Class to go over Homework Solutions

By popular demand, I will be holding a class to go over the solution sets for the two assignments, or at least as much of it as I can fit in 2 hours. This will take place on Monday of Week 0 (April 20th) from 3-5pm in DHSR3 in Dartington House.

See you there!

Solution Set 2 posted

I have posted the solutions to the second problem sheet.

The TA has informed me that only 3 students submitted solutions. This is very disappointing. He also told me that many people haven't even bothered to pick up their marked solutions to the first sheet. That is also rather disappointing.

Thus far, only three people have expressed any interest in a problem session. Hopefully, interest in such a class will prove a little bit wider than that. You can e-mail me or post a comment here to let me know if you are interested in attending such a class.

Solution Set 1 posted

I have posted the solutions to the first exercise sheet.

Note: Thomas Woolley (the TA) has mention that when asked to show things with delta functions that many people used the 'definition' of it being infinite at one point and 0 elsewhere. The whole point of doing distributions is that that is not good enough, so consider yourself warned that doing something like that for exam solutions is not going to result in a lot of points. As we have discussed in lectures, the definition of things like delta functions is based on distributions, and I will expect your answers to reflect that.

Solution Set 2 posted

I have posted solution set 2. I tried to add explanations for various notational items and remove as many typos as I could, but if there are any issues remaining, please bring them to my attention ASAP (and, in particular, {\it before} the week 0 review class for this sheet) so that I can update the document appropriately. You can either post these here or send them to me by e-mail.

I will pick up the submitted problem sheets tomorrow and will mark them in the next couple of days. I'll let you know when they are available.

Update to Solution Sheet 1

I made a small update to problem (2a) in the solution sheet 1. Namely, it now includes a precise statement of weak convergence, as I think that will help you understand the solution better. (Weak convergence means that it converges in inner product for all test functions. In the context of this course, this can be expressed in integral form. The solution set shows both of these.)

Solution Sheet 1 posted

The solution sheet for the first problem sheet has been posted. Only 4 people submitted their work on this sheet. That's not a particularly optimal way to get potentially very useful feedback.

I am still awaiting more feedback for when to have the extra class to go over the big picture a bit and also to spend some time on the first homework sheet (though we won't have time to go over everything). Four people have expressed opinions about that. I will wait a little bit more time for others to indicate when they're available, and then I will figure out a day and time from this input.