• As noted in the Updated Course Calendar and the Week 19 Calendar page, CM this week starts Tuesday at 12:30pm and continues until 3:30 pm.
• For Wednesday’s APLS, please bring your copy of the AAPT Recommendations for the Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Curriculum, which you received on the very first day of class this winter quarter. If you’ve misplaced your copy, then please print out a new one to bring with you.
• Academic Fair is this Wednesday from 4 – 6pm in the CRC gym. I’ll be available there from 4 – 5:30, so please come see me then if you are thinking about details of spring quarter (e.g. your advanced lab project work), summer work, or thinking ahead to next year.
• On a related note, if you are thinking about (or planning on) leaving PSAM at the end of winter quarter, please let me know right away so that we can discuss the details of your exiting the program.

• Week 19 Schedule, Reading, and Problem Sets available via the Calendar page link in the main navigation bar.

• You can find the details of our very non-standard Week 18 schedule at the Week 18 Calendar page.
• 9:30-10:30am: Student-directed workshop on QM Quiz Q5 (Quizhome Q5 will be due 9:30am Tue. Mar. 5).
• 10:30-11:30am: Student-directed workshop on Error Analysis to work on any uncompleted questions. Reminder: Complete EA PSN and Log due 1pm Fri. Mar. 1 to the Cave; make a pile on the back table.
• 12:30-3:30pm: Student-directed workshop on CM/EM/QM to work on this week’s Problem Sets or on CM Quixam C3 and EM Quixam E3 revisions. CSS Contributions all to be submitted by 7pm Fri. Mar. 1. Both Quixam revisions due Mon. Mar. 4.

• You can find the details of our very non-standard Week 18 schedule at the Week 18 Calendar page.
• Wed. Feb. 27 is actually pretty much the same as a typical Wednesday.
• Class begins at 9am with Error Analysis workshop (this will be shorter than usual, as you will have had quite a lot of time on Tuesday to self-direct a workshop on this material) followed by Hidden Figures presentations, followed by Instrument Seminars on Brownian Motion, Laser Cavities, and Quantum Optics (Single Photon Interference).
• Instrument Seminar Summaries for G, H, and I are due at 9am.
• Bring/drop-off CM, EM, and QM PSNs and Logs at 9am for checks.

• EM: Qu¡xam E3, Tue. Feb. 26, 1 – 2pm followed by student-directed workshop from 2 – 3pm (note correction to Problem 2a; your response may have been marked correct on your returned quixam, but no score should have been assigned as the problem as originally given is too flawed)

• Missed Quixam Protocol

• You can find the details of our very non-standard Week 18 schedule at the Week 18 Calendar page.
• On Tue. Feb. 26 from 9:30 – 11:30am, students should meet in the Cave and self-direct a workshop on Error Analysis material, specifically focusing on this week’s assignment from Ch. 11 and 12, but also on any old material. This is in preparation for a shorter-than-usual EA workshop during Wednesday’s APLS time, and particularly in preparation for submitting your completed EA PSN and Log by the due time of 1pm Fri. Mar. 1.
• On Tue. Feb. 26, EM Qu¡xam! E3 will be available in the Cave by 1pm. As discussed last week, take the quixam under standard conditions starting at 1pm, monitoring your time, and complete by 2pm. From 2 – 3pm, facilitate between you all a quixam workshop (see the quixam instructions). At the end of your self-directed quixam workshop, turn in your quixams.

• QM: Quiz Q5, due Thu. Feb. 28 by 9:30am.
• Note: you have a suggested 45 minutes to work on this, but as always, this suggestion is not a requirement and you should report the estimated time spent.
• Reminder: you will have a student-directed and tutor-supported quiz workshop on this quiz starting at 9:30am on Thu. Feb. 28. This will be followed by a student-directed Error Analysis workshop from 10:30 – 11:30 in anticipation of the 1pm Fri. Mar. 1 due date for completed EA PSN and Log.

• A reminder that the first class meeting of Week 18 starts at 9:30am on Mon. Feb. 25 and meets in the Cave (not the CAL). It will be a QM workshop on Ch. 5 material, with John.
• You can find the details of our very non-standard Week 18 schedule at the Week 18 Calendar page.
• QM Quiz Q5 should become available by 9:30am on Mon. Feb. 25.

• Week 18 Schedule, Reading, and Problem Sets available via the Calendar page link in the main navigation bar.
• Note there are many changes to this week’s schedule. Pay close attention to the details
• Please note changes to the Reading Response Rotation assignments available at the PSAM Community folder, available by clicking here.

I’ve adjusted our course calendar in response to the weather-related closures. There are also paper copies in the Cave for anyone who didn’t pick one up on Wednesday.

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