Tuesday-Thursday, 12:40-3:30
Room 1410 BioMedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.
Course Grades
List of
grades, by PID number.
Histogram
of final exam results.
Instructor: Jack Baldwin, Room 3270 BPS
Phone 355-9200, ext. 2411 (baldwin@pa.msu.edu)
Teaching Assistant: Deborah Frank, Room 3265 BPS
Phone 355-9200, ext. 2446
Office hrs: 10-12 Tuesday
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Final Exam
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Thursday, June 26, 2:30-3:30PM
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BPS 1410 (the regular classroom)
o 40 Questions
§ Roughly 10
covering material presented on June 24.
§ Roughly 25 based
on questions you have already seen on quizzes.
§ But about half
of those will be variations of the question that was on the quiz.
Roughly 5 new, general questions about whole course.
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Review session before the final
§ Will cover
viewgraphs that will be available in advance on web.
§ Starts at 12:40
in regular classroom (BPS 1410)
§ Will go for
about one hour.
§ Then I will be
in the classroom until the start of the final, available to answer questions.
· Review Slides
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These don’t necessarily cover everything that will be on the
final, but do offer an outline of the course. pdf html
· Syllabus
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726 Sample Quiz Questions
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HTML version (1.5Mbyte)
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pdf version (2 kbyte)
· Class lecture
notes (in acrobat pdf format, to view these, download acrobat reader):
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May13,15
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May 20
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May 27 (telescopes; intro to solar system; the
Earth; tides)
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May 29 (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars)
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June 3 (Giant planets, moons, rings)
pdf html
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June 5 (Asteroids & comets)
pdf html
§ June 10 (Star formation
& evolution) pdf html
· pdf of
last few slides (try this if you have trouble printing the last few slides)
§ Extra
reading assignment (change to syllabus)
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June 12 (Stellar evolution; the Milky Way) pdf html
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June 17 (General relativity, Black holes, Quasars) pdf html
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June 19+24 (large file: 79 slides). Cosmology. pdf html
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Histograms of quiz results
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Quiz 1
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Quiz 2
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Quiz 3
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Quiz 4
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Quiz 5
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Updated! Grading curves, after 5 quizzes and 9
extra credit questions.
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Curve for sum of best 4 quizzes + 9
extra credit questions.
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Individual scores, sorted by PID.
