The location and time of the Midterm Test:
Date: Thursday, March 4, 2004
Time: 18:40-19:40
Location: BSB/B154
NOTE:
If you have a schedule conflict with the test, you need to send me an e-mail by Friday, February 27, containing the following information:
name and code of the conflict course and the time at which it meets;
your other academic constraints that afternoon after 15:30.
You must bring your student ID to the test.
Material covered on the test:
The test will cover all the material discussed so far. Make sure you know which statements belong to Neutral geometry, which to Euclidean geometry and which to Hyperbolic geometry. You should be very familiar with all the results that you used while solving homework problems.
Structure of the test:
The test will have 6 questions of which you're required to solve 5 for full credit (see below for details).
The first question will be True/False-type question; this will be one of the required questions. For each statement given you will need to decide if it is True in Neutral geometry, or if it is True in Euclidean geometry (but not in Neutral), or if it is True in Hyperbolic geometry (but not in Neutral), or if it is False in all of the aforementioned geometries.
The remaining 5 questions will be split between Neutral, Euclidean and Hyperbolic geometries. Two of these will be shorter questions and will be required. You will only need to complete two of the remaining three questions to receive full credit.
Preparing for the test:
To prepare for the test you should read through your notes, make sure you're familiar with all the notions used and all the results proved. You should understand the proofs and be able to supply proofs to similar statements. You should also go over the homework problems and make sure you can solve them and know what ideas are used to solve them. Finally, as already emphasized above, you have to know which result belongs to which geometry; I suggest you make a list of Propositions in each geometry.