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ScubaSteveFather
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First Test Grade inCollege

Youwake up at the Colorado School of Mines, tired as hell, because you were upuntil 3 am studying your ass off for that physics test. The day runs bysmoothly, you walk to class and sit there thinking of the upcoming test; youfeel ready and think you understand the concepts of electricity andelectromagnetism. Getting out of class in the brisk morning sun, you look atthe mountains and sigh. Ah is it beautiful here in Golden in Colorado near themountains. Your school day finishes smoothly and you eat dinner at subwaybefore your dreaded test.

Walkingto Coolbaugh hall where you will take the test you see a squirrel fuckinganother squirrel. Now this happens often but you find it intriguing. They areslowly moving with each other and sometimes separate and seem to fight. It is astrange sight and seems like a weird way to mate. You soon snap out of it andmake your way to the physics exam all the while thinking of that idiot squirreland his sexual endeavors.

Takingyour physics exam you just feel like shit. Although it is only 17 multiplechoice questions with 2 free response questions and you have 1 hour and 45minutes to complete it, after the exam you still feel as if you did terrible.On your way home you prop yourself up and debate in your mind some problems, asyou slowly feel better about the exam thinking you may have pulled off an 85%.Going to bed that night you are worried but thinking about the curioussquirrels and their life as they roam the environment scavenging for food andoften living day-to-day eases your mind and allows you to fall asleep.

Thenext morning you get up and first thing check the dreaded lon-capa for yourphysics grade. It is not up yet and so you go to class worried and biting atyour nails. In physics studio you get your free response grade back and you arelike oh shit. You got a 13/20. Telling yourself that your multiple-choice gradewas better you move on and hope for the best. Finally getting home that nightyou check lon-capa once again and see you failed. A 59% on the exam, you arepissed, studying so hard for a test and yet failing, it just doesn’t happen.Finally the next day in lecture you find out the average was 59%.

Now this is what happened for the Physics Exam at CSM. The averagewas 59% an F. It wasn’t curved and trust me the test was impossibly hard. Idkrandom story I decided to write bash it as much as you like I wrote it in 15minutes. Squirrel part idk y I put that in I thought it’d be funny J

Have a great day NS!

Sparknotes: Physics test at Colorado School of Mines averagewas 59% (F) which fucking sucks and the test was super hard + not curved.

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Mar 8 2012 2:27PM
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DrZoidberg
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Haha it's a super nice day out, 70 degrees on the east coast, and I'm studying for a physics test all day instead. Everybody else is gonna skate or play soccer or something...
Mar 8 2012 2:32PM
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[hamnuts]
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that's why I don't take physics
Mar 8 2012 2:34PM
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nacho.steez
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70 degrees out, really sunny, and im stuck inside with food poisoning
Mar 8 2012 2:34PM
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cobra_commander
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post the test.
Mar 8 2012 2:35PM
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.AR6rider.
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59% isn't too bad. The average on my molecular genetics final last semester was 43% or something. I got an A with a 65%.
Mar 8 2012 2:36PM
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Black.Bird
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I'm crying right now. You just reminded me that I just got a 30% on my physics exam.. Electric fields, flux, Gauss's law, capacitors and modern physics. It was incredibly hard. I can't stand physics and this is my second and last physics course thankfully! if I pass..
Mar 8 2012 2:41PM
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JuliusJ
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CSM=Most fucking boring school in the States. Do you even have women who go there? On the plus side, you're guaranteed a high paying job, so you can marry some gold digger or at least buy a high class hooker
Mar 8 2012 2:41PM
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howlongcanausern
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#firstworldproblems
Mar 8 2012 2:42PM
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Mike-O
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How can you desrcibe a multiple choice test as impossibly hard, though?
Mar 8 2012 2:46PM
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Smilemon
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You got your Free-Response back before your multiple choice? That defies the laws of physics.

Seriously though... I just got a 61 on my first O-Chem test of the semester and the class average was 69... I feel like an idiot. Being a science major sucks coxndix.
Mar 8 2012 2:49PM
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cobra_commander
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I have had some brutal multiple choice tests.

