Information about the 221 Final

Last updated 12/6/07

Topics covered on the final:

• Topics covered: Comprehensive (Review items in main syllabus).
• Time, date, place: Thursday, 9:00AM - 12:00AM, 12/13/05.
• Review session (A.K.A. Stump the instructor):  Tuesday, Dec. 11 at the regular class period. I will also be around Tuesday and Wed. afternoon for questions. All late course work is due on Tuesday. Dec. 11 by noon.
  

Hints for the Final!?

• One sheet of equations allowed.
• You must show the instructor an empty calculator memory before the test starts.
• Any interesting material from these chapters not covered in class is a possible bonus question.
• Be sure to review tests, quizzes, homework and inclass problems. Anything that was covered but not on an earlier test is more likely to be on the final. Anything that everyone did poorly on in an earlier test is more likely to be on the final.
• The following topics are the most important of the semester (and so are more likely to appear on the final):
• Adding, subtracting, multiplying vectors (both ways- vector and cross product).
• Kinematics including projectile motion.
• Relativity (a question, not a problem).
• Newton's laws. Don't forget about friction, incline planes.
• Work and energy of various types.
• The great conservation laws:
  
• Conservation of energy.
  
• Conservation of momentum.
  
• Conservation of angular momentum.
• Pressure, Archemedies' principle.
• Kinetic theory (evaporation, Brownian motion, definition of temperature).
• First law of thermodynamics (heat, internal energy, work done by a gas).
• Second law of thermodynamics (entropy, multiplicity, efficiency).
• Harmonic motion (simple, damped, driven) and resonance (a question, not a problem).
• Questions about lab exercises.
  
• A bonus question about chaos.