Final:
8-10am, Tuesday, Dec. 6, in 66 Roessler. 

Bring a Law Blue Book. If you have enough space left in your law
bluebook from the midterm, you can reuse that. Make it clear where your
solutions for the final start.

The exam is closed book. You can have two 3"x5" note cards and a
calculator. You may not use your fancy calculator to store information
relevant to the exam. If any physical constants are needed, I will supply them.

Special office hours: 4-6pm, Monday, 5 Dec., 158 Roessler
(The Monday problem solving session will not be held next week.)

Please check your grades on SmartSite. If there are errors, they should
be corrected ASAP. It will not be practical to make corrections after
Friday, Dec. 2. Grades go to the Registrar soon after the final. Once
that happens, it is _extremely_ difficult to make changes, and it is
simply against University regulations to make any changes based on a
re-evaluation of the quality of the work. I will not consider any
corrections after Friday that you could have brought to my attention
before then.

On the final, there will be problem solving and some questions asking
you to explain the physics at work in some situation, e.g. "Why" or
"Explain your answer" questions. Many of the conceptual questions in the
back of the chapters are good.

Recall that you _will_ lose points for incorrect units and for solutions
or writing that are messy or hard to follow. Presentation counts!

The final will be mostly about thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.
There will probably be one relatively short problem on fluids. There
will not be any problems specifically devoted to waves and the other
material covered on the midterm. However, it is possible that some basic
knowledge of that material will be needed in an incidental way in a
problem on stat mech, thermo, or fluids.

The relevant reading is all of that for lectures 9, and 11-20. 

The chapter summaries are one place to look for an outline of the
material we have covered. Here is my list of the main topics.

Zeroth law and the idea of temperature
Temperature as defined by the ideal gas
Kinetic theory of pressure and temperature for an ideal gas
First law and heat, work, and internal energy
Thermodynamic results related to the first law for the four basic
	processes and the free expansion
Second law and entropy
	heat engines, efficiency, and the Carnot engine
	thermodynamic view of entropy
	statistical mechanical view of entropy
	entropy and equilibrium

There are also side topics that are not in the main theoretical 
development but still important in a practical way:

Specific heats and heat capacity
Latent heat
Thermal expansion
Heat transfer:
	conduction
	convection
	radiation

Main topics in fluids:

Density and pressure
Hydrostatic equilibrium
Archimedes' principle
Equation of continuity
Bernoulli's law

This looks like a long list, but there are only a few basic ideas and
fundamental laws or results here. Thus you should try to identify those
input ideas and the important output equations from which everything
else can be derived. The idea is not to know a lot of little things, but
rather to know a few important things very well so that you can get
everything else from those. That is the "way" of physics.