Please email me any Table of Contents you typed up for Instrument Files. Links to (editable, so fully shared) Google Docs or Word .doc or .docx files are fine. In either case, please use Table of Contents-Name of Specific Experiment as the file name. Thank you.

Those of you remaining in the program for full credit need do nothing special. As far as I can tell, this is BB, SD, SM, JR, and TS.

ALL OTHER STUDENTS will need to add the program as a variable credit option. Please bring to class an Add/Drop form. The variable credit CRN is 30020.

For Exam 2 review, you might like easy access to the quizzes since Exam 1. Reviewing the quizzes is necessary but not sufficient preparation – study your homework in particular as well as class notes and reading notes.

Note: EM Quiz 5, question 2) was on electric dipoles, which comes from Griffiths Chapter 4.

For reference, here are the other quizzes from this quarter. The EM material is necessarily cumulative, particularly the ch. 4 material on Electric Fields in Matter. However, EM Exam 2 will explicitly cover material from Griffiths ch. 4 – 6. Similarly, the LA/QM material is in many ways even more cumulative, but LA/QM Exam 2 will explicitly cover material from Townsend Ch. 3 – 5.

• I’ve added notes to your Collaborative Problem Set Solutions for EM PS#8 and QM PS#5; please recall that you need to be logged in to access these.
• Please compare the solutions in your Problem Set Notebooks to these solutions, updating or correcting as you need to. If you disagree or would like further clarification, please send me an email.
• Note: I’ll do a final PSN check during Exam 2: for QM, I’ll look at PS#5 (and PS#6, which we’re completing in class) during QM Exam 2 on Thu. Mar. 16; for EM, I’ll look at PS#8 and PS#9 during EM Exam 2 on Mon. Mar. 20.

• EM PS#9 (complete all in PSN and post individual problem by noon Sat. Mar. 18.):
  • Griffiths: 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.12, 6.13, 6.14, 6.16, 6.17, 6.25(a)(b), 6.26, 6.27 (compare to Problem 4.36; hint: use boundary conditions). Note: many of these have analogs to problems in Chapter 4 that were assigned, so this is a good chance to review those problems.
• QM PS#6: (complete in PSN before QM Exam 2; these all will be or were covered or outlined in class)
  • Townsend: 5.16, 5.18, 5.21, 5.23, 5.26 (use the results of 5.24)

For Week 20, please read the following:

• EM: Griffiths 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
  
  • Reminder: video lectures here.
    
  • 6.4.2 Ferromagnetism is cool but mostly descriptive; feel free to skim if you need.
• QM: Townsend Ch. 5 (continued)
  • Review 5.6 Entanglement and Quantum Teleportation and 5.7 The Density Operator in particular.
    

• Remember to use nb.mit.edu (info on how to access here) or check with faculty for alternatives. Complete first pass of reading and enter annotations (questions, responses, requests for class time) by Tue. 9am and update through week as need.

See this post for this week’s and next week’s schedule.

• PS#8/#5 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.
• Note that many problems are assigned to more than one person. People assigned to the same problem are welcome to work together and submit one solution, or work separately and submit two.

Week 20

• Mon. Mar. 13
  • 9 – 11: Quiz/Workshop
  • 12:30 – 1:30: EM
  • 1:45 – 2:45: LA/QM
• Tue. Mar. 14
  • 9 – 11: P/S
  • 11 – 12:30: Pizza Social, Sem 2 E1107
  • 12:30 – 2:30: LA/QM Exam 2 Review. Exam explicitly covers Townsend Ch. 3 – 5, but the material is inherently cumulative.
• Wed. Mar. 15
  • 9 – 11: EM
  • 11:30 – 1: EM
• Thu. Mar. 16
  • 9 – 12: LA/QM Exam 2
  • 1:30 – 3:30: EM Exam 2 Review. Exam explicitly covers Griffiths Ch. 4 – 6, but the material is inherently cumulative.

Conference Week

• Mon. Mar. 20
  • 9 – 12: EM Exam 2
• Tue. Mar. 21
  • 9 – 1: Quarter Wrap, Potluck, Exam Revision Workshop
• Thu. Mar. 23 & Fri. Mar. 24: Conferences

Here is the proposed spring quarter schedule (click on the image for larger version).

On Tuesday March 14 from 11 – 12:30 in Sem 2 E1107, we’ll have a cross-program mixer with students in the Mathematics in Geology program (program faculty: Rachel Hastings and Abir Biswas). As with our fall mixer with students from Matter and Motion, we’ll provide pizza. The students in this program are mostly in their first and second year, and many are considering programs like INS and Motion next year. Much like some of the M&M students, these students are likely to welcome your experience navigating the mathematical and physical sciences at Evergreen.

A reminder about our schedule for this day:

• 9 – 11: P/S (final seminar of the quarter; curating instrument files; planning for spring projects).
• 11 – 12:30: Pizza lunch with MiG students.
• 12:30 – 2:30: Review for LA/QM Exam 2 (LA/QM Exam 2 is Thursday morning, March 16).