The final exam is Wednesday, April 30, 8-10 pm in room N100, Eli Broad College of Business.
Problem #7 from homework 4 is postponed till next week, because we haven't covered that material yet. It will be reassigned as part of homework 5.
The grades on the midterm exam are:
(a) The essay questions grade (??/61)
(b) The multiple choice questions grade ??/25
One multiple choice question (about when the universe became
transparent) was dropped because of a typo removing the correct
answer. Another (about the light with least energy) was counted
only as extra credit, again because of the typo.
Furthermore, the mulitple choice score on the exam may be 1 or 2
higher than you received via email from the scoring office because
I manually corrected some scores to account for other typo problems.
(c) The overall exam percentage. Note each multiple choice is 3 points,
so 75 points for multiple choice questions and 61 points for essay
questions. The total points is thus divided by 1.36 to get the
percentage.
(d) Your course percentage up till now, including the exam, quiz, homeworks,
and in class activities. The exam accounted for 75% of the grade, the
rest for 25%. The non-exam part should pull your grade up, but
unfortunately for many it lowered the grade.
(e) On some exams there is the overall grade corresponding to the course
percentage. If not given you can find the correspondence on the
course information page:
www.pa.msu.edu/courses/isp205/sec-3/isp205.info.html
We have briefly covered a lot of topics in this first unit. As a guide for studying for the exam -- concentrate on those topics from the outline that we discussed in class and those objectives that are listed at the end of the cosmos sylabus. Study those parts of the outline and then read the sections of the text that are relevant to those topics. Then discuss the material with a friend (even if they are not taking the class).
Anyone who will be missing class when homework is due can turn it in anytime before class. Either to my office 3266 (push it under door if I am not in) or to the astronomy secretaries office room 3261. It must be turned in before class to get credit for it.
A discussion of converting the units of the Hubble constant can be found on the web at www.pa.msu.edu/courses/isp205/sec-3/units.html.
Where the syllabus lists a chapter read the entire chapter, where it ONLY lists sections just read those sections. Where both a chapter and sections in it are listed read the entire chapter, but note the specfic sections for the individual pieces of the material.
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