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Jan. 14th, 2006 03:44 pmI'm back at Swat. I drove back this afternoon through what was at times very heavy rain, but fortunately the weather had lifted somewhat by the time my mom and I arrived at ML.
I got up to campus to find that my copy of Ashcroft & Mermin had arrived. I had found an inexpensive international student edition online and decided to go for it... the paper's rather thin and some of the figures could be clearer, but at least it's not the weighty tome a new American hardcover edition would have been. According to both John and Carl, this is what we would be using if solid state were being taught as a senior seminar at Swat and everyone in the seminar would have had upper-level quantum and stat mech. The book I actually need for the Haverford solid state class, Livingston's Electronic Properties of Engineering Materials, still has not arrived although it should have by now. If it's not there by Monday or Tuesday I may need to poke the seller. At any rate, for the first time in a very long time, I do not have physics reading/homework before the semester starts! I really hope to get a lot out of this course -- if I end up at Cambridge next year, some familiarity with the basic principles of condensed matter physics would be useful, and it's an area I'm definitely contemplating for grad school.
Tomorrow I need to return a volume of Mozart piano sonatas that has been recalled. I also need to make photocopies from, and then return, an interlibrary loan volume from West Virginia that was due on the 13th. What I got this for is Petschek's original writeup for his theory of reconnection. His was, I believe, the first model to be able to account for fast reconnection, which Sweet-Parker could not. Petschek's theory involves shock waves as a mechanism... I need to read this paper and some other stuff to be able to compare it to Sweet-Parker, which to my understanding is steady state. At any rate, I need to get back to work on my thesis or it will come at me with a vengeance.
The bound volume (containing various conference proceedings) also has some early 60's papers on people in space. Specifically, it has the proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on the Peaceful uses of Space, April 29-May 1, 1964. From a historical perspective, this could make for some very interesting reading. Anyone (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ricerurouni?) interested in this should get ahold of me before the volume goes back to West Virginia and I pay up whatever overdue fine I've incurred.
Opera chorus rehearsal in a few minutes... shows are this weekend, Friday night and Sunday night.
I got up to campus to find that my copy of Ashcroft & Mermin had arrived. I had found an inexpensive international student edition online and decided to go for it... the paper's rather thin and some of the figures could be clearer, but at least it's not the weighty tome a new American hardcover edition would have been. According to both John and Carl, this is what we would be using if solid state were being taught as a senior seminar at Swat and everyone in the seminar would have had upper-level quantum and stat mech. The book I actually need for the Haverford solid state class, Livingston's Electronic Properties of Engineering Materials, still has not arrived although it should have by now. If it's not there by Monday or Tuesday I may need to poke the seller. At any rate, for the first time in a very long time, I do not have physics reading/homework before the semester starts! I really hope to get a lot out of this course -- if I end up at Cambridge next year, some familiarity with the basic principles of condensed matter physics would be useful, and it's an area I'm definitely contemplating for grad school.
Tomorrow I need to return a volume of Mozart piano sonatas that has been recalled. I also need to make photocopies from, and then return, an interlibrary loan volume from West Virginia that was due on the 13th. What I got this for is Petschek's original writeup for his theory of reconnection. His was, I believe, the first model to be able to account for fast reconnection, which Sweet-Parker could not. Petschek's theory involves shock waves as a mechanism... I need to read this paper and some other stuff to be able to compare it to Sweet-Parker, which to my understanding is steady state. At any rate, I need to get back to work on my thesis or it will come at me with a vengeance.
The bound volume (containing various conference proceedings) also has some early 60's papers on people in space. Specifically, it has the proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on the Peaceful uses of Space, April 29-May 1, 1964. From a historical perspective, this could make for some very interesting reading. Anyone (
ricerurouni?) interested in this should get ahold of me before the volume goes back to West Virginia and I pay up whatever overdue fine I've incurred.Opera chorus rehearsal in a few minutes... shows are this weekend, Friday night and Sunday night.
