4/3/13

E&M – study for exam

Stat Mech – Quiz Friday.

QM – HW due Tuesday, do some more of this.
Soft Matter – Re-read paper tomorrow, study glasses, and study Witten…prepare presentation ;-;

Gravity – Catch up in general  sadface.

Senior Seminar – Prep for talk.
Plasma Physics – Attend class and try not to sleep  [look into old exams]

DO: Plan every god-darn day of April through the end of the conference.

note to self, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=EKWGGDXe5MA

This is wonderful^

For Senior Seminar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#History_of_the_search_for_its_composition

and the HPS proposal:

https://www.jlab.org/exp_prog/PACpage/PAC37/proposals/Proposals/New%20Proposals/PR-11-006.pdf

Plan for the day:

9:30-10:00 Soft Matter Presentation -was asleep

10:00-10:30 FCNC -was getting to school

11:00-12:00 E&M, attend class/review hw – mission accomplished, submit hw later this evening?

12:00-12:15 Get form signed – done.

12:30-1:00 Stat Mech – done

1:00-1:30 QM HW – done

1:30-2:00 FCNC  -done

2:00-2:30 Stat Mech -done

3:00-4:00 Cosmic Coffee – done

4:30-5:00 Senior Seminar – done

5:00-5:30 Stat Mech -done!

5:30-6:00 empty 😦 -done

6:00-7:00 Panel Discussion – done

7:00-7:30 Post-Panel? – done

7:30-8:00 Senior Seminar -oops

8:30-9:00 FCNC -oops

9:00-9:30 Stat Mech – oops

9:30-10:00 E&M -oooops

10:00-10:30 Stat Meeeech, problems in the text. Done.

10:30-11:00 E&M – problem 10.1 and 10.2…slow is progress? Done with this.

11:00-11:30 FCNC – got plots for gutZ NLO and have data for ratio vs. cross section in sm.

11:30-12:00 Stat Mech – making progress but getting a little tired of stat mech :((

12:00-12:30 ;-; pile up  running over => 16 minutes into it…taking a break for a bit then 12:30 startup.

12:30-1:00 E&M – progress >=P Yeaaaaaaaaaaah Make notes on keypoints later, organize problem by steps ><!

1:00-1:30 Senior Seminar – progress!!!!! lots of notes added, colors changed, slides split 😛

1:30-2:00 FCNC – whew. Plots? yeah. Got some. BOOM. Also, taking a slight break to stand and stuff, ya know? Since I can’t do anymore anyways…..

2:00-2:30 Stat Mech – that was a bit bleehhhh I’m starting to die/

2:30-3:00 Senior Seminar – ehhhhh I’m pretty much done with this.

Scoreboard for the day?

Total time on things, Weds – Friday:
Senior Seminar – 4 hours
Wed 1.5 [SUCCESS]
Thur – 1.5
Fri -1
Stat Mech – 7 hours
Wed 3 [SUCCESS]
Thur 3
Fri 1
E&M – 5 hours
Wed 2 [ SUCCESS]
Thur 2
Fri – 1
FCNC – 4.5 hours
Wed 1.5 [SUCCESS]
Thur 1
Fri – 2
QM HW – 2 hours
Wed-1 [ 3/4 done], failure…but close?
Thur-0.5
Fri-0.5

Cloudy goals [keep in mind for Friday]:maybe take out cosmic rays?
abundances orion usually includes grains, but can’t change dust to gas easily.
tell no grains, then add them back
table 7.2 in Hazy part 1 has abundance data.
ISM grains…?
abundances ISM no grains
grains ISM graphite 9.0hden? maybe do this dynamically
for a given density and temperature call cloudy, integrate up get rosseland mean opacity.

check to see if removing iterate to converge changes timing.

Rosseland mean opacity v. temperature for different dust to gas ratios
^ start with this
1, 5, 10 for dust to gas ratio.

run ISM and not ISM for integrated.

Remove iterate to convergence and check timing.
need lots of opacity files

…mess….

Predrag – “80% of GDP is quantum mechanics…”
;-; Panel Discussion so goooooood

…dinner and internet issues messed things up for several hours, woo?

from Monday’s talk:http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0605036

Note to self: You are registered for lunch with Gingrey tomorrow!

Need to do: Schedule for Thursday, hahaha.

DRAFT:

9:30-10:00 

10:00-10:30

11:00-12:00 Lunch with Gingrey! /Stat Mech half hour?

