Drills & Reading Quizzes
General policy
- Drills must be completed before your problem session on Friday. They are worth 4 points, and you get full credit for completing the drill.
- Reading Quizzes must be completed by 8:00 AM on the Tuesday they are due. (Do them Monday evening before going to bed!) They are worth up to 4 points each, and your score depends on how many out of 5 you get correct: 4 points for a 5/5 or 4/5 (i.e., you can get full points even if you get one wrong), 3 points for 3/5, 2 points for 2/5, 1 point for 1/5 and 0 points for 0/5.
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If there are ever any problems with the drills or reading quizzes, please send an email to Katharina Vollmayr-Lee.
Current Reading Quizzes and Drills
- No more drills or reading quizzes
Previous Reading Quizzes and Drills
Unit 1: Electricity & Magnetism
- Friday, January 23 -- Drill Set #1: Electric Fields
- Tuesday, January 27 -- Reading Quiz #1: Gauss' Law
- Friday, January 30 -- Drill Set #2: Electrical potential and current
- Tuesday, February 3 -- Reading quiz #2: Motion in magnetic fields
- Friday, February 6 -- Drill Set #3: Magnetic Fields
Unit 2: Induction and Waves
- Tuesday, February 17 --- Reading Quiz #3: Faraday's Law of Induction
- Friday, February 20 -- Drill Set #4: Traveling Waves
- Tuesday, February 24 --- Reading Quiz #4: Phasors and Standing Waves
- Friday, February 27 --- Drill Set #5: Interference
- Tuesday, March 3 --- Reading Quiz #5: Diffraction and Diffraction Gratings
- Friday, March 6 --- Drill Set #6: Photons and Wave-Particle Duality
Unit 3: Quantum Mechanics
- Tuesday, March 24 --- Reading Quiz #6: Waves, Probability, and Uncertainty
- Friday, March 27 --- Drill Set #7: Quantized Energies and Spectra
- Tuesday, March 31 --- Reading Quiz #7: Quantum States and Spin
- Friday, April 3 --- Drill Set #8: Quantum Statistics and Applications
- Tuesday, April 7 --- Reading Quiz #8: Atoms and semiconductors
- Friday, April 10 --- Drill Set #9: Quantum Entanglement
Unit 4: Particle Physics and Cosmology
- Tuesday, April 21 --- Reading Quiz #9: Particles and Conservation Laws
- Friday, April 24 -- Drill Set #10: Fundamental forces and interactions
- Tuesday, April 28 --- Reading Quiz #10: Particle Interactions II
- Friday, May 1 - Drill Set #11: Reaction Diagrams, Decays, and Cosmology