Reflecting on the exam, which is almost exclusively drawn from (and covering) the lecture PDFs, perhaps the most helpful advice I can give is that you make sure to have understood particularly the diagrams (for many of the exam questions feature interpretation of a diagram).
Don't forget to being a calculator.(11 Dec.)
There will be 25 multichoice questions, for a total of 25% (no free-format questions).
Files specifying numbers-to-be-remembered and expected map learning have been updated.(25 Oct.)
Answers to the midterm exam (Monday 3 October) are in the file below. (4 Oct.)
The exam will be in the same "style" as the first midterm of 2015, that is, it will be composed of multichoice questions plus a few calculation-based short-answer questions. It will cover to the end of lecture Ch4-B (delivered 26 Sept), i.e. to the end of Chapter 4 (less listed exclusions).
There will be 24 multichoice questions, of which 4 involve interpretation of weather charts, and two calculation-type questions. The multichoice section is worth 18% (i.e. each multichoice question counts for 3/4 percent), while each calculation question is worth 3.5%.
Please note that in 2014 there was only a single midterm exam, held on 15 October. Therefore some material tested on that midterm will be (as yet) unfamiliar, and will not be tested in our upcoming midterm on 3 Oct. 2015. Furthermore some questions from the first midterm of 2015 could not be probed (on 3 October 2016), viz. questions based on Chapter 5 (Radiation), and also Q9. (28 Sept.)
The exam will be in the same "style" as the first midterm of 2015, that is, it will be composed of multichoice questions plus a few calculation-based short-answer questions. It will cover to the end of lecture Ch4-B (delivered 26 Sept), i.e. to the end of Chapter 4 (less listed exclusions).
Please note that in 2014 there was only a single midterm exam, held on 15 October. Therefore some material tested on that midterm will be (as yet) unfamiliar, and will not be tested in our upcoming midterm on 3 Oct. 2015. Furthermore some questions from the first midterm of 2015 could not be probed (on 3 October 2016), viz. questions based on Chapter 5 (Radiation), and also Q9. (26 Sept.)
Pre-requisite for this course: "Any 100-level Mathematics or Physics course, or SCI 100."
The textbook, "Weather & Climate" by S.L. Ross, is available in the bookstore. Two copies have been placed on reserve in the Science & Technology (Cameron) Library