Assignment and collection: Homework is assigned weekly on this web page. Problems are from Schroeder unless otherwise stated. Problems will usually concern the material covered in lectures and recitations up to and including the Monday prior to hand-in Friday. The solutions will be posted here immediately here after that class, so late submissions cannot be accepted. If you can't make the deadline, an alternative arrangement can be made if and only if you contact me by email beforehand to explain your situation. You must turn in your own solutions. Egregious plagiarism (eg, copying from the solutions manuals) will be noted and you may be penalized.

Grading: Homework will be graded by a TA. Graded homework will be left on the filing cabinets near my office. The homework will normally be marked out of 10. Each week, some credit will be given for a reasonable attempt at all the questions, while selected questions will be graded in detail. Not all of your answers will be carefully graded. The purpose of the homework is to guide you in studying the material; it is not a test in its own right.

It is very important to write math carefully. Although we will be gentler in grading at first, you should expect to lose marks, on homework and exams, for such things as not distinguishing between scalars and vectors, and for not making it clear whether an integral is over surface or volume. Thus, equating a scalar to a vector, or equating quantities with different dimensions, is a no-no.

Bonus questions: There will sometimes be extra advanced questions on the homework. I will give a bonus point if you hand in an excellent solution of one.