Sample Exam Problems

Physics 121, Fall 2010

Prof. E. F. Redish

Exams
Here are sample problems from exams from previous years and this year's mid-semester exams. (To be posted at appropriate times.)

• Sample Exams for Midterm Exam I
• Fall 2009 Exam I
• Fall 2009 Makeup Exam I
  (Solution available on Blackboard)

• Fall 2008 Exam I
• Fall 2008 Makeup Exam I
  (Solution available on Blackboard)

Sample Exams for Midterm Exam II

• Fall 2007 Exam II (but not problem 3)
• Fall 2009 Makeup Exam II
  (Solution available on Blackboard)

• Sample Problems for Midterm Exam II
  • The perfect bouncer
  • The dipped track
  • Energy-Skate Park 2
  • A superelastic collision


• Sample Problems for Final Exam
• Weighing a non-uniform suitcase
• Child on a trampoline
• Vector products
• In the balance
• Climbing out of the dorm
• Go with the flow
• The gravity of the situation
• Do you have an arterial motive?
• Pushing iron
• Dormitory under pressure

• Current Semester Midterms
  • Fall 2010 Exam I
  • Fall 2010 Makeup Exam I
    (Solution available on Blackboard)
  • Fall 2010 Exam II
  • Fall 2010 Makeup Exam II
    (Solution available on Blackboard)

RETURNS

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This page prepared by

Edward F. Redish
Department of Physics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: (301) 405-6120
Email: redish@physics.umd.edu

Last revision 12. December, 2010.