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Contents 1 Class Information 1.1 Office 2 Supplemental Material 3 Week by Week 2007 4 2007 Homework Assignments 5 Week by Week from 2006 6 Mathematica resources 7 Useful Mathematica Notebooks

[edit] Class Information

course schedule, contact info and grading policy

TICC forum for PHGN 311

Download course syllabus

For course assistance and discussion, please visit the Math Physics Course Forum

[edit] Office

• John Scales, jscales@mines.edu, http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales

office hours: M 2:30-4, T 8-9:00 (review session), Tr 2-3 in Meyer Hall 339

• Brian Zadler, bzadler@mines.edu (will offer extra help sessions at a time TBD)
• Jared Peacock, jpeacock@mines.edu (TA and grader for HW)

all three of us can be found in MH 339 and 303-273-3850

[edit] Supplemental Material

Download John Scales' lecture notes on linear systems

This book is free and may be freely distributed. There are also many other free books at Samizdat Press

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[edit] Week by Week 2007

first day

Week of 8/27

Week of 8/29

Week of 9/3

Week of 9/10

First hourly exam: October 10 in MH 220 at 10:00 This will be openbook/opennote but no callculators.

Week of 9/17

Week of 9/24

Week of 10/1

Download sample questions for the first exam....now with answers

I will go over these in class on Monday 10/8.

Week of 10/8

10/17 - 10/19

Download test 1

Download Mathematica notebook with solutions to first exam

Week of 10/22

Week of 10/29

Second Test will be Monday November 19

Week of 11/5

Week of 11/12

Week of 11/26

Week of 12/3

Download test 2

Download Mathematica notebook with solutions to second exam

Download sample problems for final, with solutions

Download more sample problems for final, with solutions

[edit] 2007 Homework Assignments

HW1 due 9/4/07

HW2 due 9/11/07

Download solutions to HW 2.

HW3 due 9/18/07

Download solutions to HW 3.

HW4 due 9/25/07

Download almost complete solutions to HW 4.

HW5 due 10/2/07

Download solutions to HW 5.

HW6 will go out on 10/5 and be due 10/12

Download solutions to HW 6.

HW7 due 10/26/07

Download Homework Points Distribution for Hw 1 and 2

HW 8 due 11/2/07

Download solutions to HW 8.

HW 9 this is a short one, due next Tuesday 11/6/07

HW 10 due next Tuesday 11/13/07

Download solutions to HW 10.

HW 11: do not turn this in.

[edit] Week by Week from 2006

Week of 8/28:

Week of 9/4:

Week of 9/11:

Week of 9/18:

Week of 9/25:

Week of 10/2:

Exam 1 preparation:

Week of 10/9:

Week of 10/16:

Week of 10/23:

Week of 10/30:

Week of 11/6:

Week of 11/13/:

Week of 11/20:

Week of 11/27:

Week of 12/4:

Final exam will be Wednesday, Dec 13 10:15am - 12:15pm in MH 220.

sample questions for the final

Download Answers to first midterm

Download Answers to second midterm

[edit] Mathematica resources

First tutorial lesson. Fire up Mathematica. Click the upper right-hand "help" menu. Select tutorial.

Tutorial and exercises from PH Field Session, links, sample notebooks

Mathematica tutorial from Wolfram INC

from IMSAAA

[edit] Useful Mathematica Notebooks

Note: If you choose to use these Mathematica Notebooks as templates for a solution you turn in, please observe the following rules:

• Remove existing comments and section headings and replace them with your own. Be sure to put in a written explanation of what you are doing!
• Make sure that your Notebook runs correctly if saved and re-run from scratch with Mathematica. (New users often generate Notebooks consisting of a random sequence of attempts to simplify expressions, with non-reproducible results because competing variable definitions were used at different times.)
• If you turn in a printout, make sure it is printed `2up', i.e., with two logical Notebook pages per physical sheet. This is easy enough to read without wasting paper.