12:00-12:15 Transition, probs to Howey

12:30-1:00 Stat Mech

1:00-1:30 E&M

1:30-3:00 GR @.@

3:00-4:30 Plasma Physics

4:30-5:00 E&M

5:00-5:30 Stat Mech

5:30-6:00 FCNC

6:00-7:00 E&M

7:00-7:30 Stat Mech

7:30-8:00 QM

8:30-9:00  E&M

9:00-9:30 FCNC

9:30-10:00  Stat Mech

10:00-10:30 E&M

10:30-11:00 Senior Seminar

11:00-11:30 Stat Mech

11:30-12:00 E&M

SLEEP, I SURE HOPE.

March 13, 2012

Researched Error Analysis and such some more…I might need Scientific Linux to install my software for the REU??? Sigh…

Working on VCT stuff, Chapter 10.3. Had an issue with problem 12, briefly but understand now. The video is a fantastic resource… :S messed up 15, whoops..I went the complicated route and messed up somewhere.

~1 hour down, and I feel semi-accomplished. Still have a lot to work on, but this was good practice. Just did 16 over again, and that’s a bit better now. Some things should be obvious, but still are not so I may return to these briefly another time.

~30minutes tutoring

Worked on Commonapp some :S I need to get back to doing math though….stretching/walking around first

11.2.2 and 11.2.5 were jokes so far 11.2.8 was easy but slow, will continue onto 11.3 later

~1 hour of VCT from the above.

Working on financial aid information, then possibly Commonapp and such then maybe dinner?

Working Topology 6.3: 1 and 2 were trivial. Need to finish 3.b. Finished problem 4. Finished problem 5. Need to finish problem 6, not doing problem 7.

Read the section on Convexity, still need to try a problem or two.

~1 hour of Analysis from the above

Learned that I may *not* need Scientific Linux, he just hasn’t test on Ubuntu :S…

~1.5 hours on QED renormalization :S need to check some stuff still…

~.5 hours of tutoring ….ugh…

~ (1/3) hours on Sakurai. . .that book could be very good for me if I can devote time to it later.

March 5, 2012

Hour one: Galois Theory.

Hour two: More Galois Theory, still not ready for tomorrow though 😐 need to finish preliminary notes *before* I go through things for comprehension, and that’s before I do the assigned HW @.@

Taking a mental break and going to try to sit around and tutor for approximately an hour.

Hour three: Tutoring. that was awful…

Hour four: Python, just over half the material for the unit covered.

…bathroom and then to Analysis and Sets?

Hour five: Linear Algebra (VCT) chapter 10; sections 10.1 and 10.2 sort of skipped over an exercise or two from 10.2 though.

~3:11 hmmm probably should sleep now

Feb 20, 2012

30 Minutes of Purcell, wrote up two problems and drafted another. I have a little bit of an issue with writing out things as rigorously as the solutions guide does, but I get the same answer 😛

Started Analysis Take Home…

Biked 10 miles on exercise bike ><! Felt good. Tracking my food intake and exercise …again.

~40 minutes on Python basics ended on processors

30 minutes on Galois Theory, finished problems

Feb 8, 2012

Working on Caltech transfer exam prep. Here’s the outline so far:

Physics:

1. Newtonian mechanics (motion, vectors, trajectories, Newton’s laws, forces),
   1. FP1-completed
   2. FP2-solution in HW6-completed
   3. FP6-solution in HW9
   4. FP9-do
   5. FP14-do
   6. FP15
   7. FP20
   8. QP6-solution in HW6
   9. QP1-solution in HW1*
   10. QP17-solution in HW1*
   11. QP43-solution in HW2*
2. work and energy,
   1. FP15-do
   2. FP20
   3. QP3–solution in HW3
   4. QP4–solution in HW3
3. energy conservation,
   1. FP2
   2. FP14
   3. FP20
4. momentum,
   1. FP2
   2. FP14
5. rigid rotations, -emphasis~
   1. FP7
   2. FP8-solution in HW7
   3. FP14
   4. FP16-do
   5. FP23-do
6. angular momentum,
   1. FP16
7. harmonic motion,
   1. FP5-solution in HW7
   2. FP10-solution in HW6
   3. FP11-solution in HW8
   4. FP13
8. resonance,
   1. FP5-solution in HW7
9. gravity,
   1. FP12-do-solution in HW9
   2. FP18-do-solution in HW9
   3. FP20-do
10. Kepler orbits,
    1. FP4-do-solution in HW9
    2. FP12-do-solution in HW9
    3. FP18-do-solution in HW9
    4. FP20-do
11. electric fields and potentials & Gauss’s Law,
    1. Purcell Ch. 1, 2, 3
       1. 1.8,1.14,1.16,1.19,1.26,1.29,1.33
       2. 2.8,2.19,2.20,2.27,2.29,2.30
       3. 2.14,2.16,3.1,3.3,3.4,3.8
12. capacitance,
    1. Purcell Ch. 3.5-3.8
       1. 3.10,3.11,3.24
13. inductance,
    1. Purcell Ch. 7.4-7.10
       1. 7.17,7.19
14. magnetic fields,
    1. Purcell Ch. 6.1-6.2
       1. 6.1,6.8,6.10,6.12,6.13,6.14,6.16
15. Faraday’s law,
    1. Purcell Ch. 7.1-7.3
       1. 7.1,7.3,7.4,7.7,7.9,7.14,7.22
16. AC and DC circuits, and
    1. AC in Purcell Ch. 8.1-8.2
       1. 8.4,8.5,8.7
    2. DC in Purcell Ch. 4.7-4.11
       1. 4.4,4.7,4.16,4.18,4.19,4.22,4.32
17. special relativity.
    1. Purcell Ch 5, Appendix A
       1. 5.1,5.8,5.9,5.14,5.16,5.17
    2. David Hogg’s notes

