Reminder: winter and spring physics quizzes and quixams have been collected here.

• CM: Qu¡xam C9, Mon. May 20

• Missed Quixam Protocol

• Paper copies of the updated course calendar for the end of spring quarter were handed out in class on Thu. May 16 and are still available in the Cave.
• Here is a copy of the Spring’s End Update.

QM Cumulative Final Exam Details: The QM Exam will be an at-home exam. Standard at-home protocols apply: you will be allowed only a previously prepared 8.5inch x 11inch note sheet (both sides) and are not allowed to consult with any person in any way about the exam (other than the faculty) from the time the Exam is made available until the time it is due. You will be firmly limited to 6 hours to complete the Exam. Though these 6 hours need not be used in one continuous block, you are required to track your time carefully to limit yourself to 6 hours total. The Exam will be made available online at 9am Thu. May 23 and will be due to the faculty’s office Lab 2 3255 by 5pm Fri. May 24.

CM and EM Cumulative Final Exams Details: Students may choose to take the CM and EM Exams either in class or as at-home exams (following the at-home protocols given above under QM Cumulative Final Exam Details).

• If taken in class, the exam will be administered starting at 9am, and collected by 3:30pm on the scheduled exam day and will follow standard in-class exam protocols; lunch will be provided by the faculty.
• For those taking at-home, the CM Exam will be available online at 9am Thu. May 30 and due by 5pm Fri. May 31 to the faculty’s office; the EM Exam will be available online at 3pm Mon. June 3 and due by 9am Wed. June 5 directly to the faculty in the Cave.
• Please let faculty know in advance which option you will be taking, by 8:30am on the scheduled exam day.

• Week 28 Schedule, Reading, and Problem Sets available via the Calendar page link in the main navigation bar.
• This is a non-standard week, due to the QM Cumulative Final Exam on Thu. May 23. Please look over the Class Schedule at the Week 28 Calendar page carefully.

• Students planning to register for summer or fall courses or programs need to submit their Annual Academic Statement draft in order to register. You all were given a chance to update your Academic Statement in fall quarter; most of you shared a draft with faculty as part of your conference ticket for fall quarter conferences. However, you might not yet have hit the Turn In button. Please go ahead and Turn In your Academic Statement right away so you are able to register for summer/fall; you can always update it over the next few weeks if you choose.
• Those of you who are planning to graduate in a few weeks (congratulations!) should be working to transform your previous Academic Statement(s) into a Final Academic Statement. I remain available during open lab time on Wednesdays from 10:30am – 1pm in the Cave or by appointment to work with your on your Final Academic Statement. Final Academic Statements are due Fri. June 14 (Graduation Day!).
• We will have an Academic Planning & Statement Workshop for all students on Thu. May 16 during the afternoon workshop to be re-scheduled, and there is an (optional) workshop scheduled for Tue. May 28 in the afternoon particularly intended for graduating seniors.

I was asked to post my lecture slides from EM Class#16, Mon. May 13. Here they are.

• Friday’s tutoring session has been moved to Wednesday May 15 from 3 – 6pm in the Cave.
• No Friday tutoring this week.
• There will be tutoring on Sunday May 19 from 4 – 6pm in the Cave as usual.

• EM: Qu¡xam E8, Mon. May 13
• QM: Quiz Q13, due Thu. May 16 by 9:30am

• Missed Quixam Protocol

• It is difficult to proceed with many of the CM PS#16 problems without the correct Lagrangian.
• The relevant Lagrangians are provided for intermediate self-checks here. Do not use these as starting points, but don’t proceed until you have matched them.
• Drawing diagrams is almost always useful but particularly important for these problems.
• It is key that you be able to write down Lagrangians correctly and apply small angle and small extension approximations appropriately.
• The provided Lagrangians have already had small angle and small extension approximations applied. They can (and should) be algebraically simplified further, but are left in the given form so it is easier to see the physical origin of each term, particularly the coupling term.