LECTURES, CLASSES AND TUTORIALS
Alexander Schekochihin
Lectures: ODEs (1st year), Kinetic Theory (MMathPhys)
Tutorials: Papers CP3 (1st year), A1 (2nd year)
Merton MMathPhys Seminar (4th year)
Michaelmas Term 2019
| NOTES: Your classes will normally be on Fridays 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. Please turn in all your homework by pidging it to Toby Swann, 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-19 (this may receive some updates as we go along; current version is 16.10.19) 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 2019; still in use by Michael Barnes in his course) |
 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 14 Oct |
17:00-19:00 | Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Class-0 |
Dimensional
Analysis |
| Wed 16
Oct |
17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-1: Alex Christie & Rishin Madan |
Vacation
Work or
any other questions; also bring the Dimensional Analysis homework Vacation Work is due immediately upon your arrival in week 0 |
|
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-1: Andrei Eftime & William Isotta |
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| Thu 17 Oct |
17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-1: Megan Evans & Benedict Yorston |
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| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-1: Andrei Cristea & Jeremi Litarowicz |
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| Fri 18 Oct |
11:00-13:00 |
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 Homework: read sec 1, 2.1 and 2.2 from A. Lukas's notes! |
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| II |
Mon 21 Oct |
17:00 |
TS Eliot LT |
All |
OCCAM LECTURE |
Prof Stuart Bale |
| Wed 23
Oct |
15:15-16:15 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-2: Alex Christie & Rishin Madan | MT-1 due
Sun 20 Oct
23:59 |
|
| 16:15-17:15 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-2: Andrei Eftime & William Isotta |
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| Thu 24 Oct |
17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-2: Megan Evans & Benedict Yorston |
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| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-2: Andrei Cristea & Jeremi Litarowicz | |||
| III |
Mon 28 Oct |
10:30-11:30 |
Lindemann LT |
MMPhys |
Kinetic Theory Lecture 1 |
|
| 16:30-18:00 |
Lindemann LT |
MMPhys |
Kinetic Theory Lecture 2+ |
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| Tue 29 Oct |
12:00-13:00 |
Lindemann LT |
MMPhys |
Kinetic Theory Lecture 3 |
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| IV |
Mon 4 Nov |
10:30-11:30 |
Lindemann LT |
MMPhys |
Kinetic
Theory Lecture 4 |
|
| 16:30-18:00 |
Lindemann LT | MMPhys |
Kinetic
Theory Lecture 5+ |
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| Tue 5 Nov |
12:00-13:00 |
Lindemann LT |
MMPhys |
Kinetic Theory Lecture 6 |
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| Fri 8 Nov |
17:00-19:00 |
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? |
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| V |
Mon 11 Nov |
16:30-18:00 |
Lindemann LT | MMPhys |
Kinetic
Theory Lecture 7+ |
|
| Fri 15 Nov |
17:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Stat
Phys Class-2 |
Thermodynamics cont'd (entropy
etc) Problem Set 1 due Sun 10 Nov 23:59 Look at Problem Set 2 before class |
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| VI |
Mon 18 Nov |
11:00-13:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lectures 1-2 |
|
| 16:30-18:00 |
Lindemann LT | MMPhys |
Kinetic Theory Lecture 8+ |
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| Tue 19 Nov |
11:00-13:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lectures 3-4 |
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| Wed 20 Nov |
17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Tute-1: Radek Grabarczyk & Nic Mitchell | Problem
Set 2 due Sun 17 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) |
|
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Tute-1: Graham Mathews & Robert Vickers | |||
| Thu 21 Nov |
16:30-17:30 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Tute-1: Miles Testa & Alex Pett |
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| 17:30-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Tute-1: Jan Siuta, Marcell Szakaly & Lasse Wolff |
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| Fri 22 Nov |
11:00-13:00 | Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Class-2 |
MT-6 (look at it it before class, prepare questions) Solving ODEs (1st order and systems of) Scalar products Eigenvectors and eigenvalues Stationary points of a function |
|
| VII |
Mon 25 Nov | 11:00-12:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lecture 5 |
|
| 17:15-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Stat Phys Class-3 | Intro to kinetics; effusion Kinetics of Brownian particles Try Problem Set 3 before class! |
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| Tue 26 Nov |
11:00-13:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lectures 6-7 |
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| Wed 27 Nov | 17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Tute-3: Andrei Cristea & Jeremi Litarowicz |
MT-6 due
Sun 24 Nov 23:59 |
|
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-3: Andrei Eftime & William Isotta | |||
| Thu 28 Nov |
17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-3: Megan Evans & Benedict Yorston | ||
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-3: Alex Christie & Rishin Madan | |||
| Fri 29 Nov |
11:00-13:00 | Grove 1.8 | 1 |
Class-3 | MT-7 (look at it it before class, prepare questions) 2nd order ODEs Green's function Liouville's theorem |
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| VIII |
Mon 2 Dec |
11:00-13:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lectures 8-9 |
|
| 17:15-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Stat Phys Class-4 | Collisions and transport Look at Problem Set 4 before class! |
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| Tue 3 Dec |
11:00-13:00 |
M. Wood LT |
1 |
ODEs Lectures 10-11 |
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| 17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 2 |
Tute-2:
Radek Grabarczyk & Nic Mitchell |
Problem
Set 3
due Sat 30 Nov 23:59; questions on Problem Set 4 (vac work) also welcome |
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| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 2 |
Tute-2:
Miles Testa & Alex Pett |
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| Wed 4 Dec |
17:00-18:00 | Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-4: Alex Christie & Rishin Madan | MT-7 due
Sun 1 Dec 23:59 |
|
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-4: Andrei Eftime & William Isotta | |||
| Thu 5 Dec |
17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-4: Megan Evans & Benedict Yorston | ||
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-4: Andrei Cristea & Jeremi Litarowicz | |||
| Fri 6 Dec |
11:00-13:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Class-4 |
MT-8 (look at it it before class, prepare questions) Eigenvalues and eigenvectors cont'd Systems of ODEs, linear and nonlinear |
|
| 16:30-17:30 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Tute-2: Graham Mathews & Robert Vickers | |||
| 17:30-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Tute-2: Jan Siuta, Marcell Szakaly & Lasse Wolff |
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| 1 |
Vacation work: MT-8 |
Tute in HT-2020 |
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| 2 |
Vacation
work: Problem Set 4 |
Tute in HT-2020 |