Week 1

Start reading Ch. 1 sections 1 and 2 (AND BEYOND).  The first section should be review (so should some of the other material). Continue reading section 2.  START LOOKING AT AND DOING HOMEWORK PROBLEMS.  You should also review textbook examples as you read.  After the first day of class you should be ahead of me in the reading.  If it appears you have fallen behind, I may give daily in class quizzes to check---quizzes will count on the hw grade as a number of hw problems at my discretion.

HW CH 1
(I have broken larger past assignments into smaller ones)

HW ch. 1---A---------1.4,  1.11,  1.13a,b,  1.15   DUE AUGUST 27

 HW ch. 1-- B----1.18, 1.20, 1.21 a,b, 1.31, 1.32   DUE  SEPT. 4

 LOOKING AHEAD WILL BE ADDITIONAL CH. 1 PROBLEMS --AT LEAST
1.39, 1.42, 1.44, 1.45, 1.46, 1.60----AND MAYBE MORE.

Start each new problem on a new sheet of paper (PART OF GRADING). 

You should draw any supporting figure (PART OF GRADING), and make careful and neat use of notation (PART OF GRADING).  You will get used to my solutions as they come out, but in general I look for set up and conceptual steps. If I have written out the set up explicitly then I may say " take derivatives and use chain rule"...and leave those steps for scratch paper.

You should likewise give sufficient description to a problem so that ANY reader (other physics students) would understand the problem, the setup, and the solutions ---ie---include supporting ENGLISH STATEMENTS (PART OF GRADING)

We may at times make graphs or make figures?  Tools...Maple, Origin, Excel....If I request this as an add on to a problem, then the problem will not receive any credit unless you include your graph.  (PART OF GRADING)

HW1 Goals.  You should be comfortable taking Div, Grad, Curl, Cross products, Line integrals.  These are math tools used to analyze vector fields.

I RECOMMEND THAT YOU START AND COMPLETE (CLEAN COPY FOR HANDING IN) ONE PROBLEM AT A TIME.  THAT WAY, IF YOU GET TIGHT FOR TIME YOU ALWAYS HAVE A LARGE PART OF THE HOMEWORK COMPLETED AND READY BY DUE DATE!