Exams will be self-scheduled, on the dates and at the times indicated. When you are ready to take the exam, and have a free hour, come to the observatory, take the exam in the observatory classroom, and hand it in when you are finished.

The exam will be a mixture of short answer, multiple choice followed by your explanatory diagrams, short math problems (as in the homework problems), and brief essays.

EXAM 1

F, Oct 17: 9am-5pm

Discussion section W 10/15

Study questions

The formulas you need will be on the first page of the exam. Spend your time learning how to use them rather than memorizing them. Here is an example of how they might look on the page.

Key
Grades

F Nov 21: 9am-5pm

Study questions

Key
Grades

Wave Theory
Electromagnetic Theory
Electricity & Magnetism
Photon Theory
Biochemistry of vision

during exam week 12/13-12/18

Review the study guides and keys to the previous exams

Review the solutions to homework problems

Final study guide and office hours

Please do a course evaluation

Theories of light
Photoelectric Effect
Greenhouse effect
Temperature of the planet
Origin of the elements
Radioactivity
Age of the earth
Age of the Universe

"Redemption" points for topics on previous two exams