Monday
9:00-10:15 am Grade exams from last week.
10:15-10:30 am Prepare for lecture
10:30-11:35 am Lecture about magnetic field of current loop, in-class activity on field of solenoid
11:35-12:45 pm Gasp, pant, eat lunch.
12:45-2:45 pm Tweak up apparatus for laser spectroscopy of rubidium lab
3:00-5:00 pm Test and set up lab on finding Earth’s magnetic field
5:30 pm Go home and collapse.
Tuesday
9:00-10:00 am Run errands (bank, drugstore, etc.)
10:00-11:00 am Tweak up rubidium spectroscopy lab, fix balky laser
11:00-11:45 am Meet with student about last week’s lab.
12:00-12:30 pm Lunch with other faculty
12:50-1:45 pm Deal with various crises in email
1:55-2:30 pm Lecture about rubidium hyperfine structure
2:30-5:00 pm Lab on laser spectroscopy of rubidium
evening Write lecture for Wednesday
Wednesday
9:00-10:30 am Polish lecture for 10:30 class, download electronic lab reports
10:30-11:30 am Widly discursive lecture about magnetic dipoles, atoms, permanent magnets.
11:30-12:30 pm Eat lunch, deal with email crises.
12:30-2:45 pm Grade electronic lab reports (13 of 16)
3:00-4:10 pm Department meeting
4:15-4:45 pm Informational meeting about Watson Fellowship program, agree to be on Watson committee
5:00-6:00 pm Assist with student housing lottery
6:30-8:30 pm SPS showing of Absolute Zero, plus dinner and discussion
Thursday
8:00-8:30 am Bike to work
8:30-9:00 pm Reconstruct lab on measuring Earth’s magnetic field
9:00-10:45 am Lab on measuring Earth’s magnetic field
10:45-12:30 pm Check on balky laser for rubdium spectroscopy lab, grade last electronic lab reports
12:40-1:50 pm Lunchtime colloquium about rubber
1:55-4:30 pm Lab on laser spectroscopy of rubidium
5:00-5:30 pm Bike home.
evening Write lecture for Friday
Friday
9:00-10:30 am Review, prep lecture
10:30-11:35 am Lecture about electric circuits
11:45-1:30 pm Pick-up basketball
1:30-5:00 pm Grade papers, write Monday’s lecture, answer questions about labs and homeowork
5:00-6:00 pm Faculty Social Hour
Weekend SWEET, SWEET FREEDOM
On Wednesdays, you give a lecture in Polish?
Sorry, I can never resist that particular heteronym.
You are ripping right along in that course. You do E and then B and only later get around to circuits?
What class is the laser spectroscopy lab for? That is a really nice touch for a modern or QM class. What does the equipment cost for that?
Say, when do you do your blog posts? That nice one on quantum computing surely took up more than just the “email crises” time. I assume it’s during your downtime at Chateau Steelypips. Once Futurebaby pops out, I expect that the frequency of such posts will (understandably) diminish. I just want to say thanks for that fine post and other physics posts; I’ve learned a great deal.