Physics 141 Announcements

Mon Jan 8 08:00 PDT 2001

  • We will meet today in class at the scheduled time and will try to work out how to move the time of the lectures to minimize conflict.

    • Tue Jan 9 19:00 PDT 2001

  • We will meet on Wen Jan 10 at 11:15am at the regular time, with further discussions to remove the remaining time conflicts.

    • Tue Jan 29 19:00 PDT 2001

  • The shell script named uufiles which prepares the uuencoded ascii file of your homework directory is posted in labnote4 on the web now.

    • Thu February 1, 13:00 PDT 2001

  • A somewhat refined version of Homework Set II is posted on the home web page.

  • If you need to convert your Postscript document into PDF document format, there is a Linux command for it on the PHCOMP server. If you have a postscript file foo.ps in your current directory, you only need to type

    ps2pdf foo.ps foo.pdf

    and the executable program ps2pdf will produce in your current directory foo.pdf.

  • The binary file mpeg_play should be accessible now in the bin directory ~ph141w/bin. If you have an mpeg file foo.mpg in your current directory, the command

    ~ph141w/bin/mpeg_play -dither color foo.mpg

    should start the movie on the mpeg player.

    • Tue Feb 6 10:00 PDT 2001

  • The virial part of Homework Set II was deleted for simplification. The elimination of the virial part should make the solution less time consuming and easier.

    • Fri Feb 9 10:00 PDT 2001

  • The deadline for Homework Set II is extended to 2/14/01.

    • Sat March 3 22:00 PDT 2001

  • The Final Project and the related Homework Set 3 are posted now on the web home page.