Whither, Weather? Mon. Feb. 11

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If you are able, please email me directly to let me know how you are doing. I know lots of areas in Olympia are still without power. If you are in touch with someone (say via text or other means) who can’t email me because they don’t have power or internet, please email me on their behalf.

As you likely know, campus remains closed on Mon. Feb. 11. It’s unclear when classes will resume, so we’ll continue to adjust for each day as we learn more.

For now, here’s what we will do:

  • QM Quiz 4 will become available online by 9:30am Mon. Feb. 11 as it normally would. As our in-class workshop on the at-home first draft is not until Thu. Feb. 14 and the revised version not due until Tue. Feb. 19, this seems reasonable for now.
  • We’ll hope to take CM Qu¡xam C3 (originally scheduled for the morning of Mon. Feb. 11) on Tue. Feb. 12 at 1pm (during regularly scheduled CM lecture/discussion time). We’ll move the Taylor Chapter 5 material we would have covered at that time to the following week, so there won’t be a CM PS this week. If we continued to be closed on Tuesday, we’ll take Quixam C3 as an at-home quixam, details TBA.
  • We will not have EM lecture/discussion on the afternoon of Mon. Feb. 11. I will try to assemble materials that cover the material we would have discussed during Monday’s EM class and create a curated collection covering: more on separation of variables in spherical coordinates; separation of variables in cylindrical coordinates assuming no z-dependence; and multipole expansion (the new material this week from Griffiths 3.4). We will take all of the afternoon of Thu. Feb. 14 from 12:30 – 3:30 for EM, starting with lecture/discussion on questions you have with the curated materials, and trying to leave as much time as possible for workshop on this week’s EM PS #6.
  • I will similarly try to make some materials for this week’s Instrument Seminars available. I won’t be able to reproduce the richness of the Instrument Files, but I hope to be able to at least post some of the manuals.

I hope you are safe. Please let me know how you are doing, if you are able to respond to this post/message. I will be happy to see you soon.