MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Physics: 8.02
8.02 Final Exam Spring 2022 Information
The 8.02 Final Exam is scheduled for Friday Morning May 13 from 9 am - 12 noon
at the Johnson Athletic Center Track 2nd floor.
If you have two finals scheduled at that time, the registrar will send you an email
indicating where and when to take conflict final exam.
If any emergencies arise, please contact Student Support Services and they will
contact us.
Final Exam Preparation: The final exam will cover everything we have discussed this
semester. The emphasis will be on the new topics discussed since Exam 2. Exam
problems will involve the application of several concepts as in the problem set problems.
To study for this exam, we suggest you try the final exam practice problems and concept
questions (located on the 8.02 MITx website) first without looking at solutions in order to
self-assess your skills in:
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getting started,
designing problem solving strategies,
carrying out those strategies using problem solving methodologies,
reviewing your work (units, algebra, etc.).
To help facilitate your understanding we suggest that you also review as needed:
1. relevant lightboard videos;
2. class material: in-class problems, worked examples, and concept questions;
3. Friday Problem Solving sessions;
4. problem sets;
5. 8.02 Course Notes: in particular Problem Solving Strategies and Worked
Examples.
There will be a set of review problems that we will work on during the W15D1 class.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Physics: 8.02
New Topics introduced after Exam 2:
1. Induced Electric field using Faraday’s Law
2. Mutual and Self Induction
3. Energy Stored in Magnetic Fields
4. RC and RL Circuits
5. Undriven RLC Circuits
6. Driven RLC with an emphasis on resonance
7. Maxwell-Ampere Law and Displacement Current,
8. Maxwell’s Equations
9. Electromagnetic Plane Waves, Plane Waves and Standing Waves,
10. Poynting Vector, Energy Flow, and Radiation Pressure
11. Stefan-Boltzmann Law; Greenhouse effect
Topics on Exam 1
1. Coulomb’s Law and Electric Fields for Point Charges and Continuous
Distributions of Charge
2. Gauss’s Law
3. Applications of Newton’s Second Law for Electrostatics
4. Electric Potential Difference for Point Charges and Continuous Distributions of
Charge
5. Potential Energy stored in Charge Configurations
6. Deriving Electric Fields from Electric Potential Difference
7. Capacitance
8. Stored Energy in Electric Fields
9. Current, Resistance, and Ohm’s Law
Topics on Exam 2
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Magnetic Field
Magnetic Force
Magnetic Dipole Moment Vector
Torque and Force on a Magnetic Dipole in an External Magnetic Field
Calculating Magnetic Fields using Biot-Savart Law
Calculating Magnetic Fields using Ampere’s Law
Electromotive Force
Faraday’s Law