Complex problems, involving several pages of algebra and calculus, easy to overlook a simple mistake when pressed for time. No partial credit.
Mar 8 2012 2:50PM
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[hamnuts]
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Also I've written some multiple choice tests where there 2-3 correct answers and you have to choose the "most" correct/applicable. And there's no part marks.
Mar 8 2012 2:52PM
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DIX~
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Way harder imo, spend 15 minutes fucking with a question and 1 mistake will give you shit fuck all, normally you'd get at least half marks. 48 average on my calc final last year also
Mar 8 2012 2:57PM
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Download-My-Apps
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59% is an F? Thats first year for ya, they try and weed out the weak. Its pretty common in the more competitive classes in first year to have 45% average on midterms.
Mar 8 2012 3:00PM
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AlwaysDisagrees
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I feel like the only time you stay up late at Mines is when you're studying.
Mar 8 2012 3:11PM
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ScubaSteveFather
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Just to give you an example here are the first 3 problems of the test and one of the free response I have to get them off the course site and reformat them etc so I don't feel like doing the whole test

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Two charged conducting spheres are connected by a metallic wire attached to each sphere. Sphere A is larger than sphere B. The magnitude of the electric potential at the surface of sphere A

a. could be greater or less than the electric potential at the surface of sphere B, depending on the exact radii of the spheres.

b. is less than the electric potential at the surface of sphere B.

c. is the same as the electric potential at the surface of sphere B.

d. is greater than the electric potential at the surface of sphere B.

e. could be greater or less than the electric potential at the surface of sphere B, depending on the charged stored on each sphere.

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Consider a system two concentric shells and a point charge in the center. The point has charge −q, the inner shell has a net charge of 0, and the outer shell has a net charge of +Q. The shells are conductive. Note: Some of the following are made much simpler by drawing a Gaussian surface in a region where you know something about the E-field, so that you can infer something about the charge enclosed.

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What is the total charge on the outer surface of the inner shell?


a. +q 


b. −q


c. Q+q


d. 0 


e. None of the above

What is the total charge on the inner surface of the outer shell?


a. +q


b. Q−q 


c. Q+q 


d. 0


e. None of the above 



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For the first three parts of this problem you must start with fundamental principles or appropriate expressions on the equation sheet. In addition, to recieve full credit you must also explain all reasoning. A very long piece of coaxial cable, whose cross-section is shown, has an inner radius of a and an outer radius of b.


1. Assuming the inner conductor has a non-zero linear charge density λ, and the space between the two conductors is filled with air find the electric field between the inner and outer conductors as a function of r.

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2. Consider the same geometry as the first part. However, for this part assume the insulating material is such that the electric field between the two conductors can be written as E = Aλr, where the dimensions of the constant A are force/charge2. What is the potential difference between the conductors?

3. Using the same potential difference found in part (2), find the capacitance per unit length of this coaxial cable. 4. If the center conductor contains a positive charge, which conductor (inner or outer) is at the larger electric potential?

5. If the charge stored by the cable dropped to zero, describe how the capacitance of a given length of the cable would change. EndFragment

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Mar 8 2012 3:19PM
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DrZoidberg
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Hahahaha my test is on the shame shit tomorrow. Although since my professor does work on super capacitors and that kinda stuff we also are gonna have a capacitance question, which will probably involve concentric spheres or cylinders aka coax cables.

But my test is gonna be all fill in/integrations and that. I'll probably get the sphere in a shell problem, but they ask to calculate the electric field in all the different regions using gauss' law and the potential difference between the sphere and shell. I'm thinking I'll get a parallel plate capacitor problem and some other shaped capacitor problem too. Then we're gonna get the charged particle traveling through a field and being deflected by the field that somehow involves conservation of energy.

