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Log of lecture topics and notes is here.

TurningPoint lessons are here.

Course gradebook is here.

Exam regulations: Your are required to abide by the following:

We treat cheating with zero tolerance. The consequences of cheating are at a minimum that the score for work on which cheating occurs counts as 0, and a letter detailing the cheating is sent to the student's advisor, the dean of CAS, and placed in the student's academic file. Possible further consequences are referral to Academic Conduct Committee, and additional penalties, including possible expulsion from university.

No electronic devices may be used. No electrronic devices (cell phones, etc.) are allowed in the exam rooms. All electronic or other communication is forbidden. No books or notes are allowed in the exam rooms. All calculations are to be done by hand and so no calculational aids (calculators, PDA's, portable PC's, slide rules, etc.) are allowed in the exam rooms.

Please do your exam in non-erasable black or blue ink; exams done in pencil or in erasable ink will not be accepted for regrading. Please use only the exam paper provided. Scrap paper may not be used. Points will be deducted for answers reported to an incorrect number of significant figures and if proper units are not used throughout each calculation. A periodic table, physical constants, major formulas, and representative values of base 10 logarithms will be provided as appropriate. All work must be shown to receive credit.

Here are locations, topics, and results lecture exams, lab exams, and the final exam in this course.

Quantum concepts assessment, Monday, September 13, 2010. No preparation is necessary. This assessment determines your familiarity with quantum concepts. Your answers will be used as the baseline to measure your subsequent learning about quantum concepts during this semester. Your score will not affect your course grade. Please do bring a calculator to this pretest.

The exam is held in the following locations, 5–7 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

  • Last name starts with A–Ca go to CAS/522
  • Last name starts with Cb–Di go to SED/130
  • Last name starts with Dj–F go to SHA/110
  • Last name starts with G–He go to CAS/B12
  • Last name starts with Hf–M go to MOR/101
  • Last name starts with N–O go to SCI/115
  • Last name starts with P–Sc go to STO/B50
  • Last name starts with Se–V go to COM/101
  • Last name starts with W–Z go to KCB/101

Lecture exam 1, Monday, September 27. The exam is based on all lecture, lab, and discussion material through all of Laird ch 0. You are required to have memorized the information in Tables 0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6, and in Figures 0.9 and 0.10.

The exam is held in the following locations, 5–7 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

  • Last name starts with A–Ca go to CAS/522
  • Last name starts with Cb–Fi go to COM/101
  • Last name starts with Fj–Fz go to CAS/323B
  • Last name starts with G–Ja go to STO/B50
  • Last name starts with Jb–La go to PHO/206
  • Last name starts with Lb–Ph go to CGS/129
  • Last name starts with Pi–Z go to MOR/101

Results: Here are the number of people in each score range. The average score for exam 1 was 59.6/100 = 59.6% (shown as the vertical line); the high score was 98/100 = 98.0%; 884 people took the exam. Last updated Tuesday, September 28, 2010 16:42:15.

exam 1 results

Lecture exam 2, Monday, October 18. The exam is based on all lecture, lab, ALEKS, WebAssign and discussion material through the first 27 pages of Quantum aspects of light and matter, http://bit.ly/bSSxJu, and all of Why atoms don't collpase, http://bit.ly/cDfbkZ and the associated pages of Laird indicated in these notes.

The exam is held in the following locations, 5–7 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

Results: Here are the number of people in each score range. The average score for exam 2 was 49.1/100 = 49.1% (shown as the vertical line); the high score was 100/100 = 100.%; 856 people took the exam. Last updated Tuesday, October 19, 2010 14:33:05.

exam 2 results

Labs 5 and 6 post test, Monday, October 25

The exam is held in the following locations, 5–7 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

Lecture exam 3, Monday, November 15. The exam is based on Laird ch 1 Table 1.4 and pages 114--119, Laird ch 2 (except pages 127--130), all of Laird ch 3 and the first two sections (pp 222--240) of Laird ch 4, on the notes

Bonding in diatomic molecules
PDF, 25 pages, http://bit.ly/afkIlf

and on all corresponding lecture, lab, ALEKS, WebAssign and discussion material.

The exam is held in the following locations, 5–7 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

Results: Here are the number of people in each score range. The average score for exam 3 was 70.0/100 = 70.0% (shown as the vertical line); the high score was 100/100 = 100.%; 809 people took the exam. Last updated Tuesday, November 16, 2010 15:41:11.

exam 3 results

Lab 7 post test, Monday, November 22

The exam is held in the following locations, 5–7 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

Lab exam, Monday, December 6, 2010.

The exam is held in the following locations, 5–7 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

Final exam, Thursday, December 16, 5–7 pm. The final exam is based everything covered this semester, listed here. Material since the third exam may constitute 25–40% of the final exam.

Guided final exam preparation sessions will take place Monday, December 13, as detailed here.

The exam is held in the following locations, 5–7 pm. Go to the location below according to the first letter(s) of your last name. The building abbreviations below are here and the campus map is here.

Results: Here are the number of people in each score range. The average score for the final exam was 50.9/100 = 50.9% (shown as the vertical line); the high score was 98/100 = 98.0%; 744 people took the exam. Last updated Saturday, May 14, 2011 08:52:41.

final exam results

Here is the distribution of scores for the entire course. The average score for the entire course was 696/1000 = 69.6% (shown as the vertical line); the high score was 931/1000 = 93.1%; 809 people completed the course. Last updated Saturday, May 14, 2011 08:48:57.

overall results