Monthly Archives: April 2014

I thought my Real Analysis exam was going to be the hardest one, but it turned out to be probably the easiest exam I have ever written in my entire undergrad. Several questions just asked for definitions or statements of … Continue reading →

I was bored, so I decided to LaTeX up the cheat sheet I brought to my PHY450 (relativistic electrodynamics) exam. It wasn’t actually cheating, of course; we were permitted to bring in a two-sided exam aid sheet. I originally used … Continue reading →

I learned electrodynamics, like most other undergraduate students of my generation, in SI units. They seemed like the natural choice, because we use SI units for everything else. But then I took PHY450, “Relativistic Electrodynamics”, where we use cgs-Gaussian units. … Continue reading →