LECTURES, CLASSES AND TUTORIALS
Alexander Schekochihin
Lectures: ODEs (1st year), Kinetic Theory (MMathPhys)
Tutorials: Papers CP3 (1st year), A1 (2nd year), B1 (3rd year),
Merton MMathPhys Seminar (4th year)
Michaelmas Term 2018
| NOTES: 1st and 2nd years: Your classes will normally be on Thursday, Friday or Saturday and the corresponding problem sheets will be due on Sunday night following the class (except if indicated otherwise below), with follow-up tutes the week after. I suggest that you attempt the problem sheets before the class, so we could deal with some of the arising problems in class. If you do not do that, it may turn out to be difficult for you to finish your homework on time. Everyone: Please turn in all your homework by pidging it to Toby Adkins, who will be helping with the marking this year. Toby and I cannot guarantee that work that is turned in late will be looked at. He will forward your homeworks to me and I will either leave them in your pidges or bring them to the tute. In the case of the latter eventuality, please make notes for yourselves while doing the homeworks to make sure you have a plan for what to discuss during the tutes. Note that Toby also serves as a graduate mentor and you are encouraged to seek appointments with him (although it is not guaranteed that he will have time for you) if after the tutes you are still having difficulties with the material. CP3: Half of the classes and tutorials will be given by Prof Christopher Ramsey. Please arrange your schedule (and process for turning in homework) with him directly. CP3: Problem Sheets for MT-18 (this may receive some updates as we go along; current version is 12.10.18) CP3: Andre Lukas's Problem Sets for V&M (this was the MT-17 version; John Magorrian is using the same problem sets and so shall we) CP3: My Lecture Notes and Problem Sets on ODEs (updated in real time, check back!) Pre-2013 Merton Maths questions (the V&M questions can be used for revision; others are mostly the same as in the new sheets) My Lecture Notes on Dimensional Analysis (2011) Richard Fern's typed, improved version of these notes (2015) A1: My Lecture Notes on Kinetic Theory and Statistical Mechanics for 2nd year (last updated 2018) B1: Course webpage B1: I will cover the Chaos etc. part of the course. Fluid dynamics will be covered by Prof James Binney (arrange your schedule with him); Biophysics (last 6 lectures) by Toby Adkins (class in HT). Some notes on Kolmogorov turbulence Xmas Questions (totally optional) |
 A sketch of students (or, perhaps, fellows) in a manuscript of William of Ockham's commentary on Aristotle's Physics (MS293 from the Merton College library, image courtesy of J. Walwarth). |
| Week |
Date |
Time |
Place |
Year |
Class/Tute |
Notes |
| I |
Mon 8 Oct |
17:00-19:00 | Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Class-0 |
Dimensional
Analysis |
| Wed 10
Oct |
16:00-17:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-1: Radek Grabarczyk & Nic Mitchell | Vacation
Work or
any other questions; also bring the Dimensional Analysis homework Vacation Work is due immediately upon your arrival in week 0 |
|
| 17:00-17:30 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-1: Miles Testa | |||
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-1: Graham Mathews & Marcell Szakaly | |||
| Thu 11 Oct |
17:00-17:30 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-1: Lasse Wolff |
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| 17:30-18:30 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-1: Alex Pett & Jan Siuta |
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| 18:30-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-1: Robert Vickers | |||
| Fri 12 Oct |
13:15-15:15 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Class-1 |
MT-1 (look at it it before class, prepare questions) Differentiation & integration Gaussian integrals Language of vector spaces Einstein notation |
|
| II |
Mon 15 Oct |
17:00 |
TS Eliot LT |
All |
OCCAM LECTURE |
Prof Madhavi Krishnan |
| Wed 17
Oct |
16:00-17:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-2: Radek Grabarczyk & Nic Mitchell | MT-1 due
Sun 14 Oct
23:59 |
|
| 17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-2: Miles Testa & Robert Vickers | |||
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-2: Graham Mathews & Alex Pett | |||
| Thu 18 Oct |
17:00-17:30 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-2: Lasse Wolff |
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| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-2: Jan Siuta & Marcell Szakaly | |||
| IV |
Mon 29 Oct |
10:00-11:30 |
Lindemann LT |
MMPhys |
Kinetic
Theory Lectures 10-11 |
|
| 16:00-18:00 |
Lindemann LT | MMPhys |
Kinetic
Theory Lectures 11-13 |
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| Wed 31 Oct |
16:00-17:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-3: Radek Grabarczyk & Nic Mitchell | MT-3 due Sun 28 Oct 23:59 (class on this by Prof Ramsey in week 3) Curves, line integrals, series, expansions, limits Matrices and maps |
|
| 17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-3: Miles Testa & Robert Vickers | |||
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-3: Graham Mathews & Alex Pett | |||
| Thu 1 Nov |
17:00-17:30 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-3: Lasse Wolff |
||
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Ture-3: Jan Siuta & Marcell Szakaly | |||
| Fri 2 Nov |
13:15-15:15 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Class-2 |
MT-4 (tutes on this by Prof Ramsey in week 5) Matrices, linear equations Multivariate calculus Stationary points of a 2D function: the linear algebra approach (eigenavlues and eigenvectors of a symmetric matrix) |
|
| Sat 3 Nov |
16:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Stat Phys Class-1 | Intro to thermodynamics Please read through your lecture notes so far before class: do you understand the construction of thermodynamics? |
