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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Exam No. 3 - details

As listed in the course syllabus, Exam No. 3 will be 7:00-8:00 PM on Thursday, November 29 in PHYS 112. You will be given an extra ten minutes to complete the exam if needed.

The exam will consist of three, full-length problems covering rigid body kinetics (Newton-Euler, work-energy and impulse momentum) and undamped free vibrations. All three problems will be taken from the following:
As you review these problems, focus not only on the how-to but also on understanding the concepts involved. Work lots of problems. Getting practice on a wide variety of problems will help out immensely in becoming prepared for the exam. Question every step in the solutions. If you do not fully understand something, ask for help.

For all questions on the exam, you will be asked to clearly identify the four steps needed for a kinetics analysis.

A review video has been posted on the Exam Page of the course website. Use this video to help guide you in preparing for the exam.

A copy of the exam cover and equation sheets is also found on the Exam Page.

Good luck on the exam.


6 comments:

Mburr said...

You say that the questions will be taken from the homework we have done and the quizzes. Does this mean that all the questions will be those problems or very similar with different numbers? Or is that just the material covered?

CMK said...

Similar, with some modifications. Recall that Problem 1 of Exam No. 2 was a modification of a problem from the lecture notes. This will be the type of modifications that you can expect.

Andrew Crandall said...

On the equation sheet you defined angular momentum as I*alpha, instead of I*omega.

CMK said...

Thanks for pointing out the typo. Will fix and repost.

Deepak Pillai said...

Hi Professor,

I would like to make sure about the topics covered in the exam.
On the website, its said that lectures 26-39 is covered for exam-3. On the blue handout that you gave damped vibrations is lecture 37. But you said in the blog, there will be questoin only from the undamped vibration. So does that mean that damped vobration is not included in this exam ?

CMK said...

Your observations are correct. However, there will no problem covering damped vibrations on Exam No. 3. That might appear on the final exam.