Final announcement

Hi everyone,

It was a privilege and pleasure to teach you this semester. I hope you got what you came for and had fun learning physics with the other students in our class. People generally did well on the homeworks, and a good fraction of the class engaged in the optional problems on HW2 and HW3. As for the Final Exam, you all did extremely well, earning an A+ on that component. All work received so far has been graded; final marks will be submitted in about a week once a remaining student delay has been resolved. You may request your unofficial grade from me by email before I submit, but please be aware that nothing is final until it is official. Please feel free to ask for advice/mentoring at any time in future. Most of all: GOOD LUCK with your future studies! :-)

Best wishes,
Your professor Amanda Peet.

Prof. Peet (earlier version)

P.S.: if you have a marked-up copy of the lecture notes with typos indicated (e.g. in red), it would be very helpful if I could borrow your copy to correct the mistakes in my notes. If you prefer, you may email me an itemized list by page number with careful instructions for corrections.

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Final Exam

Logistics

  • The Final Exam is open book and will be held during 9am-5pm on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th April 2013. All Final Exam solutions are due by 5:00PM on Tuesday 16th April. Late solutions will not be accepted.
  • You must turn in your Final Exams via email as PDF scans of your handwritten solutions. (I do not want to see LaTeX because that could be authored by anyone.) Ensure that your handwriting is legible and clear. Do not use pencil unless it is 2B or darker; I prefer pen as it is easier to read. Crossouts are fine as long as they are clearly delineated.
  • Day 1 of the Final Exam is to be carried out in your own office(/home), individually (i.e., no collaboration allowed). Each of you must write up a complete solution for your particular assigned Feynman diagram. I encourage you to hand in your Day 1 writeup on the Monday as soon as you have finished it.
  • Day 2 of the Final Exam will be held in MP307. You will work together as a 12-person team to renormalize the Feynman diagrams needed for the one-loop QCD β-function. Each student must contribute significantly to the Day 2 team writeup. Be fair about dividing up the work.
  • If you have questions about the exam, you can ask me directly. For most of the Monday and Tuesday I will be in my office MP1118. During lunchtimes I will be within 5-10 minutes of my office by bicycle with my alive cellphone on my belt. Call (416)561-0579 to summon me.

Grading Scheme

  • You MUST explain your reasoning.
  • You will be graded only on what you can communicate in writing in your solutions (your professor is not a telepath!). Err on the side of showing too many steps, not too few.
  • You may use colour in your solutions to help organize algebra, etc. (I am not colourblind.)

Feynman Diagram Assignments

  1. Lukas+Derek: gluon self-energy with 2 gluons in the loop
  2. David: gluon self-energy with 1 gluon in the loop
  3. Watse+Thomas: gluon self-energy with ghosts in the loop
  4. Ashley+Aaron: gluon self-energy with quarks in the loop
  5. Simon: fermion self-energy
  6. Scott+Ian: vertex correction with two gluons and one fermion in the loop
  7. Ciaran+Peter: vertex correction with two fermions and one gluon in the loop

finalexam.assignments

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Evaluations reminder

Hi everyone,

The university has asked me to remind you all to please complete your online evaluations for this course by the deadline of tomorrow Tuesday April 9th, if you have not already done so.

Evaluations are very important to improving the quality of education at UofT. Just a few minutes of your time will give UofT and your professor useful feedback. Constructive suggestions for improvement and identification of what worked really well tend to be particularly useful, but all types of feedback are invited.

With best wishes,
Prof. P.   :)

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HW2 grade distribution

HW2 histogram

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Homework 4

Hi everyone,

Homework 4 is now available. It will be due on Thursday 4th April. I will not accept homeworks turned in later than Thursday 11th April.

Cheers,
Prof. P.

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HW1 grade distribution

All of these grades are likely to fall in the A- to A+ range once scaled and added to the other items at the end of term. (P.S.: I only ever scale raw marks UP, never down!)

 

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Homework 3

Hi guys,

It’s time for Homework 3. Please note that you are expected to do problems 1-3. Doing problem 4 is voluntary, because some of you may not be interested in supersymmetry. For those who are interested, problem 4 is an introduction to a vast literature. I hope you all find the problem set educational.

Cheers,
Prof. P.

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Final Exam is on April 15/16

Hi everyone,

The final exam dates have been finalized. They are Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th April. The first day is individual calculations and the second day is the team calculation. Allow for 9am-5pm each day (you will not need the whole amount).

Cheers,
Prof. P.

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Make-up lecture Mon 11 Mar 6-8pm

Hi everyone,

As agreed in class today, we will hold a two-hour make-up lecture (to substitute for last week when I was sick in bed) on Monday 11th March from 6-8pm. It will be in our usual classroom MP1115.

I will set Homework 3 on Thursday. Remind me if I forget: it’s all ready!

Cheers,
Prof. P.

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Illness-based grading delay

Hi everyone,

First, my deepest apologies for missing class last Thursday. I was mortified to be so sick that I couldn’t wake up for an 11am class! Thanks to Ashley for checking on me by cellphone: it was exactly the right thing to do.

Two days earlier I was diagnosed with a viral infection in my dominant eye, after noticing double vision. It was treated with antibiotics but took a week to dissipate and was rather unpleasant. Not being able to read messed up all my plans for Reading Week. In particular, I was not able to clear any of the grading that I had planned. Then on Saturday I came down with a nasty cold which has confined me to bed for nearly four days. Ugh. Damn viruses.

Now that I can finally read again, I can write the third homework assignment which I owe you by Thursday. I will also work to get HW1 and HW2 graded ASAP!

See you in class on Thursday. If I am still showing symptoms like coughing, I will wear a mask to avoid transmission of the virus.

Cheers,
Prof. Peet.

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