Sunday, October 24, 2010

Poll on midterm content

Please feel free to vote on the midterm content poll --what you would like to see on the midterm-- and to comment here on that.

14 comments:

  1. I hope there aren't many things where we have to graph potential as a function of time, and other graphs like that...Hopefully the graphing will be quite simple?

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  2. Are we responsible for being able to calculate the torque on a dipole in an electric field?

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  3. "Are we responsible for being able to calculate the torque on a dipole in an electric field? "
    no

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  4. I hope there aren't many things where we have to graph potential as a function of time, and other graphs like that...Hopefully the graphing will be quite simple?

    There will be graphing. is exp{-t/tau} simple? From t = zero to 4 tau...

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  5. to what extend do we need to know about DIPOLE MOMENTS?

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  6. I hope to see quite a bit of material on Coulomb's law and Ohm's law.
    What do we need to know about doing integrals and derivitives?

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  7. Vicky: if you mean "p", not at all.
    basically nothing will be ask using that terminology

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  8. Could we have a bigger card?

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  9. Also, if we don't need to know "p" does that mean E=2kp/x^3 is unnecessary as well?

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  10. "Also, if we don't need to know "p" does that mean E=2kp/x^3 is unnecessary as well? "

    true.

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  11. "Could we have a bigger card?"

    No.
    you don't need a bigger card

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  12. i hope we do the examples from class with different numbers. the examples we worked on were fair, no too challenging, but required lots of understanding of the concepts. if you went to class, you know how to do them and you can't really learn them from the book. i hope there is no point at which we have to derive or integrate anything to get to the next step. you should be able to answer all questions conceptually, then elaborate with the math if you want the extra credit - or something along those lines.

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  13. How far into chapter 25 will the midterm cover?

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  14. the short answer is: "to the end."

    the long answer is: in the other posts on midterm preparation.

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