Lectures
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 10:00-10:50, Regener
Hall Room 118.
Office hours
Instructor
Each day after class, Wednesday at 1:00-2:00 pm in
Physics (Lomas and Yale) room 1136, or by appointment.
Teaching assistant
The teaching assistant is Mr. Jui-Jen Wang (wangbtc@unm.edu).
He will be available on Tuesdays and Thursdays at
1:00-2:00 Physics (Lomas and Yale) room 131 for you
to discuss any homework grading issues you may have
(please send an email to arrange an
appoinment).
Grading
The grading in the course will be
based on your performance in homework assignments, two
midterm exams, and a final exam. The contribution to
the final grade is as follows:
1. Homework (40%)
Weekly homework assignments will consist of problems
that must be solved using MATLAB code. Each problem
will be worth of (N+M) points:
- The N points will be given based on whether the code produces the
correct result or not. The grader will not attempt
to fix code in any way.
- The M points will be given for well-documented code.
I encourage students to study
together and learn from each other. However, all
homework must be created in its entirety by each
student. Evidence of copied homework will result in
all involved students being dropped from the class.
Assignments are due before 24:00 on the due date. No
late assignments will be accepted.
The grader must be able to easily run your homework
and therefore there must not be any confusion between
your submissions and that from others. Homework
submissions must be in the format: "LastName_HW1.m".
If the solution consists of multiple files because of
multiple problems or functions, then name files
"LastName_HW1_Problem1.m" or
"LastName_HW1_FuncName.m".
Submission Procedure: Login to your
learn.unm.edu account. Find the current homework
assignment for Physics 290. Upload each *.m file as an
separate file. Let me know if you have problems. As a
LAST resort if you are having problems, you may email
me your files with subject line '290 Homework X'.
2. Quizzes (40%)
We will have four quizzes throughout the semester. No
make-up quizzes will be offered.
3. Final Exam (20%)
Final Exam will consist of an individual project.
Details will be discussed in class.
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Final project instructions
Tentative Schedule
Installing MATLAB
1) Create an account at mathworks.com using your UNM
email address.
2) Download and install MATLAB 2014b or later. We will
not need or use most toolboxes.
3) At the point where it asks you to validate, you need
to sign in with your mathworks account and provide an
activation key. The key is given in the pdf linked to
this page under
the MATLAB section.
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sexual misconduct and sexual violence made to a
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campus policy regarding sexual misconduct, see:
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