A beautiful blanket of snow will likely lead to dangerous conditions, so the College has cancelled classes on Mon. Feb. 6. Here’s how I think we can adjust (assuming campus is open on Tuesday!):
- On Tue. Feb. 7, we’ll take the first hour of class for a quiz and workshop on last week’s LA/QM material. We’ll use the second hour of the morning to cover Lay 5.3 (and 5.4), and the afternoon slot to work on Townsend Chapter 2.
- On Wed. Feb. 8, we’ll take the first hour of class for a quiz and workshop on last week’s EM material. We’ll take the remainder of the morning for Griffiths 3.3 and 4.1 (and postpone 4.2).
- On Thu. Feb. 9, we’ll have a regular day, with P/S in the morning (on Faraday Rotation and Magnetic Domains) and continuing with Townsend Chapter 2 in the afternoon.
- You’ll notice that this plan cuts 2 hours from the time we would have had with Townsend Chapter 2. I welcome your creativity in thinking this through. I have turned comments on for this post (I think) so we can use that to discuss options.
Could we have a longer lecture on Thursday and extend the “workshop” time passed 3:00 in order to ask specific and clarifying questions to you as needed?
To get the discussion going, we could have something online where we all start to outline/define the connections between Linear Algebra and this week’s Quantum ch2 definitions (since we’re doing a lot of relearning LA in a new context)