Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Analysis

Just in passing, I noticed something about an old final exam in my files. There were questions from chapters 2-8, 11-13, 15, 20-23. Normal for a cumulative final exam.

However, there were more questions relating to chapters 3, 6, 7, 20 and 22 than to other chapters. Chapter 12 also had a good number of questions. Let's take a look at general topics of these chapters:
  1. Newton's three laws of motion
  2. momentum
  3. energy
  4. Bernoulli :)
  5. Coulomb interaction
  6. Electromagnetism


If exams are about what the instructor considers important, then the above list is a mini-snapshot of my mind, PSC1121-wise..... at least, for that semester.

What about this semester's final exam? We have a few chapter 19 and chapter 24 concepts beyond what that past semester covered. So...

It is just a passing thought. I cannot tell you what will be on this semester's final exam, but it might behoove you to look back to the past in order to prepare for the future. :)