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CLASSES AND TUTORIALS


Alexander Schekochihin

Papers CP3 (1st year), A1 (2nd year)
  Michaelmas Term 2022

NOTES:
Your classes will mostly 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 placing it in your personal Dropbox folder. Gregory Boyd will be helping me with the marking of CP3 this year and Minghao Li with A1. Greg, Minghao and I cannot guarantee that work that is turned in late will be looked at. I will place the marked version of your work back in your Dropbox folder. 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 Greg and Minghao also serve as a graduate mentors and you are encouraged to seek appointments with them (although it is not guaranteed that they will have time for you in any given week) --- if after the tutes you are still having difficulties with the material. There are other graduate mentors available, listed here

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. 
 
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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)
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CP3: Problem Sheets for MT-22 (this may be updated in real time; current version is 2.09.21)
CP3: Andre Lukas's Problem Sets for V&M (this is the MT-17 version; John Magorrian is using the same problem sets and so shall we)
CP3: My 2021-22 Lecture Notes and Problem Sets on ODEs (still in use this year by the new lecturer, Bence Kocsis)
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: Problem Sheets on Thermodynamics for MT-22
A1: Julien Devriendt's Lecture Notes on Thermodynamics from last year's course
A1: My Lecture Notes on Kinetic Theory and Statistical Mechanics for 2nd year (updated in real time, check back!)

If you would like to try your hand at more advanced material (or just extra material), the following two books proved a great success in David Hosking's lockdown tutorials with 2nd years in TT-2020 (if you want an e-copy, drop me a line):
If any of the 2nd years are sufficiently fascinated by Kinetic Theory to want to study ahead, and at a higher level, you are welcome to attend the MMathPhys Kinetic Theory course. It is a 4th-year course, but the only "advanced" maths it uses is Laplace and Fourier transforms, so if you have done SO-1 you should be fine (although the pace might be quite brisk and you might encounter some allusions to as yet unfamiliar physics material, so if it proves inaccessible, just drop it).

Week
Date
Time
Place
Year
Class/Tute
Notes
II
Mon 17 Oct
17:00-19:00 Grove 1.8
1
Class-0
Dimensional Analysis

Wed 19 Oct
17:00-18:00
Grove 1.8
1
Tute-1: M. Giroux & L. Macro
Vacation Work or any other questions;
also have the Dimensional Analysis homework
ready with you
Vacation Work is due
immediately upon your arrival in week 0


18:00-19:00
Grove 1.8
1
Tute-1: I. Elgueta & I. Prosyanoy

Thu 20 Oct
17:30-18:30
Grove 1.8
1
Tute-1: W. Blakey, M. Harding & Q. Wang

Fri 21 Oct
11:00-13:00
Grove 1.8
1
Class-1
MT-2
(look at it it before class, prepare questions)
Differentiation & integration
Gaussian integrals
Language of vector spaces
Einstein notation
NB: read sec 1, 2.1 and 2.2 from
A. Lukas's notes!
III
Wed 26 Oct
17:00-18:00
Grove 1.8
1
Tute-2: M. Giroux & L. Macro MT-2 due Sun 23 Oct at 23:59
to Dropbox