|
| V |
Mon 5 Nov |
10:00-11:30 |
Lindemann LT | MMPhys |
Kinetic
Theory Lectures 13-14 |
|
| 16:00-18:00 |
Lindemann LT | MMPhys |
Kinetic
Theory Lectures 15-16 |
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| Wed 7 Nov |
17:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
3 |
Chaos
Class-1 |
Dynamical systems | |
| Fri 9 Nov |
17:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Stat
Phys Class-2 |
Thermodynamics cont'd (entropy
etc) Problem Set 1 due Sun 4 Nov 23:59 Look at Problem Set 2 before class |
|
| VI |
Mon 12 Nov |
10:00-11:00 |
Lindemann LT | MMPhys |
Kinetic
Theory Lecture 17 |
|
| 11:00-12:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lecture 1 |
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| 16:00-18:00 |
Lindemann LT | MMPhys |
Kinetic Theory Lecture 18-19 |
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| 20:30 |
Fitzjames 1 |
All |
Merton MathPhys Seminar |
Prof Minhyong Kim |
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| Tue 13 Nov |
11:00-13:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lectures 2-3 |
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| 16:30-17:30 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Tute-1: Maeve Dai and Richard Chatterjee | Problem
Set 2 due Sun 11 Nov 23:59 In tute, we'll discuss PS-1,2 + any conceptual issues you care to raise (worth reading: Kardar Ch 1, online version is here) |
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| 17:30-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Tute-1: Oskar Maatta, Rayhan Mahmud & Ross McDonald | |||
| Wed 14 Nov |
17:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
3 |
Chaos Class-2 | Lorentz attractor |
|
| Fri 16 Nov |
13:15-15:15 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Class-3 |
MT-6 (look at it it before class, prepare questions) Solving ODEs (1st order and systems of) Eigenvalues and eigenvectors |
|
| VII |
Mon 19 Nov | 11:00-12:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lecture 4 |
|
| 17:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Stat Phys Class-3 | Kinetics Try Problem Set 3 before class! |
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| Tue 20 Nov |
11:00-13:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lectures 5-6 |
||
| 14:00-16:00 |
Fisher Rm, DWB |
MMPhys |
Kinetic Theory Class-2 |
Problem Set 2 due Sun 19 Nov to Glenn Wagner in TP |
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| Wed 21 Nov | 16:00-17:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-4: Radek Grabarczyk & Nic Mitchell | MT-6 due
Sun 18 Nov 12:00(noon) |
|
| 17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-4: Miles Testa & Robert Vickers | |||
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-4: Graham Mathews & Alex Pett | |||
| Thu 22 Nov |
17:00-17:30 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-4: Lasse Wolff |
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| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-4: Jan Siuta & Marcell Szakaly | |||
| Fri 23 Nov |
13:15-15:15 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Class-4 | MT-7 (look at it it before class, prepare questions) 2nd order ODEs |
|
| 17:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
3 |
Chaos Class-3 | Brownian motion/Langevin dynamics Kolmogorov turbulence (here are some notes) |
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| Sat 24 Nov |
17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
3 |
Tute-1: Roshan Dodhia & Catherine Felce | Problem
Set 3 due Fri 16 Nov 23:59 |
|
| 18:00-18:30 |
Grove 1.8 |
3 |
Tute-1: Georgia Acton |
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| Sun 25 Nov |
17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
3 |
Tute-1:
Andrew Doyle & Jack McIntyre |
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| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
3 |
Tute-1: Jacob Robertson & Leonie Woodland |
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| VIII |
Mon 26 Nov |
11:00-12:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lecture 7 |
|
| 17:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Stat Phys Class-4 | Collisions and transport Look at Problem Set 4 before class! |
||
| 20:30 |
Fitzjames 1 |
All |
Merton MathPhys Seminar |
Prof Minhyong Kim |
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| Tue 27 Nov |
11:00-13:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lectures 8-9 |
||
| 16:30-17:30 |
Grove 1.8 | 2 |
Tute-2: Maeve Dai and Richard Chatterjee |
Problem
Set 3
due Sun 25 Nov 23:59; questions on Problem Set 4 (vac work) also welcome |
||
| 17:30-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 2 |
Tute-2: Oskar Maatta, Rayhan Mahmud & Ross McDonald |
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| Wed 28 Nov | 16:00-17:00 | Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-5: Radek Grabarczyk & Nic Mitchell | MT-7 due
Sun 25 Nov 23:59 |
|
| 17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-5: Miles Testa & Robert Vickers | |||
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-5: Graham Mathews & Alex Pett | |||
| Thu 29 Nov |
17:00-17:30 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-5: Lasse Wolff |
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| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-5: Jan Siuta & Marcell Szakaly | |||
| Fri 30 Nov |
13:15-15:15 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Class-5 |
MT-8 (look at it it before class, prepare questions) Systems of ODEs, linear and nonlinear |
|
| 1 |
Vacation work: MT-8 |
Tute in HT-2019 |
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| 2 |
Vacation
work: Problem Set 4 |
Tute in HT-2019 |
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| 3 |
Xmas Questions (totally optional) | Tute in HT or TT-2019 if
requested |