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PHY231 First Midterm exam info

Study guides

A summary of some exam study guidelines and a list of basic equations to expand upon can be found here: pdf or pptx
Practice problems and solutions have been posted in the lecture note sections of both sections.

When and where

Thursday, February 17. Time and place are the same as your regular PHY231 lecture for your section.

Material covered:

Week 1-4 on posted schedule ( http://www.nscl.msu.edu/~schatz/PHY231/schedule.html). This includes everything covered in lectures, homework, and listed chapters in the book for these 4 weeks.
Roughly speaking this is all material through and including Energy and Work. The exam will not cover impulse and momentum.

What to bring:

calculator
one single equation/note sheet, letter size, both sides can be used. This can be typed or handwritten. Note that we will collect the equation sheet used, so you need to keep a copy for later use.
pencil

Other rules:

You cannot use or have on your table anything but the items listed above, the exam papers handed out to you, and the bubble form. You cannot use or have within reach your own note paper, books, cell phones, ipads/ipods, computers, etc
The exam paper will include empty pages for carrying out the calculations. The exam paper and the bubble form are the only paper you can write on.
All paper used during the exam will be collected afterwards, including your equation sheet.
Don't open the exam until you are told to do so.
Stop writing when the time is up.
If there is anything unclear about a question please raise your hand and ask. Obviously we will only make clarifications of the questions and not give any hints concerning solutions.
All constants and unit conversions needed will be provided.

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