8.06  Quantum Physics III

final grades posted

Dear quanta,

Your final grades for the course, including letter grades, are now online.

The final exam turned out similar to the midterm in difficulty, with an average of 120/175 (note that due to an addition error, the total score was 175 - fortunately the only mistakes were on the title page!) and a std. dev of 30. (This is about 69% +- 17%.)

Thanks for making this a really fun class to teach! I feel privileged to have been able to teach you this semester and I hope you've enjoyed your time in the quantum world.

Best wishes for your future endeavors, be they quantum or classical.

-aram

Announced on 21 May 2015  7:03  p.m. by Aram Harrow

term paper grades

Dear 8.06,

You should have just received an email with your term paper "referee report" and grade. Please check that the grade you see on stellar is the same.

Your final grade will be 35% from the final, 15% from the midterm, 25% from the psets (of which the lowest is dropped) and 25% from the term paper. The A/B/C/D boundaries are not totally fixed but last year were around 80/70/60.

It's been a lot of fun reading your term papers and we hope to have the bound copies back tomorrow in time to return to you at the final exam.

aram

Announced on 17 May 2015  11:15  p.m. by Aram Harrow

time to evaluate 8.06

Dear 8.06,

Our thanks to the 58% of you who have so far filled out evaluations. To the rest of you, we would really like to hear your thoughts too! The link is here
http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation
and the deadline is tomorrow morning at 9am. So you should do it tonight! (Although you are hopefully also by now fully day-shifted.)

In other news, solutions to the practice final exam questions are now up. Your paper grades are nearly complete and will be out by tomorrow. Your pset grades should all be online. Please check now (if you haven't done this already) to make sure your online pset grades match the ones that have been returned to you. Please also let me know if you have any other questions or concerns going into the final.

-aram

Announced on 17 May 2015  9:48  p.m. by Aram Harrow

lecture notes updated

Dear 8.06,

Since there is no other reference to the de Haas-van Alphen effect, I've updated chapter 4 of the lecture notes to include it. The other topics with no lecture notes should be either in Griffiths of the Jaffe notes.

-aram

Announced on 16 May 2015  6:08  p.m. by Aram Harrow

Two hours office hour on Friday 11:00-12:00 and 1:00-2:00

Hi All,

I will host two separate office hour on Friday, 11:00-12:00 and 1:00-2:00.
You can pick up your past psets then.

Best,
Wenjie

Announced on 13 May 2015  9:39  a.m. by Wenjie Ji