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. Jesse Schelfhout will be helping me with the marking of CP3 this year and Ollie Breach with A1. Jesse, Ollie 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 Jesse and Ollie 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). |
CP3:
Problem Sheets for MT-22 (this may be
updated in real time)
CP3: Andre Lukas's Problem Sets for V&M (this is the MT-17 version; John Magorrian was 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-20 (if you want a copy, drop me a line):
CP3: Andre Lukas's Problem Sets for V&M (this is the MT-17 version; John Magorrian was 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-20 (if you want a copy, drop me a line):
- R. Kubo, Thermodynamics: An Advanced Course with Problems and Solutions (N. Holland 1968) --- Chapters 1-3 are relevant to this term's course
- R. Kubo, Statistical Mechanics: An Advanced Course with Problems and Solutions (N. Holland 1965) --- this is mostly HT-22 material, but Kinetic Theory is in Chapter 6
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 16 Oct |
17:00-19:00 | Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Class-0 |
Dimensional Analysis |
| Tue 17 Oct |
17:00 |
TS Eliot LT |
All |
OCCAM
LECTURE |
Prof Ilya Nemenman |
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| Wed 18 Oct |
17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-1: Eleanor Clark & Daniel Orton |
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: Edwin De Nicolo & Elizabeth
Norton |
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| Thu 19 Oct |
18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-1: Romee Tiffou & Noah Yudkin |
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| Fri 20 Oct |
17:00-19:00 |
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! |
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| III |
Wed 25 Oct |
16:45-17:45 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-2: Eleanor Clark & Daniel Orton | MT-2 due Sun
22 Oct at 23:59 to Dropbox |
| 17:45-18:45 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-2: Edwin De Nicolo & Elizabeth Norton | |||
| Thu 26 Oct |
18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-2: Romee Tiffou & Noah Yudkin | ||
| Fri 27 Oct |
17:00-19:00 |
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] |
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| IV |
Fri 3 Nov |
17:00-19:00 |
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 |
Fri 10 Nov |
17:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Stat Phys Class-2 | Thermodynamics cont'd (entropy etc) Problem Set 1 due Sun 5 Nov 23:59 to Dropbox Look at Problem Set 2 before class |
| VI |
Wed 15 Nov |
17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 2 |
Tute-1: I. Elgueta |
Problem
Set 2 due Sun 12 Nov 23:59 to Dropbox In tute, we'll discuss PS-1,2 + any conceptual issues you care to raise |
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 2 |
Tute-1: M. Giroux & L. Macro
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| Thu 16 Nov |
17:30-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 | 2 |
Tute-1: W. Blakey, M. Harding & Q.
Wang |
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| Fri 17 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 18 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 |
Wed 22 Nov | 17:00-18:00 | Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-3: Edwin De Nicolo
& Elizabeth Norton |
MT-6
due Sun 19 Nov 23:59 to Dropbox |
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-3: Romee Tiffou & Noah Yudkin | |||
| Thu 23 Nov |
18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-3: Eleanor Clark
& Daniel Orton |
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| Fri 24 Nov |
15:00-17:00 | 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 25 Nov |
11:00-12:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Tute-2: I. Elgueta | Problem Set 3 due
Sun 19 Nov 23:59 to Dropbox |
|
| 17:30-18:30 | Grove 1.8 | 2 |
Tute-2: M. Giroux & L. Macro | |||
| Sun 26 Nov | 11:00-12:30 |
Grove 1.8 | 2 |
Tute-2: W. Blakey, M. Harding & Q. Wang | ||
| VIII |
Tue 28 Nov |
17:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
2 |
Stat Phys Class-4 | Collisions and transport Look at Problem Set 4 before class! |
| Wed 29 Nov |
17:00-18:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-4: Eleanor Clark & Daniel Orton | MT-7
due Sun 26 Nov 23:59 to Dropbox |
|
| 18:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-4: Edwin De Nicolo & Elizabeth Norton | |||
| Thu 30 Nov |
17:30-18:30 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Tute-4: Romee Tiffou & Noah Yudkin | ||
| Fri 1 Dec |
17:00-19:00 |
Grove 1.8 |
1 |
Class-5 |
MT-8 (look at it it before class, prepare questions) Systems of linear ODEs |
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| 1 |
Vacation work: MT-8 |
Tute in HT-2024 |
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| 2 |
Vacation
work:
Problem Set 4 |
Tute in HT-2024 |