Exams

Midterm 1:  Friday, April 22 10:30-11:20 am

• Coverage Info:   Chapters 1-6.  Bring one page of notes and a calculator.
• The exam will consist of 2-3 problems similar to HW and examples in the book, plus some terms for which you will be asked definitions and examples of their use.
• Material covered on the midterm will have been seen twice in the combination of lecture, homework and textbook.  Things that are only in lecture or only in the book will not be on the test (although they may be useful and interesting for things other than midterms ....)
• The exam will only cover the part of chapter 6 that was covered in lecture by April 15 (i.e., concept of density of states, counting states for a particle in a box, and single particle partition function)
  
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Midterm 2:  Friday, May 20 10:30-11:20 am

• Coverage Info:  Chapters 1-10, with emphasis on material since last midterm.   Bring one page of notes and a calculator.
• Material covered on the midterm will have been seen twice in the combination of lecture, homework and textbook.  Things that are only in lecture or only in the book will not be on the test (although they may be useful and interesting for things other than midterms ....)
• Questions will be explicitly based on chapters 6b through 10, though the concepts of chapters 1-6a are clearly relevant for solving them.
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Final Exam:  Monday, June 6  8:30 - 10:20 AM

• Coverage Info:  Final is cumulative:  Chapters 1-13 plus cryogenics.
• At least two contexts on the final exam will be taken from the material since the last midterm (i.e. bose condensation, degenerate fermi gases, semiconductors, cryogenics), though the emphasis will be on applying the concepts of the first 10 chapters.
• The final exam will be roughly 50% longer than the midterms, with twice as much time to complete it.
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