Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Studying for the final

Here's what I just wrote one of you in an email. I thought it would be useful info for everyone to see.

PH102 and PH106 do cover basically the same material - the only real difference is that PH106 uses calculus, and PH106 does not. (Well, also PH102 covers modern physics, and PH106 does not).

I would say looking at PH102 homework problems and exams is probably just as good as looking at PH106 problems - the sorts of problems are exactly the same, the only difference from what I'll ask on the final is a bit higher level of math.

Narrowing it down, probably the Spring 2008 homework sets are the most valuable of all the PH102 stuff, followed by Spring 2008 exam 2 and the Spring 2008 final exam. A good approach would be to look at both the PH102 and PH106 homework sets for the problem part of the exam, and the quick quizzes in the text for the multiple choice part.

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