Find bugs, get paid.

If you find typos and errors in any of my materials uploaded, let me know, and you will get paid ... with the currency of a small bonus to the homework score of the week. If you find some strange things, you report them to me and then I realize that they are my mistakes, that will also count as your finding the bug.

How to follow this course?

That is a great question.

1. Read before you come to class. The syllabus should guide you as to which chapters of the book will be covered and in which sequence.

2. After the lecture, read my lecture notes uploaded to refresh what we discussed. My lecture notes are generally more detailed in terms of proof and stuff, i.e. those things that are not necessarily good to spend a lot of time on during the lecture. Physics concepts are more emphasized during the lecture.

3. Ask questions and help when you need help! That is your right! Even when/if you don't get answers, I think asking questions help since you are engaging yourself. Tremendously important.

4. It is important to review your homework after your graded homework is returned. If you read my solutions, you may learn some more things, so that is highly recommended. Reviewing your homework will crystallize your knowledge better, and that we know is a good thing, right?

Related to 4, note that the pattern of having a quiz one week after the graded homework is returned will continue. The materials covered in the quiz will be those materials related to the returned homework.

In all of this, you should feel free to ask questions and make suggestions, regarding physics as well as procedure/policy matters.

HW #3

Hope that HW #3 is going well.

I had one correction for prob. 1. Please check the correction at the Homework part of the course web site. Download the new pdf file that includes the correction. Thanks, K, for your pointing this problem out in class.

Any questions about this homework?

Hi, there!

Hi, a few good students of the solid state physics at UCSC! This is meant to be the space for my announcements, Q&A's, and discussions. You can simply add comments to my posting to communicate with me or with your fellow students. Let us see how it goes. Sam