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Final Exam study tips and materials

• Exam format: 2.5 hours, closed book, non-programmable calculator allowed. This formula sheet will be included with the exam. If you think the formula sheet is missing anything, let me know and I might put it on.
• Study tips:
  • Check out the course outline and the detailed learning goals here. These might help you organize your study.
  • Review textbook readings as well as all the supplementary notes posted on the Content page, and go over the lecture notes.
  • Review all clicker questions, posted with solutions here.
  • Make sure you know how to do all Problem Set questions (the solutions are on WebCT Vista).
  • Review the tutorials. Tutorials and their solutions are available on the Tutorials page.
  • Make sure you know how to do the questions from the two midterms. Answers are available on WebCT Vista.
• Two old final exams: 2007 and 2008.
• Solutions to these two exams: 2007 and 2008. I strongly recommend that you attempt the exams on your own before looking at the solutions. Please let me know if you find any mistakes in my solutions, so I can fix them for the benefit of all.
  
  List of available supplementary readings:
• Notes on Quantum Mechanics.
• Notes on complex numbers, polarizations, polarizers and photon states can be found under lectures 22 and 23 here.
• Notes on spacetime diagrams (courtesy of prof. van Raamsdonk)
• Definitions of proper time, length and distance
  
  List of simulations used in class and tutorials
• A simulation of the photoelectric effect.
• A simulation of black body radiation.
• A fourier mode simulator. Select 'wave packet' from the Preset Functions on the right to explore how wavepackets are built up from plane waves.
• A simulation of quantum wavepackets. You can use this simulation to study the motion of free wavepackets (select a flat potential) or to study the tunneling of wavepackets (select an barrier as the potential).
• A simulation of bound states in various potentials. This can be used to study stationary states and time dependence, or to study tunneling if you put in in the `double well' mode.
  
  
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Useful things to know/read/do/solve before the second Midterm:

• UPDATED (corrected a typo and added some formulas for photons) Formula sheet for the midterm (there will be a copy included with the exam)
• What is on the midterm? Info slides, including some suggestions on how to study for the midterm
• To organize your study, you might find it useful to look at the course outline and learning goals here (from Relativistic Energy and Momentum to Properties of Quanta of Light inclusive)
• Notes on complex numbers, polarizations, polarizers and photon states can be found under lectures 22 and 23 here
• Two old midterms: 2007 and 2008
• CORRECTED Solutions 2007 and 2008 I strongly suggest you try the midterms on your own before you look at the solutions. (A chocolate bar to the first person to find a substantative mistake in the solutions.)
• Lecture notes and clicker questions with answers are here
• Tutorials with solutions are here. I strongly suggest you work through the Tutorials, since they cover quite a bit of the required material.
• Problem Set solutions are on Vista

Useful things to know/read/do/solve before the first Midterm:

• NEW: formula sheet for the midterm (there will be a copy included with the exam)
• What is the midterm on, etc? - look at midterm info slides from the lecture
• To organize your study, you might find it useful to look at the course outline and learning goals here (up to but not including Relativistic Energy and Momentum)
• Notes on spacetime diagrams (courtesy of prof. van Raamsdonk)
• Definitions of proper time, length and distance
• Suggested practice problems from the book (pg 1179): 15, 18, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33. The problems on the old midterms (below) are better if you only have time to look at one and not the other. The book does not have particularly good problems.
• Two old midterms: 2007 and 2008
• Solutions: 2007 and 2008. I strongly suggest you try the midterms on your own before you look at the solutions. (A chocolate bar to the first person to find a substantative mistake in the solutions.)
• Lecture notes and clicker questions with answers are here
• Tutorials with solutions are here
• Problem Set solutions are on Vista

• Instructor: Joanna Karczmarek (Office: Hennings 280, 604-822-2929, Homepage)
• Lectures:
  
  • Monday: 1pm-2pm, Woodward Instructional Resources Center, room 4
    
  • Wednesday: 1pm-2pm, Woodward Instructional Resources Center, room 4
    
  • Friday: 1pm-2pm, Hennings 202
    
• Mandatory Tutorial: Thursday 11am-12:30pm in Woodward Instructional Resources Center, room 4.
• Textbook: Knight, "Physics for scientists and engineers," 2nd edition, Volume 5, ISBN 978-0-321-51655-8 (contains chapters 37-43). Note: The UBC bookstore has it bundled with MasteringPhysics and a Workbook, since the bundle was cheaper than the stand-alone book. These additional components are not required and will not be used; all you need is the book itself. Depending on which textbook you used for first-year physics, you might already own it, so check before you buy.
• Clickers: you will need an i>clicker for the lectures. i>clicker is a response system that will allow you to respond to questions I will ask during class. You will be graded on your in-class participation. If you don't already have a clicker, you can buy one at the UBC Bookstore. You will also need to register it; here are the instructions.
• An overview, course outline, and the learning goals can be found here (this is mostly last year's information, so it might change a bit, but not much).