Final Exam Review

Next Saturday (26 April), I will offer a final exam review session, from 3:30-6pm in Shelby 107. Note the non-standard day, time, room, and building.

I will be around during that whole period to answer questions and review material, you can come and go as you please - it is not really intended that you stay the whole time. I will prepare some example problems to work through, come with your own specific questions and I will try to answer them.

Also, there will probably be video games.

Lab for Thurs 17 April

Today, we will measure Planck's constant.

Open source textbooks in the news

I'm not the only crazy one. Best quote:

“The world doesn’t need another linear algebra textbook on the market — it needs a free one.” - Rob Beezer, a professor of math and computer science at the University of Puget Sound.

Pretty much how I feel about the situation.

MCAT is impending ...

So. I hear many of you have a big nasty test coming up.

Come with sample MCAT problems (ideally with solutions as well, if you have them) and I will solve a few in class on Thursday. I'll bring a couple of my own.

Otherwise, the agenda for Thursday is to solve quantum & atomic physics problems, i.e., the homework set posted yesterday. I think in this case it is easier to understand by just working through some "practical" examples, rather than pontificating too long on how weird it all is ...

After all that, we will measure Planck's constant. Exciting, huh?

This one goes to 11.

Your next homework is out. We'll do plenty of these in class during the week.