8.012  Physics I: 8.012

Solutions for the final exam are now online, please click on the "Exams" link in the left menubar of the 8.012 webpage.

Also, final grades have been posted and will be made available online on the MIT WebSIS site (http://student.mit.edu) shortly.

Incidentally, if you would like to review your own exam, the policy of the Physics department stipulates that you must review it in the Education Office (4-315) with the supervision of one of the 8.012 instructors.

Have a wonderful break!

Grades for the 8.012 final exam have now been posted; please click on the "Gradebook" link on the left menu list.

The mean for the final was 58.3 and standard deviation was 16.6.  This was (as you probably realized!) a challenging exam, about midway in difficulty between the first and second midterms.   If you'd like to pick up your graded version of the exam they will be available in the Physics Education department after tomorrow.

We will be tabulating final letter grades for the semester tomorrow, but if you want to assess whether or not you are above passing, the F/D boundary will likely be 45 and the D/C- boundary 50.  If you are taking the class pass/no record, you have passed 8.012 if you final score is at least 50.  For those near the border, we have not added in extra credit from problem set 10 yet, so if you scored above 48 and handed problem set 10 in, you may still be above the threshhold.

On behalf of the 8.012 staff, I would like to congratulate *all* of you for taking this challenging course.  You should be as proud of yourselves as we are of you to have "survived" one of the hardest classes MIT offers their undergraduates.  Good luck with the rest of your finals and in Spring semester!

There will be a review session for the final exam this Friday, December 14th from 1:30pm-4pm in room 54-100.  The review will be led by Prof. Zwierlein.  Please don't forget to look at the practice exams that are available in the Exams section.

Practice exams for the 8.012 final are now online; click on the "Exams" section to the right.  These exams include solutions. They will not be collected or graded.  The equation sheet that will be provided in the final is also included here.

Also, a reminder that the final exam will be administered in one week, on Monday, December 17, 2007, from 9am-12pm in the duPont Gymnasium (Building W31).

An optional problem set of K&K problems has been posted online.  This problem set will not be collected.  Please feel free to make use of the solutions, which will be posted shortly. Problem Set 9 will be posted on Thursday, Nov. 29th.

A reminder that 8.012 Projects are due on Wednesday Nov. 28th in recitation sections.