History of Updates

  • March 1: For problem 3.1, the tutor's solution incorrectly plots the (420) planes rather than the (210) planes!
  • February 26: Updates to tutor's solutions. Mainly for set 5.
  • February 26: Problem set 5. Minor updates.
  • February 2: Problem set 5, problem 5.4 and 5.5 had mixed usage of B and H for magnetic field. It is now all in terms of B.
  • January 24: Tutors notes are updated at the tutor web site. Corrections to problem set 4 mentioned below are now included.
  • January 17: Added one more problem in section 2 of the additional problems section
  • January 17: Slight update to wording of problem 4.3b (Credit Simon Davenport)
  • January 15: A number of updates to tutors notes for problem set 4. 4.2 had - signs and factors of 2 wrong in subscript of V. A few minor clarifications. Typesetting problems in 4.5. Plus fix in 4.5.a.v. as per below (Credit Simon Davenport)
  • January 15: Changed 4.5.a.v after realizing it was not well defined. 4.5.c fixed chemical poetential not fermi energy. 4.2 uses x not r for position consistently now. (Credit Simon Davenport)
  • January 13: Updates to Tutors notes for problems 3.1b and 3.7a. (Credit Simon Davenport)
  • January 13: Two missing minus signs in Problem set 3. kg m^{-3} at end of 3.6 and the nuclear scattering length of H in problem 3.7 is negative. (Credit Simon Davenport)
  • January 12: Problem 6.7 Clarified (Credit Mike Glazer)
  • January 12: Update to Tutors notes to problems 2.3bii (typo), 2.4b (typo) and 2.7 (typo). (Credit Simon Davenport)
  • January 12: Update to Homework 2: (noncrucial) sign error at end of 2.2 fixed. Typo in 2.5c (Credit Simon Davenport)
  • January 12: Update to Homework 1: Typo in problem 1.2b. Changed gm to gram in two places. Numbering in Problem 1.4 (Credit: Simon Davenport)
  • January 12: Update to Homework 5. Hint added to 5.5biii, clarification of 5.2e (Credit: Alex Hearmon)
  • January 11: Lecture Notes go to press! (yay!)
  • Janurary 8: Supposedly final Version of Lecture Notes