When and Where: Monday, Oct 1, 2012. 50 minutes long. 6:30 pm Room 200 Armes .

Format:
About 35 multiple choice and true or false questions.
About 5-10 of these questions will use arithmetic.
About about 5 of these questions will be slide images.

What to bring:
Pencils. Non-programmable calculators. No Textbooks. Note: cell phones, pagers, PDAs, MP3 units or electronic translators are explicitly listed as unauthorized materials, and must not be present during tests or examinations. Leave them at home or you will be asked to put them at the front of the classroom.

Math Questions:
If constants are needed they will be given. Exact characteristics (radii, distances, masses) will be given if needed. However approximate scales of classes of objects should be known. Also, for example, one should know the conversion between metres and kilometres and the definitions of giga- and mega, as well as the the conversion between parsec and light-years. Equations will be given except for the relation between distance and arcseconds, diameter and angular size, Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravity, Kepler's Laws (e.g. third), and the equation for measuring mass using an orbiting satellite (e.g. moon or planet) .

Range of Questions:
Although there is overlap with the lab material, questions will be selected from lecture material and from specific readings that have been requested by the instructor (e.g. specified sections, diagrams, tables). For example, the lectures did not emphasize history so dates and scientists' names will not be required. See "Topics" below.

Image Slide Questions:
Slides questions of astronomy images will not ask for the specific name of the object but will test for astronomy information, e.g. the class of objects, and concepts, e.g. how the image is relevant to our studies of, say, gravity or what processes produce the kind of emission shown in the image.

Answer Forms and Question Sheets:
Answer Forms (i.e. Bubble Sheets) must be filled out according to the instructions on the sheet. ONLY USE PENCIL. These will be read by a machine so try to be tidy to ensure that you get the correct mark. Fill these in at least five minutes before the end of the test time period. You must write down your name, student number, your faculty, the class number (Phys 1810) and section, and the instructor's name.
Question sheets will be returned to the instructor at the end of the test. They will be retained for 1 week after the marks are posted so that you may discuss them individually with the instructor. Therefore do your work on the question sheets and put your name on them. Leave at least 5 minutes for transferring your answers to the bubble sheet before the end of the test. Marks will be posted, about 5 days after the test, outside the Dr. English's door (Allen Building 514).

Topics on this test:
The topics will include powers of ten, angular measurements, distances, parallax, motion, gravity, tides, Kepler's Laws, and General Relativity. That is, all material covered in class up to radiation. With respect to the textbook, the test includes material from parts of Chapters 1, and 2 plus parts of other chapters that were noted in the class "road maps". See the topic outline online at http://www.physics.umanitoba.ca/~english/2012fallphys1810/phys1810sched.html for some sections that are relevant.
Links to some supplemental material relevant to the test are posted at http://www.physics.umanitoba.ca/~english/2012fallphys1810/index.html#sup.

Tips for Review and Practise:

• A review is provided at the end of each chapter under the sections called Summary, Review and Discussion, and Conceptual Self-Test. Look up the Key Terms in the Glossary G-1. Also redoing the Preview part of the PQRST study method provides a good review.
  
  
• While reading your notes from class, look up the topic that you are reading about using the text's subject index for the appropriate pages. Read the pages associated with the relevant chapter.
  
  
• Review all the questions posed in class and all the exercises done in class, especially those done with your fellow students during class.
  
  
• Bring specific questions to the instructor during tutorial hour or make an appointment via email. Tutorial hours will be Monday Sept 24 at 3:30 pm and Friday Sept 28 at noon. The room is Allen 514 (a note will be on the door if we move to a larger room).
  
  
• It is good practice to re-do all the mathematical examples done in class. Make up some of your own questions by re-arranging the equations.
  
  
• To increase your skill for multiple choice questions, do the conceptual self-test multiple choice questions for those topics covered in class. Also do those multiple choice questions which are relevant to the lecture material at http://www.aw-bc.com/chaisson. Your access code is in the front of the textbook.
  
  

Tips for the test: During the test, it is recommended that the whole test is read first in order to rank the questions as "easy", "challenging", and "difficult". It is best to do the easiest questions first and the difficult questions last so that as many questions as possible are answered before the time runs out.

After reading the question, without looking at the multiple choice answers, state to yourself what you think the answer is. Then look for it amongst the multiple choices.