Physics 387N: Relativity Theory II: Course News

Monday, April 21, 3:30 pm

Here is the preliminary schedule for in-class presentations of term projects: Please plan for a 30 minute presentation plus 5 minutes for questions. Groups may interchange speaking times by mutual agreement. Please inform me of any such re-schedulings.

Monday, March 16, 2:30 pm

Two typos in the Project 3 handout have been corrected: 
a) Missing $dr^2$ in equation (2)
b) Incorrect definition of $t^n$ in the 
   text following equation (37)

Friday, March 13, 3:30 am

The Software Notes (on-line resources) for Project 3 are now essentially complete.

Thursday, March 12, 6:00 pm

Modulo correction of typos etc., the on-line handout for Project 3 is now complete. I'm still working on assembling the on-line resources, and will let you know when they are in place.

Wednesday, March 11, 10:00 pm

A preliminary version of the handout for Project 3 is now available. The project specifcation is complete, but some supplementary material on differencing techniques needs to be added. Also, I am still preparing the on-line resources which are referred to in the handout.

Thursday, March 5, 11:00 pm

Note that the parameter-setting script I mentioned in class on March 3rd is called Setpar, with usage 
  % Setpar
  usage: Setpar file parameter value

       Sets 'parameter' in 'file' to 'value'.  Assumes 'file' contains
       a string of one of the following forms:

       parameter := old value
       parameter  = old value
 
       'file' backed up to 'file.O'
I have another script called setpar which does the same sort of task on certain fixed-format parameter files, but which doesn't work on RNPL-style parameter files. I apologize for any confusion this has caused.

Tuesday, March 3, 3:00 pm

Project 2 is now due Tuesday, March 10, 12:30 pm

Tuesday, March 3, 10:30 am

Group home directories have been moved to 
   /d/feynman/usr/people
This should ease the disk crunch for the time being, and you can also still use the directories on 
   /d/newton/usr3/people
which I set up last evening.

Monday, March 2, 10:20 pm

It has come to my attention that you're having problams with disk space on einstein:/usr2. I have created directories 
   /d/newton/usr3/people/p387g[12345]
which you can use.

Wednesday, February 18, 10:45 pm

The complete handout for Project 2 is now available.

Tuesday, February 17, 11:45 am

Each group now has a Web home page, physically located at 
   ~p387g[12345]/public_html/index.html
and having a Web address 
   http://wwwrel.ph.utexas.edu/~p387g[12345]
(where [12345] means one of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). These pages are accessible via the Group Pages link on the course home page. Use your group's public_html directory for material which is to be published on the Web, starting with Project 2. Note that in order to make such material world-readable, the system administrator has restored the permissions on all group home directories to make them world readable. For groups which had previously hidden their home directories, all sub-directories have been so hidden.

Please do not change the permissions on your group home directory.

Tuesday, February 17, 11:45 am

The handout for the first part of Project 2 is now available.

Thursday, January 29, 12:00 pm

The handout for Project 1 is now available.

Wednesday, January 28, 1:30 pm

Accounts 
   p387g1
   p387g2
   p387g3
   p387g4
   p387g5
for use by Groups 1 through 5 respectively have been created on the Center for Relativity machines. Initial passwords will be divulged in class.

Tuesday, January 27, 12:00 pm

Here are the provisional groups for homework assignments and term projects. Please direct any (strenuous) objections to the instructor. I suggest that each group meet as soon as possible to exchange schedules and begin discussing ideas for term projects.