>< Purcell and problems posted http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tmu/ph1a/problems.htm

.-.

So far today worked on FP1 and FP2 😦 got the delta KE wrong in FP2 because I was careless…will rework another time to be safe!

Will start on Purcell when I get home. Working on REU essays now. (~11:45pm)

Seventeenth Day of Spring Semester 2012…

Spent the night at a friend’s dorm for convenience. Woke up around 10:30 and then did Ring Theory from 11:00-2:00, roughly. Ate lunch and sat around from 2:30-3:30, then headed to library to take care of some work. ~5:20 now, did about an hour and a half of QFT so far, but taking a break for now. I’m making some progress forward, but I spent quite a while looking at some older things. The older things are better now though 😀 so that’s good. I wasted some time in the library looking for books on functional analysis, so I might look over one of them in a bit. Change of topic now though. I think I’ll start working on Analysis at 5:30 for a half an hour, then maybe sets for a half an hour @.@…. ~6…I lied, whoops. Some time wasted on physicsforums asking questions. heading to building where my analysis class is. ~7:25 reading about Topology of the Real line (6.8)…haven’t spent a ton of time on it yet though. On 6.8.4 now

So little accomplished

Sixteenth Day of Spring Semester 2012

Half an hour spent on Apostol for Caltech Math time…the whole no Galois Theory today fucked me up bad >:[ Pretty chill material, left something for myself to prove. Think I proved it in workplace, will take a look at it later I suppose?

Covered quite a bit of Alt4.20, want to be able to re-write the proof still now that I understand it a bit better…there are some parts that were not hard that I did NOT understand the first time through .-.
I’ve read Alt 6 through 6.7 or so, but I need to go back and prove some things/re-read some examples probably before moving on.
There really IS a lot more to topics in sets than I thought, some of this stuff takes a while to digest after reading and re-reading ><…progress is good though. A total of another hour was what I just did, so that’s good….

~11 Ate dinner, got my jacket back, got brownies…exercised for an hour too. Onto Caltech Physics prep then definitely QFT.

~11:20 **Problem 50 was legit*** SO OP did the problem  55 in REA physics no problem. Jokes. Moving on >:] ch. 3, Kinematics XDD …I feel like I can skip this, but that would be cheap.  *Problem 71 had a semi legit approach. *86 is a very straight forward approach as well. *Problem 91 says show…they should have just plugged and demonstrated… I’ll call it an hour now and then worry about finishing the last ten minutes later.

~12:27Still need to:

QFT

GR

Galois Theory

(technically I need another half an hour of Caltech Math preparation…)

Taking a break (god knows why)..

~2am I ate and did college/research application stuff for a while .-. working on Galois Theory now. . .

~3am An hour of Galois Theory done @.@ done with Chapter 14 now…but I’m definitely going to need to review before presenting 😦

~3:30 Finished the reading I needed to do for Caltech Physics preparation.. on page 101 now 😛 Dynamics~

 

Fifteenth Day of Spring Semester 2012

~4pm

I got in at 11 and did an hour of GR…that was kind of fail, but I know now that I’m going to have to take my time with some of it and review some of the tensor arithmetic etc. etc.

Meet with two professors about summer research locations and I got some feedback…should be helpful

Ate lunch from 1-2,

Set theory from 2:30 to 3

Did Apostol from 3-4 now I’m here. I had exercising scheduled, but I have no shorts .-. so that’s fail.  Updating fitocracy and livestrong, will be thinking of something to do instead shortly.

~5 starting up again on sets and then going onto Analysis .-.

~5:45 read the complex number part of the Analysis book, did not attempt any of the exercises by hand but did a few in my head.

~6:30 total of about an hour on Sets and Analysis, so I’m at about 1.5 hours today. Starting class today.

