Exams
Physics 328: Statistical Physics
Spring Quarter 2006
Midterm 1: Friday, April 21 10:30-11:20 am
- Coverage Info: Chapters 1-5.
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 ....)
- Solutions
- Statistics
Midterm 2: Monday, May 15 10:30-11:20 am
- Coverage Info: Chapters 1-9, 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 6
through 9, though the concepts of chapters 1-5 are clearly relevant
for solving
them.
- Solutions
- Statistics
Final Exam: Monday, June 5 8:30 - 10:20 AM
- Coverage Info: Final is cumulative:
Chapters
1-13 plus special topics.
- 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, special topics), 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.
- Solutions
- Statistics
Old Exams (Note: slightly different coverage due to different
dates)
Midterm 1 -04
Midterm 2 -04
Final Exam -04
Midterm 1 -05
Midterm 2 -05
Final Exam -05