Click here
for short answers to the questions in assignment #5
(except for the ones form the textbook!)
I will give back assignment #5 in class on Tuesday, April
7th (last day of classes!)
Please pick up your unclaimed assignments in my office before the final examination!
Extra office hours before the Final Exam: Monday, April
13th 14:00 to 17:00 ; Thursday, April 16th 14:00 to 17:00 ;
Friday, April 17th 14:00 to 16:00
"M" denotes and MSAF. Please let me know of any discrepancies before the end of the term!
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Assignment
#5 was due in class on Tuesday,
March 31st, 2015. Please
hand it to me at the beginning of the lecture period. For the
bonus question, you should figure out what omega is. It is a
function of all the parameters.
(of course, you can hand in the Assignment to me anytime before the due date, preferably during my office hours)
There is an ongoing debate about the "merit" of NHST (Null Hypothesis Signifi cance Testing). Some people are rather critical about the ubiquitous use of NHST and p-values:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/449153
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/methods/statsig/stathyp.htm
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/10/44
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00525.x/full
Here are the links about the Weibull distribution that I showed you in class on Friday:
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue148/hottopics148.htm
http://www.wind-power-program.com/wind_statistics.htm
and click here for my
slides on linear regression that I showed you on Thursday (this
is from the Arts&Sci course that I taught last year!)
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Test
#2 was on Tuesday,
March 24th, 7:00
pm to 8:00 pm in BSB 137.
The last three remaining tutorials for the rest of the term are cancelled. I did the tutorial yesterday (and on February 23rd as well), but for the rest of the term, I will be in my office Mondays from 3:30 - 4:20 (the tutorial period), beyond my regular office hours, if you need any help. The TA quit (the second person to do that for this course this term!)
Click here for short answers to Assignment #4 (Let me know if I made any mistakes!)
Click here for short answers to Assignment #3 (Let me know if I made any mistakes!)
Your new T.A. is Sarah Abu Ramadan and her email address is aburamsr@mcmaster.caCorrection to Question 1 in Assignment #3: Replace y by x in
the description of the vertical strip! (I
have corrected it now)
Assignment
#3 was due in class on Thursday, February 26th,
2015 (please
hand it to me at the beginning of the
lecture period)
Click here for the
proof of the asymptotic expansions of the Airy function (with
the correct constants) that I messed up on the board today (Feb.
12th)
Click here for some
basic facts about the Laplace transform
Here is a link about the
Smith chart (unit disk with hyperbolic geometry!) as
used by microwaves engineers: http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/smith-chart-basics
Here is an educational webpage from NASA about the Joukowski conformal map: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/map.html
and here about using Matlab to play with conformal maps: http://www.mathworks.com/help/images/examples/exploring-a-conformal-mapping.html
TEST #1 was held on Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 from 19:00 to 20:00 in BSB 137
Please bring your student ID card
Click here for short answers to Assignment #2 (Let me know if I made any mistakes!)
Click here for some beautiful formulas related to the zeta function that one could die for!
"More optional reading for blended experential
learning"
Here is an interesting non-technical talk about prime numbers, the Riemann hypothesis and theoretical physics:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/GeomPhysPrimes.pdf
and here is a provocative article in Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-universe-made-of-math-excerpt
For a more technical paper about the Riemann zeta function and its application in physics see, for rxample:Topics in Complex Analysis, Contour integration, Elementary
Probability and Statistics.
Course Objective:
We will cover the material from Chapters 24, 25, 30, 31 from
the prescribed text book. For a weekly update on what is covered
in the course see the course
syllabus
Students are responsible for
reading the relevant material from the textbook
and/or the reference books and/or any other resources
(freely available on the internet)
and
also for working out most of the
exercises in the book
on their own
(known as self-directed blended
experiential learning) in
preparation for the lectures.
You are expected to exhibit honesty
and use ethical behaviour in all aspects of the learning process.
Academic credentials you earn are rooted in principles of honesty
and academic integrity. Academic dishonesty is to knowingly act or
fail to act in a way that results or could result in unearned
academic credit or advantage. This behaviour can result in serious
consequences, e.g. the grade of zero on an assignment, loss of
credit with a notation on the transcript (notation reads: Grade of
F assigned for academic dishonesty), and/or suspension or
expulsion from the university. It is your responsibility to
understand what constitutes academic dishonesty. For information
on the various types of academic dishonesty please refer to the
Academic Integrity Policy, located at http://www.mcmaster.ca/academicintegrity
The following illustrates
only three forms of academic dishonesty:
1. Plagiarism,
e.g. the submission of work that is not one's own or for which
other credit has been obtained.
2. Improper
collaboration in group work.
3. Copying
or using unauthorized aids in tests and examinations.
When using the
MSAF, also report your absence to me (the course
instructor M. Min-Oo) within 2 working days by email
(minoo@mcmaster.ca) and contact me in person to learn
what relief may be granted for the work you have
missed, and relevant details such as revised
deadlines, or time and location of a make-up exam.
Please note that the MSAF may not be used for term
work worth 30% or more, nor can it be used for the
final examination.
Please refer to
http://academiccalendars.romcmaster.ca/content.php?catoid=7&navoid=559#Requests_for_Relief_for_Missed_Academic_Term_Work
and
https://www.mcmaster.ca/msaf/index.html
for
the exact rules.
Important
Notice:
The instructor and the university reserve the right to modify
or revise elements of the course during the term. The
university may change the dates and deadlines for any or all
courses in extreme circumstances. If either type of
modification or revision becomes necessary, reasonable notice
and communication with the students will be given with
explanation and the opportunity to comment on changes. It is
the responsibility of the student to check their McMaster
email and course websites weekly during the term and to note
any changes.
(the numbers are chapters and sections from the text book)
Week 1 (05/01 to
09/01): Review of Chapter 3 and 4, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3,
24.4, 24.5, 24.8
Week 3 (19/01 to
23/01): 24.12, 24.13, 25.3
Week 5 (02/02 to
06/02): 24.7, 25.1, 25.2
Week 8 (23/02 to
27/02): 25.6, 25.7, 25.8
Week 10 (09/03
to 13/03): 30.7,
30.8, 30.9, 30.10, 30.11
Week 12 (23/03
to 27/03): 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 31.4, 31.5
Week 14 (06/04
to 08/04) Review