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Java 2 mid-term in a week or two.

And I haven't been feeling school this quarter, so not sure how I'll do.

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I have the dream where I sleep through an exam sometimes.

I have been tearing ass through all of them so far. All I have left is English 232 and Comm/Info 150.

Those AP tests are probably harder than anything you will take in your first year of college. I know they were for me. The English one was easy, but history and bio are a pain.

I have a Post-1865 US History Exam Thursday. Took my Abnormal Psychology final and aced it, turned in my final Creative Writing project and got an A, and as far as I know I am only nearly flunking Biology.

I had a take home final in Theoretical Electricity and Magnetism. I spent about 25 hours over 4 days doing 4 problems. The hardest problem described an infinite slab (a good conductor) of thickness 2d in a changing external magnetic field. You had to find magnitude of the magnetic field in the center. It's a second order PDE (the diffusion equation), but I couldn't figure out the correct particular solution, mainly because I couldn't easily derive the boundary condition at t=0. I used a bogus particular solution and solved, which was wrong, but I don't think any of the grad students in my class got it so whatever. (20 undergrads/10 grads)
A similar form of this problem describes the skin effect in a conducting sheet/plate.

The other two hard ones were electromagnetic waves and the corresponding phase and group velocities for TM and TE waves, and ratios between them. The first problem dealt with them in a dielectric waveguide, and the third dealt with an EM wave propagating on the surface of a vacuum and a dielectric. The first one was a 5 page derivation (front and back, but I write sort of big). The second was super tricky because it's apparently the only case where the products of group and phase velocities aren't equal to c^2 for an EM wave. (You can probably trick 90% of physics teachers/professors with that one)

Tomorrow I have an oral test in the morning and a final in the afternoon, both on particle physics, which will be (compared to the other test) super easy.

And then I'm officially done with all my physics classics for the bachelor's degree This summer I gotta retake a math class on top of an extra math class for my math minor.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:I don't take 'em, I give 'em.

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BER, wtf? Are you hungering for a beating on this thread? You should know I'm in a VERY PRECARIOUS STATE OF MIND RIGHT NOW.

Linus Van Pelt wrote:In mine, I oversleep and almost miss an exam, but I make it, and it's an exam for a class that I signed up for and forgot that I signed up for and never attended and have no knowledge about or aptitude for or reason to take, like an advanced math/science course. Scary dreams.

I have these exact same dreams. For me it is always an English class. For some reason these dreams absolutely horrify me. After I awake, I remain paranoid that somehow I have enrolled in school again and have completely forgotten what classes I registered for. I have not been in school for quite some time now. Still, absolutely horrifying.

Jon

juice wrote:It's a second order PDE (the diffusion equation), but I couldn't figure out the correct particular solution, mainly because I couldn't easily derive the boundary condition at t=0.

In what way is the magnetic field oscillating? I assume the slab is infinite in the x-y plane, with z boundaries of +d and -d. Sorry to pry, I am just curious about the setup of the problem. I assume what your professor was trying to get at was the skin depth problem, minus the e-field component of the em wave.

Jon

Ugh...my long delayed return to academia. It's just a city college English class, and I did pretty well in it (I'd better have, or I'm a complete dumbshit), but there was some scrambling to finish a writing portfolio, rewite an essay I'd initially gotten a C on (and I still have yot to get the grade on that revision) and put together a writer's log.

Still...kinda missed that sort of stress. However, my last few turn ins were a bit on the sloppy side and we get our final grades this Sunday.

Again, any lower than a high B (which is still disappointing) then I flat out suck.

I've got one more Calculus midterm before the Calculus final, which is probably popping up within a week or so. I also have an Ecosystems of California final popping up on the horizon, a final Accounting project due next week and final midterm (no finals, just three tests), and my Creative Writing portfolio due.

Please God, I know I'm a perpetually-lapsed Catholic, but please let me pass all my classes this semester.

Regards,
Chris

mfpole wrote:I have two AP tests coming up but those are nothing compared to what you guys have. Christ, what even is some of this stuff?

I can't answer for anyone else, but:
Secured Transactions deals with the rules surrounding loans that are secured by collateral. The bulk of the exam deals with figuring out which creditors get what stuff when someone declares bankruptcy.
Professional Responsibility deals with the rules governing what lawyers can and can't and have to and don't have to do. Did you know that lawyers aren't allowed to lie (except in negotiation, and even then not always)? Weird but true!
Criminal Procedure I deals mostly with what the police are and aren't allowed to do in searching, seizing, and interrogating, and with what happens when they screw up.
Tribal Economic Development is just like it sounds. About half of the class is about casinos.

AP Biology was probably the hardest class I've ever taken, counting college and law school. Although, weirdly, I didn't find the AP exam that tough. I did find the class exam very tough. 4 on the exam, D in the course. Can't explain it.

What AP exams have you got coming up?