Please find the P/S overview and details here. Copies will be provided to you so no need to print out your own.

The Instrumentation Assignment Schedule shown below is excerpted from the above document.

The Seminar Topic Schedule shown below is also excerpted from that document.

• PS#2 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.

Due to the second physics candidate and the first math candidate, we have modifications to the week 13 schedule. I recognize the Thursday schedule in particular may prove problematic if you have already made out-of-class commitments after 3 – please let me know in advance if this is a problem for you.

• Mon. Jan. 23: 9 – 11 Quiz/Workshop in CAL West. 12:15 – 1:15 LA/QM in CAL West. 1:30 – 2:30 EM in Lab 1 054 (Candidate Teaching Demo).
• Tue. Jan. 24: 9 – 11 LA/QM in Lab 1 054. 12:00-1:00 Candidate Public Presentation in Sem II E1107. 1:30 – 3:30 LA/QM in CAL West.
• Wed. Jan. 25: 9 – 11 & 11:30 – 1 EM.
• Thu. Jan. 26: 9 – 11 P/S. 12:00-1:00 Math Candidate Public Presentation in Sem 2 B1107. 1:30 – 3:00 LA/QM. 3:00 – 4:00 EM & LA/QM Workshop.

For Week 13, please read the following:

• EM: Griffiths 2.3-2.5. Reminder: video lectures here.
• LA: Lay 4.1-4.7 (optional: 2.8-2.9, which summarize 4.1-4.7). Watch Essence of Linear Algebra: Chapter 6, Footnote on nonsquare matrices, Chapter 9; Strang: The Big Picture of Linear Algebra.
• QM: in preparation for starting QM in week 4, read Taylor Ch. 10, Townsend Ch.1, Feynman Volume III Ch. 5.
• 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 Mon. 9am and update through week as need.

EM PS#2 to be completed in your EM PSN (Problem Set Notebook) by noon Sun. Jan. 22. All problems from Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 4th edition.

EM PS#2: 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 2.17, 2.18, 2.46

LA PS#2 to be completed in your LA PSN (Problem Set Notebook) by noon Sun. Jan. 22. This week, all problems from Lay, Linear Algebra and its applications, 5th edition.

LA Problem Set #2: (problems connected with underlines are linked)

• 2.1: 11, 15, 16, 17, 27, 28
• 2.2: 6, 9, 10, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38 (for 33, 34, proofs can be rigorous or plausible, your choice).
• 2.3: 11, 12, 33, 34
• 2.4: 6, 15, 21, 22

• You can pick up a key fob for access to our physics cave from Key Services, which is at the first floor of Lab 2 near the entrance with the elevator. You will need photo id (Evergreen ID preferred).
• If you already have an electronic fob for your on-campus job or other, access to 054A has been added.

Here are revision versions for EM Quiz 1 and LA/QM Quiz 1. Guidelines are on the Quiz Revision versions themselves. If you are planning to do any Quiz Revision, you need to get a signature by the end of the class the afternoon the quiz is administered.

• I’ve added notes to your Collaborative Problem Set Solutions for EM PS#1 and LA PS#1; 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.

• I’m excited that so many of you will be able to join our optional social outing to watch the movie Hidden Figures on Monday January 16 at 10am at the Century Olympia movie theater located in the Capital Mall.
• Please feel free to let your family and friends know; it would be fun if they could join us.
• The movie has “reserved seating” which means that you don’t just buy a ticket to enter the theater, but you are actually purchasing a particular seat. I’m not sure how much this matters, but if you care, you can purchase a seat online in advance, though there is a (somewhat ridiculous) “convenience fee”.