Here are some information for the final.
- The final will be on Tuesday, March 20, 4-7 pm.
- Location to be announced.
- It will cover all the material in the syllabus.
- There will be a review session,on Sunday March 18, 7:30 pm
in LSB 1001.
- You can bring two sheets of notes to the final. You can write on both sides.
- Calculators are allowed.
- Bring a blue book. Pen or pencil also.
- Here are two old finals for practice. Note: in 2013 the course
was based on the previous edition of Purcell, and that edition used
cgs units. As a result, some of the equations in the solutions look
a bit different, and the expression for the displacement current density
in Problem 8 differs from the expression in SI units by a factor
of $4 \pi \epsilon_0$. Also, problem 1 on the 2013 final is on material
that was (or should have been) covered in Physics 23 this year, so you should
not worry about it for the purpose of preparing the Physics 24 final.
The 2018 final has been graded. You can pick it up from Debbie, Broida 5014.
- Here is the test.
- Here are the solutions
Here are the distributions of scores for the combined, the final (50%), the midterm (35%), and the homework (15%).
The correspondence between the combined score and the letter grade is:
- > 96 A+
- > 84 A
- > 80 A-
- > 76 B+
- > 70 B
- > 66 B-
- > 63 C+
- > 59 C
- > 56 C-
- > 54 D+
- > 50 D
I rounded some student's letter grades up if the score on the final was
significantly better than the homework/midterm. This was a
judgement call at my discretion, please do not try to argue your case.
