot to include vector stuff!!! Be sure to hit chapter 3 in the workbook & vector questions from all the t1’s pretty hard.
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Handwritten solution.
PHYS 110 is the only class I give a practice final. Think: if you really do all the other work, you’re probably going to do just fine on a final.
This practice final should take you 4-6 hours. Your real final, to last 2 hours, will perhaps have 10 questions over 9 pages. The questions will probably include a few conceptual, a few all algebraic , and a few numerical (using numbers with units).
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