Thursday, April 24, 2008

April is stress management month

From the CW:

"April is stress management month," said Jennifer Turner, coordinator of clinical services for the Counseling Center.
Why am I just finding out about this now? Probably my technique of "more coffee and less sleep" would be frowned upon ...

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Homework 11 solutions

Find them here ... enjoy.

I will try to get solutions to exam II out soon as well.

Final Exam

You may have noticed that our final is

FRIDAY 9 May, 8am-10:30am
329 Gallalee

It is very early, and on Friday. I dislike this too, but we are stuck with it. I will bring donuts or something.

This is it, the last homework set.

Here you go. Mostly, it is review, with a couple of problems thrown in from the atomic and nuclear physics we will cover this week ... just so that isn't a surprise on the final. In fact, this will serve as a good review for the final. I will go over these during Saturday's review session, as well as during class this week.

The homework is officially due this Friday, in observance of dead week, but I will not assign any late penalties for this homework so long as it is turned in before 5pm on the last day of classes. Read that any way you like.

There will be no new assignments or graded work during dead week. We will only cover "special topics" not on the final, and review for the final.

So, basically, besides one more lab and one more quiz, this is it.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

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.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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.