<p>Was I the only one who though that was really bad? Anyways, that's what I get when I prioritize studying for IB 160 over physics... (though IB 160 is much more important for graduate school than physics 8a)</p>
<p>I didn’t get the third problem at all. This midterm was definitely harder than the first one but I can’t tell if it’s because I didn’t study enough or if it was genuinely harder. :[ I hope there’s a curve. I doubt it though.</p>
<p>heinemann’s was pretty bad too… anyone in that class?</p>
<p>there was a problem about a cylinder rolling down an incline with static friction and we had to find the min friction for it to roll and not skid or something… i had no idea what to do</p>
<p>i’m in heinemann’s class. compared to the first midterm, this one wasn’t that bad i think. But yeah, that cylinder problem totally threw me off. i did all this work and ended up getting that the coefficient had to be greater than or equal to 1 which is obviously completely wrong…</p>
<p>the third one was the buoyancy one right? I had to keep redoing it until I finally got it. I was ****ing lucky with the volume submerged part, because I copied down the iceberg example from the book that used the same equation…</p>
<p>It was a pretty straightforward test. No trick questions, everything he went over in lectures, so i doubt he’ll curve it any. Just study harder for the final and you guys should be fine. I really enjoy Deweese’s teaching method, I’m glad i got him for 8b also.</p>
<p>The buoyancy one was pretty bad too but I’m talking about the incline one. I didn’t get that at all. I wish I had looked over the book before the test. >.<
It probably didn’t help that I started panicking during the middle and started flipping pages over and over.</p>
<p>Oh, I guess the problem that I was talking about was similar to the one on Heinemann’s test.</p>
<p>Dude, the whole first one, I forgot about gravity…
Hopefully partial credit will save my ass.</p>
<p>The buoyancy one in the end was okay, probably got full credit on that one</p>
<p>The third one I think I did something wrong when I was calculating friction, also I was stupid and said the KErot at the end was zero…</p>
<p>For the fourth one I didn’t allocate for the high difference, and as a result I said the pressure was the same in both areas, (not sure if it actually is).</p>
<p>My test was riddled with math errors I would have never got to if they hadn’t given us (in 145 Dwinelle) that extra ten minutes…</p>
<p>Thank god for partial credit. I just put some stupid equations to see if I would get at least one point.</p>
<p>I didn’t understand how to use the tension force in the buoyancy one so I screwed up on that. I didn’t even know how to get started on the third one. I was stuck on B which was the cause of my panic. And the fourth one was weird. I know he went over it in class but I never really pay attention. :[</p>
<p>How did you get ten extra minutes?! That’s lucky. Not that it would have helped me…</p>
<p>In general, physics has really lenient graders (not like chem 1a/3a/etc.), so don’t feel too bad about it just yet.</p>
<p>It just occurred to me that labs and masteringphysics are worth 10% each (i.e. they are a free 19%), so those two should balance out test scores slightly, right?</p>
<p>The grade divisions are determined based off the overall grade, not extrapolated over exam grades, right…?</p>
<p>Grade divisions are on overall grade. ~25% get an A of some sort.</p>
<p>Solutions are up :/</p>
<p>I guess the exam was fair… but I was really time crunched and stressed during the entire thing. The first exam seemed really chill in comparison.</p>
<p>Is it just me or are his test nowadays harder than in the past. The seesaw question on the practice midterm was pretty easy, but than I saw on the midterm the seesaw AND pump and I was damn. So does he really not curve? I don’t expect a fatty o-chem curve…more like a small curve. His average for the first one was a 77 and I expect this one to be lower so I’m just wondering how traditionally 65% get As.</p>
<p>The physics department sets the curve for ALL classes. The GSIs adds up everyone’s grade (mts, finals, hw/lab,etc.) and then looks at the distribution. They give approximately 25% A’s of some sort (A & A-), if you are in the top 25, then you get some form of A. You can’t really predict how well you do in the class based on each exam, but if you’re scoring in top 20% on every exam and not failing hw/lab, then you’re on track to get an A. If everyone’s getting 90%+ on exams, I don’t think they’d give everyone A’s.</p>
<p>DeWeese says the class isn’t curved though</p>