Day 1
I got up earlier than I would on any normal day. I crammed for another hour or so before heading to class with the following class sporting a midterm. In stat mech, we reviewed turning micro states into entropy and deriving macroscopic quantities of them. We then modelled a 1-d oscillating crystal.
The math 301 midterm wasn't too bad but I didn't get enough practice in with vortices. Read: none. There weren't any practice problems involving them. The last question was tricky too since you had three branch points and had to find a way for them to cancel outside |z| = 1 with all roots on |z|=1. I just argued by symmetry they all had to point to the center - we'll see how that goes.
Marketing was another mind wandering class. We talked about getting statistics for marketing strategies including types of stats and some emphasis on focus groups. At least we get to watch marketing oriented movies/shows/clips in the class to break up the monotony.
Waveguides and photonics: went over a problem set. Huzzah.
We discussed free particles in quantum. Essentially plane waves that require an envelope to describe a proper position. More analogies to optics/fourier analysis. More review... though it's an interesting reminder that the dispersion relation between the group and phase velocities are such that the group is twice the phase. In optics it's almost always the other way around.
I'm a little worried about a development with my 459 project. Apparently, an RF cable we were using for our setup has been reclaimed by the group we were borrowing it from. We have to order another one and this will set us back a week.
The only other thing of note has been how shitty it's been for Matt in the last few days. He's being royally screwed with WEC, the residential musical (organizing the band), midterms and finally having a relative die. My heart's with you man.
Out. I'll work on comedy in the future.
The math 301 midterm wasn't too bad but I didn't get enough practice in with vortices. Read: none. There weren't any practice problems involving them. The last question was tricky too since you had three branch points and had to find a way for them to cancel outside |z| = 1 with all roots on |z|=1. I just argued by symmetry they all had to point to the center - we'll see how that goes.
Marketing was another mind wandering class. We talked about getting statistics for marketing strategies including types of stats and some emphasis on focus groups. At least we get to watch marketing oriented movies/shows/clips in the class to break up the monotony.
Waveguides and photonics: went over a problem set. Huzzah.
We discussed free particles in quantum. Essentially plane waves that require an envelope to describe a proper position. More analogies to optics/fourier analysis. More review... though it's an interesting reminder that the dispersion relation between the group and phase velocities are such that the group is twice the phase. In optics it's almost always the other way around.
I'm a little worried about a development with my 459 project. Apparently, an RF cable we were using for our setup has been reclaimed by the group we were borrowing it from. We have to order another one and this will set us back a week.
The only other thing of note has been how shitty it's been for Matt in the last few days. He's being royally screwed with WEC, the residential musical (organizing the band), midterms and finally having a relative die. My heart's with you man.
Out. I'll work on comedy in the future.
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