~2am So I worked on Galois for about 50~ minutes and I plan to round off an hour with some reading, but that was a while back. I also had an hour of time exercising, a while eating dinner (mostly spent eating free-ish food) and a huge portion of time was spent on organizing applications. As of now, I’ve yet to prepare to go to sleep and I have yet to do any work on GR(eh whatevs) and have yet to do any work on preparing for the Caltech physics exam ^^;…oops? I might do a half an hour of Caltech Physics preparation and then sleep somewhere close to three, over all…not an unproductive day though.

 

Fourteenth Day of Spring Semester 2012

Kind of died and wasted some time the past few days. It wasn’t that I did *nothing* . . it was just really close to nothing. Finished a series that ended inconclusively, but decided not to follow up in print form, no time for that.

Had Sets today and it was a little more interesting than last week. We talked about some interesting things like set equivalence and the axiom of choice. That class should be picking up pretty quickly.

I’m not technically in all my classes yet .-. so we’ll see how tomorrow goes…also, trying out a new schedule for myself and we’ll also see how that plays out tomorrow haha…not sure if I can do it ^^;

Also, working out my deadlines for my applications of various types and the respective essays @.@

~10pm, just finished an hour and fifteen minutes of QFT (Ryder) and I covered from page 245  (top) to page 249 (bottom). . .so not bad. Some stuff I didn’t really like in there though ….I need to check that if something has for instance, an eigenvalue of zero, there’s no inverse operator. Not good with my linear operators. Also need to check the transition from the variation of the electromagnetic tensor => the quadratic Lagrangian term. Going to ignore a lot of the Fourier transform and commutation things for now, but will ask later tonight I suppose. Will probably work on Ring Theory after this, for a while, and then GR?

~10:50 did thirty minutes of Rings and finished my assigned problem and took some notes @.@ shockingly slow progress. . .but it felt alright.

~11:30, after talking and working on the schedule I think I have it worked out, in general? We’ll see. Another half hour of Rings for now…

~12am. . .finished another half an hour of Rings, the material is not bad so far. On page 253, started on 249 tonight but I also did the problem I needed to. Some interesting examples…anyway, onto GR.

~1am…finished an hour of GR and got to page 45 (72 on pdf) from page 30. . .not bad, though I slightly glazed over some of it. .-. Ended with Stress Energy Tensor. . .this review material is taking far too long.

at 2 I’m sleeping, so I think I’ll get ready for tomorrow. ..

~1:45 I made lunch for two, put out clothes for tomorrow…don’t think anything eventful will happen between now and sleep.

Ninth Day of Spring Semester 2012. . .

Alright, so I’m starting a bit earlier today (~7:00am) and before I start I’m going to get some music going and check physicsforums before starting. XD nothing there…music then go~

~7:15 starting now~

~8pm now….so 45 of Ryder done, I’m on page 222 (only 20 pages from the finish!)  But after I finish this (assuming I do) there’s still a mess of other things to do .-. until then…laundry and food for a bit~

Alright so I need to finish the ~20 pages of material .-. thinking I’ll just do *most* of it and meet another time for the tail end and begin 7 for next week. I’m going to get through 7 (or most of it) this coming week >=[ I’ve decided it.

Also need to look at GR material for maybe an hour and talk to him about starting, and not really start or something x.X something like that.

Tomorrow afternoon will look over maths, I need to read ch. 13 of Gallian at some point before noon though (it’s like integral domains or something basic like that) for Galois. . .

I would like to read some REA physics problems and maybe work on Apostol some .-. ha.

~8:30 starting again on Ryder for another half an hour.

~9pm and I’m on page 226 ;O woo for skipping when the author tells you to! left a note for myself to fill that stuff back in another time though >,<‘ Not entirely satisfied with my ability to throw a unitary matrix inside of an integral. . .and then absorb it into a functional derivative… ? So another half an hour down

~9:30 another half an hour (ish) done but I’m like .-.  anyways, I got to page 227…? Well I guess I read to the end but I need to finish the notes on it. . . .

~9:45 Intending to do about 15 minutes of work to finish the section

~10pm 😀 done with section 6.8 and I’m on page 228 (progress?) have lots of questions, but the material has been read and (a little) thought over. so that’s another 15 minutes on Ryder. . .taking a break now to waste a little bit of time ><‘

~11pm Starting reading Weinberg Gr…

~12pm, reading Weinberg and got caught up on a step or two in SR (ouch .-.) and asked a q on physicsforums, we’ll see how that goes got from page 25 to page 29 in text, page 57 of the pdf.

～1:45 did another 45 minutes of Ryder in the correct direction .-. on page 230 and lost….moving to sec. 6.10 for the remainder of this hour =|

~2am added another 15 minutes of Ryder and went from bottom of page 236 to middle of 238. I suppose that’s not awful progress, I have a feeling I could finish this section by itself fairly quickly.

15 minutes spent tutoring .-. kid disconnected when I tried explaining how exponential fractions work…whoops?