- As noted in Winter Break Reading, there will be a quiz on our first day of winter quarter, at our first class meeting.
- The quiz will cover material from Lay chapter 1.1-1.5 (originally, I had also planned a first day quiz on material from Griffiths, but that has changed – see below)
- Each assigned section in Lay chapter 1 has some True/False questions. For convenience, they are collected here. The first day quiz questions will be based on these.
- You may want to answer them and discuss your responses using the online annotation tool at nb.mit.edu; see this post for details.
- Note that for all future reading assignments in Lay, this set of True/False questions at the end of each section will be considered as part of the reading assignment.
- Originally, I had planned a first day quiz covering material from Griffiths 1.1-1.4.
- Instead, we will review this material rapidly in class on the first day.
- In lieu of a first day quiz, I will need your feedback on what particularly you need to see covered in class.
- You can give me this feedback either via:
- the Griffiths Chapter 1 pdf available at nb.mit.edu (see this post for details) or;
- if you can’t use that tool for any reason, you can send me an email that follows the reading response format from fall quarter: for each section or sub-section, describe a) the big physics concept(s); b) the big math(s); c) questions about examples; d) questions/topics you’d like to spend class time on.
- This feedback is due by 9am Mon. Jan. 9 (in order to give me the lunch break to prepare for our discussion in the afternoon).
Physical Systems and Applied Mathematics
Math. Physics. Representing Reality. Knowing Nature.
