Homework 1

Hi everyone,

Here is your first homework assignment. It is due in two weeks by email as a PDF file. The exact deadline is 11:10am on Monday 4th February. You may hand in up to one week late if you take the 4% per business day lateness penalty. Homeworks handed in more than one week late will not be graded.

Please note that you are required to show your working for all problems. Students who explain their reasoning always get better grades than students who gloss over important steps in their logic. If you are a math student taking this class for credit, I will still expect you to reason like a physicist. (I cannot grade problems differently for different students: you all get treated the same.)

Please also note that PDF is the only format I accept. If you handwrite your solutions, simply scan them in to PDF (ask at the Graduate Office if you don’t know how to do that on a Departmental photocopier). LaTeXed homeworks are not expected, but they do make reading your solutions easier. Learning to use LaTeX (or some other flavour of TeX) is to your advantage anyway.

Prof. Peet.