Course evaluation and optional tute

I forgot to get you to fill out the course evaluation. Sorry.
Could we do that at 1pm today in the interaction room as part of the optional tutorial?
Those who come I will make it worthwhile....

Tutorial today at 2pm

this will be open office hours
I will be available in the interaction room to answer questions about lectures, past tutorial and exam questions, your papers for presentations, ...
you might also try answering the problems for chapter 33 and 34 of ashcroft and mermin.

Assignment 5 - due Monday May 30

You can get the latest assignment here.

In tomorrow's tutorial I suggest we do more practice questions. I have uploaded past exam papers from 2005 and 2007 that we can work on, but feel free to bring any other questions that you need help with.

Optional problem solving session on thursdays at noon

For the next five weeks at thursday I will be in the interaction room from noon-1pm to help you with any problems you want to work through.

Optional extra tutorial

Some students have asked for extra feedback and advice on passing the course.
Tomorrow at 1pm I will be available in the interaction room. If you wish to work through tutorial problems and/or past exam questions, and get feedback I will be available then. If it is popular enough I will do this every week, at a mutually agreeable time.

Lecture slides on electron-electron interactions

Here is are the draft slides for the next few lectures.
At the tutorial on wednesday I will work through the answers to the mid-semester exam.

Tutorial solutions

Tute 1
Tute 2
Tute 3

Wednesday's Tutorial

This is just a reminder that during tomorrow's tutorial (now at noon) we will be looking at the "Bloch" model of "Solid State Simulations".

Please bring with you :

• A laptop with the software installed
• A copy of the "Bloch" chapter from "Simulations for Solid State Physics". You can download it here if you haven't already done so.

Tutorial week 4

As was requested last week, tomorrows tutorial will be based on Solid State Simulations. Please make sure you bring a laptop to the tutorial with a working version of the software. Trying some of the Assignment questions beforehand would be a good idea too.

Tutorial week 3

Before tomorrow's tutorial (wed. 2pm) try and do question 2 on tute 1 and question 3 on tute 2.

Tutorial questions

Here are some tutorial questions that we may look at during the semester. Try and do them by yourself and I will then give help as needed to do them.
Some of these questions have been exam questions in the past.