Mar 8 2012 5:30PM
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Black.Bird
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These are the two questions I completely bombed on my exam. Good luck to you sir^ hahahaa.
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Mar 8 2012 5:57PM
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tBatt
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F=BIL. Test = Passed.
Mar 8 2012 9:31PM
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VT_FLO
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Wow 2 things, 1. you learn from the book in those classes, not the professor. the only way to do well is to do all the workbook problems and know how to do them, and 2 your professor SUCKS for not telling you this
Mar 8 2012 9:35PM
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shocker611
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Im not trying to be a dick and it is stupid that they aren't curving your test, but that really is an average physics 2 test (for scientists/engineers) that you would find at any major university. Now with that being said, having that low of an average uncurved is ridiculous, but that really is just testing the basics
Mar 8 2012 10:30PM
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45.
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This. Those are relatively easy questions considering the topic of the material. Granted - that's only a fraction of your test, but judging from that it doesn't seem outrageous.

On a side note - I got a 64% on my first Electricity and Magnetism test, class average was a 60% with no curve. I was pretty furious. That class blows my mind, I find it very hard to conceptualize.
Mar 8 2012 10:47PM
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HolySchimmel
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we had an average of 3.7 on our first physics test (on a scale of 1-5). I got a 1,7, no big deal. But I can see how these tests suck balls. Our tests are always 60% normal question and 40% multiple choice. In the multiple choice part, you at least have about 25% right, even if you have no clue what you are doing, so I think the normal stuff is way harder.
Mar 9 2012 2:24AM
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Mike-O
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Do you often, generally speaking, retake tests/courses with low grades in college, as in does your GPA really count for a lot any more when in an university or is it all the same, as long as you pass? Do you know if there are there some advanced courses etc. that you need prerequisities with high grades to get into?
Mar 9 2012 3:34AM
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Radio
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uh im in highschool physics and i got a quiz on this exact stuff on monday.
Mar 9 2012 3:41AM
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CassiusClay
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That's just how tests go in college. I remember my first financial engineering course (essentially an applied math/finance course), based on coming up with new financial formulas that could solve a given problem. We were allowed to use any class notes as well as our computers giving us access to any papers, etc. you could find. I dropped a 66%, class average was a 58%. It was curved, but damn, those tests were brutal. Later on I realized half of the important research were from papers our professor had published, what a cocky dick.
Mar 9 2012 4:37AM
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THEDICKBUTCHER
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at least you got a 59%!! impressive. I got a 53% on my statistics test today which i studied for until 3am last night and from 8 am to 5 pm today. fml. No curve.
Mar 9 2012 5:48AM
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russ.bar
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Almost all of your major's required curriculum is gonna have pre req's and all of em are gonna require a c- or better in the completed class. GPA is very important, retaking a course means paying for that course again and also taking up another semester. You can retake courses though to replace your grade if youve got the money and time. And finally test retaking doesnt happen.
From my experience at the u of u anyways.
Mar 9 2012 10:35AM
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Mike-O
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No retake tests there, huh? If that happens, do you have to complete the whole course all over again, assignments and all?
Mar 9 2012 10:40AM
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ScubaSteveFather
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At Csm even if you retake a course it doesn't replace the grade you got on the first time you took it

Mar 9 2012 10:40AM
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Loco-Deer-Slayer
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Hey...I also have a physics test today...also on electro and magnetic fields. Hope I see some squirrels fucking today.

Your test is also WAY EASIER than most I have seen. Multiple choice come on what is this shit, and honestly a 59% is a pretty high average on a physic exam.
Mar 9 2012 11:14AM
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mathmansam
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Typically.  If you receive below a C- in a course that counts towards your major, you have to retake the entire course, not just tests.  As was previously said, this takes up more money/time and completely blows.  At CU in Boulder they used to just replace the grade you got i.e. D->B after retake.  However, they got rid of that "grade replacement" policy and now they factor both of your grades into your GPA.
Mar 9 2012 11:24AM
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DrZoidberg
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Does this not involve calculus or integrals and such? I just studied a shit ton yesterday. Integrals aren't hard, just determining what to integrate was a bit confusing but now I get it.
Mar 9 2012 11:28AM
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icon1234
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lol @ full multiple choice physics exams? Ours all our problems, and we have like maybe 5 conceptional short answer questions.
Mar 9 2012 11:33AM
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