• Please read this post for background.
• Quixam! 4Q&5Q available here.

We will need to use our alternate plan for Quixam! 4Q & 5Q, since campus is again closed on Monday June 5. Instead of taking the quixam together from 9 – noon in the Cave, it will instead be administered as a take-home version.

At 9am Mon. June 5, the Quixam! will become available at the program web-site for you to download. You have up to three hours to work on the exam. If possible, I strongly encourage you to work on it from 9 – noon so at to closely replicate the original exam parameters. As much as possible in all the important ways, this should be treated as if it were the in-class exam session. I will do my best to provide clarity if you email me questions, but I can’t promise what the turn-around time for the responses will be.

Below is the text of what you will be asked to certify about the quixam:

“By signing below, I certify that the only materials I used to complete this exam (besides paper and writing implement) were my personally prepared 3 inch x 5 inch notecards for this and earlier quixams and my calculator or equivalent (except where specifically prohibited). I certify that I did not use any other resources (including but not limited to internet or on-line resources). I certify that I used no more than three hours to work on this quixam. I also certify that I did not discuss the questions on this exam with any other person in any way, with the possible exception of my program faculty.”

You will submit your Quixam at the very beginning of the very next class meeting we have together.

Here’s the planned schedule for our final week of class meetings. We’ll play by ear as necessary, so please continue to be flexible.

Please note that all class meetings this week are in the Physics Cave.Reminder: ALL PSAM students are expected to attend Wednesday’s ALP Final Presentations, from 9 – 1. I expect that if you have some legitimate scheduling conflict, you will contact me right away.

Week 30 and Conference Week Schedule:

• Mon. June 5 (Cave)
  • 9 – 12: Qu¡xam 4Q and 5Q! (covers Ch. 10, Ch. 11). QM PSN check
• Tue. June 6 (Cave)
  • 9 – 11: Qu¡xam 5E! (covers Ch. 12). EM PSN check.
  • 12 – 3:30 Open Time to help with ALP final presentations, review ALP papers, consult on Senior Academic Statements, etc.
• Wed. June 7 (Cave)
  • 9 – 1: ALP Final Presentations (all PSAM students expected to attend)
• Thu. June 8 (Cave)
  • 9 – ?: Breakfast Potluck, Qu¡xam Revision Session, Final Program Wrap and Look Forward, Special Surprise!
• Sat. June 10: Qu¡xam revisions due by 9am to box in Physics Cave.

• Mon. June 12:
  • Non-graduating-student Self-Evaluations posted and shared with faculty via your my.evergreen.edu by noon.
  • Final drafts of senior Academic Statements submitted to faculty, either by email or Google docs, by noon.
• Tue. June 13 and Wed. June 14: Final Conferences.
• Fri. June 16: GRADUATION!

Please note that any class meetings in week 30 will be in the Cave. I’ve released our CAL reservations this week so other programs can use them. So, all our class meetings this final week of the program will be in the Physics Cave.

• PS#18/#15 Solutions Assignments can be accessed here.
• Note that you will need to be logged in to our program web-site to access the page linked above. If not logged-in, you can do so via this link.
• People assigned to the same problem are welcome to work together and submit one solution, or work separately and submit two.

Many MC questions on quizzes, quixams, and exams this year have come from released GRE Physics subject tests.

• For EM PS#18 and QM PS#15, you have been assigned one of the 5 released exams (see below).
• Look through your assigned exam, and identify questions that are relevant to Griffiths Chapter 12 and Townsend Chapter 10 and Chapter 11. Use your best judgment.
• Enter into this spreadsheet. Note the different tabs for each of EM Ch. 12, QM Ch. 10, QM Ch. 11.
• Do your best to figure out the correct answer. If you can’t figure out the correct answer but can narrow it down to fewer choices, indicate that as well.
• Feel free to contribute for exams you are not assigned.

Problem Sets to be completed in your corresponding PSNs by noon Sun. June 3. These are the last Problem Sets of PSAM!

• EM PS#18: Griffiths: 12.44, 12.46, 12.47, 12.48, 12.66, 12.68, GRE MC Jamboree. Notes: for 12.48(c), you will want to review the Doppler shift for light; for 12.66, you may find it convenient to choose a coordinate system so that E points in the z direction and B is in the yz plane, such that E = (0, 0, E) and B = (0, B cos φ, B sin φ).
• QM PS#15: Townsend: 11.6, 11.10, 11.12, 11.14, 11.16, GRE MC Jamboree. Notes: 11.14 canceled from assignment.

Week 29 Reading:

• EM: Griffiths 12.3.1-12.3.2 (Reminder: video lectures here)
• QM: Townsend 11.5-11.8
  

• Please email me to ask questions, request particular coverage of topics, etc.

Week 29 Schedule:

• Mon. May 29
  • Memorial Day – no class meetings
• Tue. May 30
  • 9 – 11: EM Lecture
  • 11 – 12:30 Break
    
  • 12:30 – 2:30: QM (Cave)
• Wed. May 31 (Cave)
  
  • 9 – 10:30: ALP Presentations
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Break
  • 11 – 1: EM
• Thu. June 1 (Cave)
  • 9 – 10: EM
  • 10 – 11: QM
  • 11 – 12: Break
  • 12 – 3:30: ALP open lab time; Programming check-in; Contract check-in; Individual meetings (including Academic Statements)
• Fri. June 2
  • Science Carnival – sign-up here

• PS#17/#14 Solutions Assignments can be accessed here.
• Note that you will need to be logged in to our program web-site to access the page linked above. If not logged-in, you can do so via this link.
• People assigned to the same problem are welcome to work together and submit one solution, or work separately and submit two.

Sign-up sheet for Science Carnival available here.

• Advanced Lab Project students are Experts on their projects.
• Other students will serve as Support for the Experts.
• All students are expected to participate in Science Carnival, either as Experts or Support and also through attending non-PSAM presentations.
• My suggestion is that Experts are presenting for half an hour, then on break for half an hour, then presenting for half an hour, then on break for half an hour, etc.
• My suggestion is that Support sign up for a full hour, so they are with the Expert for the first half hour and then without the Expert for the second half hour.
• Support folks should sign up for 2 1-hour slots.