Friday's exam

The exam is basically going to cover chapters 28-31, but not quite every section. Specifically, the following sections are "fair game:"

• Ch. 28, Sect. 1-5
• Ch. 29, Sect. 1-4
• Ch. 30, Sect. 1-7
• Ch. 31, Sect. 1-7

More or less, these are also the sections I focused on more in the lecture periods. The exam will have a total of 6 or 7 questions, and you will have to pick 3 of them to solve. All problems will have equal weight, so you can really choose any three problems you like and solve those. There will be heavy partial credit, so even if you can't finish a chosen problem, get as far as you can and show as much work as possible. The more I think you knew what you were doing, the better you will do.

The problems will be similar to the homework problems, but easier - not as many steps, not quite so much math. Not so easy as the quiz questions though. You can bring in one formula sheet, front and back, with whatever you like on it, and I will also provide the basic formulas and numerical constants required.

My suggestion is to study the homework solutions and the example problems in the textbook. This one is going to test problem solving ability more than memorization, so the logical thing to do is solve as many practice problems as you can.

For example, you could look here for some good solved problems.