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1. Is it true that you cannot use your calculator?
2. No formula sheets or anything like that is provided right?

By Sovietman (Sovietman) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 01:21 am: Edit

nothing but the test and a pencil

By Canadian_Idol (Canadian_Idol) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 05:50 am: Edit

very interesting...how do you do calculations like taking the square root of a number in scientific notation like (1.6*10^(-27)) w/out a calculator?

By Makodan (Makodan) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 11:17 am: Edit

The only math they give you on that test is very simple. You dont need to use math to solve most of the problems anyways since they are mostly concept.

By Clickspring (Clickspring) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 12:44 pm: Edit

You don't need a calculator on the test...none of the math is that involved.

By Professormom (Professormom) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 01:13 pm: Edit

"how do you do calculations like taking the square root of a number in scientific notation like (1.6*10^(-27)) w/out a calculator?"

That should be easy to do in your head without a calculator!

Note that:

(1.6*10^(-27)) = 16*10^(-28)

and since sqrt (a*b) = [sqrt(a)]*[sqrt(b)]

and sqrt(10^2x) = 10^x,

the answer comes out nicely as 4.0*10^(-14)

By Useatoothbrush (Useatoothbrush) on Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 02:46 pm: Edit

Yeah, all the numbers they give you might look intimidating,but you can use basically the same process professormom did and they do work out quite pretty.