Week 27 Wednesday May 17 is All-Campus Mentoring Day and Academic Fair.

• You can find the list of Mentoring Day sessions here. Sessions are at 2:00 and 3:00.
• Those of you looking for external faculty eyes on your Academic Statement (especially graduating seniors!) can sign up for a 15 minute Individual Academic Statement Support Session here.
• Academic Fair is from 4:00 – 6:00 in the CRC.

• PS#15/#12 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.

On Tuesday May 9 from 10 -11 in the CAL, we’ll have an in-program workshop on Academic Statements and Self-Evaluations.

• Academic Statements for continuing students are due Week 27 Thursday May 18 (the day after Academic Fair) and for graduating students are due Friday June 16 (end of conference week) (see details here).
• Please bring with you or have access to your updated Academic Statement (you hopefully have a statement updated at least as of fall).
• Please bring your PSAM spring syllabus.
• Please bring your copy of Phys21: Preparing Physics Students for 21st Century Careers (you got a copy of this booklet the first day of spring quarter; if you missed getting a copy, there should be one or two left in the box on the side counter in the Cave or you can use the electronic version found at the given link; there’s no need to print out a new copy).

• Qu¡xam 3E covered Griffiths Ch. 9 and 10.1.
• Revisions due Thu. May 11 at 9am. If you choose to do a revision, standard revision guidelines apply.

Problem Sets to be completed in your corresponding PSNs by noon Sun. May 14.

• EM PS#15: Griffiths: 10.12, 10.13, 10.14, 10.24 || 10.16, 10.23, 10.29, 10.30.
• QM PS#12: Townsend: 9.9, 9.12, 9.16, 9.18, 9.19, 9.20, 9.21, 9.22. Notes: 9.17 is not assigned for this set, but it’s a canonical problem; I handed out an appendix from Eisberg & Resnick last week that covered this problem (if you missed picking up the handout, it is on the side counter in the Cave).

• I’ve added notes to your Collaborative Problem Set Solutions for EM PS#13 and EM PS#14; please recall that you need to be logged in to access these.
• Please compare the solutions in your Problem Set Notebook to these solutions, updating or correcting as you need to. If you disagree or would like further clarification, please send me an email.
• I’ll do a spot check of your EM PSN for EM PS#13 and PS#14, so please bring with you and leave on the front table in the CAL. If you didn’t submit for an earlier EM PSN check but have that for me to check, please flag it clearly somehow, and I’ll check as well. Similarly for your QM PSN, but I can also look at that next week.

Week 26 Reading:

• EM: Griffiths 10.2-10.3 (Reminder: video lectures here)
• QM: Townsend 9.7-9.9 (9.10)

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

Week 26 Schedule:

• Mon. May 8 (CAL)
  • 9 – 10: Qu¡xam 3E! (covers Ch. 9, 10.1); EM PSN check
    
  • 10 – 11: Qu¡xam 3E! Workshop
  • 11 – 12:30 Break
    • 11:15 – 12:15 Optional Reading Group meeting
      
  • 12:30 – 1:30: EM Lecture 1
  • 1:45 – 2:45: QM Lecture 1
• Tue. May 9
  • 9 – 10: EM Lecture 2 (CAL)
    
  • 10 – 11: Academic Statement & Self-Evaluation session (CAL); see this post.
  • 11 – 12:30 Break
    
  • 12:30 – 1:30: QM Problem Session 1 (Cave)
  • 1:45 – 2:45: QM Lecture 2 (Cave)
• Wed. May 10 (Cave)
  
  • 9 – 10:30: ALP Presentations
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Break
  • 11 – 12: EM Problem Session 2
  • 12 – 1: EM Lecture 3
• Thu. May 11 (Cave)
  • 9 – 10: EM Problem Session 3
  • 10 – 11: QM Problem Session 2
  • 11 – 12: Break
  • 12 – 3:30: ALP open lab time; Programming check-in; Contract check-in; Individual meetings – Academic Statements

• PS#14/#11 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.

• Simulation and Simulation directions
• Visualizations

Dear ElectroMagneticians! Several students conveyed to me interest in and confusion about phase velocity and group velocity. I found a set of lecture notes that I thought provided more useful details than the discussion in Griffiths 9.4 at this page. If you scroll down to Course Materials, you’ll find a link to .pdf on phase & group velocity. The .pdf links to a nice series of visualizations that begin here. There are also notes on dispersion and EM waves in conductors (basically several supplements to Griffiths 9.4), also at Course Materials. These are optional supplements, but if you have time, some of you will find them illuminating.