18:00-19:00
Grove 1.8
1
Tute-2: I. Elgueta & I. Prosyanoy

Thu 27 Oct
17:30-19:00
Grove 1.8
1
Tute-2: W. Blakey, M. Harding & Q. Wang

Fri 28 Oct
11:00-13:00
Grove 1.8
1
Class-2
MT-3
(look at it it before class, prepare questions)
Curves, line integrals
Vector geometry
NB: read sec 2.3 from
A. Lukas's notes!
1st-order ODEs
[Tutorials on this material will be
held by Prof Ramsey]
IV
Sat 5 Nov
11:00-13:00
Grove 1.8
2
Stat Phys Class-1 Intro to thermodynamics
Please read through your lecture notes
before class:
do you understand the construction
of thermodynamics?
Some good reads: Kardar, Ford, and Tong
(see links in my lecture notes)
Look at Problem Set 1 before class
V
Sat 11 Nov
11:00-13:00
Grove 1.8
2
Stat Phys Class-2 Thermodynamics cont'd (entropy etc)
Problem Set 1 due Sun 6 Nov 23:59
to Dropbox
Look at Problem Set 2 before class
[tbc as new lecturer this year!]
VI
Tue 15 Nov
17:30-19:00
Grove 1.8 2
Tute-1: B. Colvin, E. Dyer & S. Sidduqui
Problem Set 2 due Sun 13 Nov 23:59
to Dropbox
In tute, we'll discuss PS-1,2
+ any conceptual issues you care to raise

Wed 16 Nov
17:30-19:00
Grove 1.8 2
Tute-1: J. Bell, P. Luhadiya & J. Rugg

Thu 17 Nov
17:00-18:00
Grove 1.8 2
Tute-1: S. Ehaj-Houssen & L. Liu


18:00-19:00
Grove 1.8 2
Tute-1: L. Kemp & C. Mosquera

Fri 18 Nov
17:00-19:00 Grove 1.8
1
Class-3
MT-6
(look at it it before class, prepare questions)
1st-order ODEs (advanced)
Scalar products, rotation, orthogonal bases
2nd-order ODEs

Sat 19 Nov
11:00-13:00
Grove 1.8
2
Stat Phys Class-3 Intro to kinetics; effusion
Kinetics of Brownian particles
Try Problem Set 3 before class!
VII
Tue 22 Nov
17:00
TSEliot LT
All
OCCAM LECTURE
Professor Peter Davidson

Wed 23 Nov 16:30-17:30 Grove 1.8
1
Tute-3: M. Giroux & L. Macro MT-6 due Sun 20 Nov 23:59
to Dropbox


17:30-19:00
Grove 1.8
1
Tute-3: W. Blakey, I. Prosyanoy & Q. Wang

Thu 24 Nov
18:00-19:00
Grove 1.8
1
Tute-3: I. Elgueta & M. Harding

Fri 25 Nov
17:00-19:00 Grove 1.8
1
Class-4 MT-7
(look at it it before class, prepare questions)
2nd-order ODEs: inhomogeneous
Quasipolynomials
Systems of ODEs
Rapidly oscillating force

Sat 26 Nov
11:00-12:30
Grove 1.8
2
Tute-2: B. Colvin, E. Dyer & S. Sidduqui Problem Set 3 due Sun 20 Nov 23:59
to Dropbox



18:00-19:00 Grove 1.8 2
Tute-2: S. Ehaj-Houssen & L. Liu

Sun 27 Nov 18:00-19:00
Grove 1.8 2
Tute-2: L. Kemp & C. Mosquera
VIII
Tue 29 Nov
17:00-19:00
Grove 1.8
2
Stat Phys Class-4 Collisions and transport
Look at Problem Set 4 before class!

Wed 30 Nov
16:30-17:30
Grove 1.8
1
Tute-4: M. Giroux & L. Macro MT-7 due Sun 27 Nov 23:59
to Dropbox


17:30-19:00
Grove 1.8
1
Tute-4: W. Blakey, I. Prosyanoy & Q. Wang

Thu 1 Dec
18:00-19:00
Grove 1.8
1
Tute-4: I. Elgueta & M. Harding

Fri 2 Dec
12:00-13:30
Beecroft 50.06
2
Tute-2: J. Bell, P. Luhadiya & J. Rugg Problem Set 3 due Sun 20 Nov 23:59
to Dropbox


17:00-19:00
Grove 1.8
1
Class-5
MT-8
(look at it it before class, prepare questions)
Systems of linear ODEs











1
Vacation work: MT-8
Tute in HT-2023




2
Vacation work: Problem Set 4
Tute in HT-2023