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Welcome (and a little note about homework)

Hi everyone!  Thanks to all those who have already posted up an introduction here.  For those who haven’t, please go ahead and do that.  It’s a way to help us all get to know one another before the classroom part begins.

 

Picture in the lab

Junior mad scientist at work: John Roe, age 12

By the way, you can upload images to the blog if you want to make your posts more exciting, as with this slightly embarrassing one from my British middle school.   The induction coil produced something like 200kV, I certainly should not have been playing around with it at all, let alone hooking it up to an old X-ray tube that I had salvaged from who knows where.  To upload and post an image, look for the “Add Media” button just above the post editor.

 

The first homework assignment for the course, Homework 0, has now been posted and your solutions are due in class on Friday.  This is about calculations with complex numbers and mappings.  MASS students have a wide range of backgrounds – that’s okay – but I expect that most of you will be able to work these problems straight away, even before we get started.  If you have questions about the homework, please raise them with Dong Chen in the Tuesday session, or ask me in office hours, or post on the blog.  Or ask one another: I encourage discussion among students, just so long as you acknowledge it when you come to turn in your work.

See you tomorrow!

John Roe