Homework

Homework problems are taken from a larger collection of problems. Although you only have to hand in the problems listed below, you are encouraged to do the other problems as well and to discuss them with other students, in lecture, after lecture, or during the office hours.

You are allowed to discuss the homework problems with others. However, you should write up the homework by yourself and acknowledge all sources for each problem separately. Acknowledging all sources is essential in all of your scientific work, so it is good to start this habit now. It is fine to indicate the type of input you received, e.g., "discussions with X", "worked together with Y", or "was alerted to this point by Z". Although it is uncommon in a scientific publication to write explicitly that you worked all by yourself, for this course please indicate explicitly if there are no sources to acknowledge.

You can find the cumulative problem sets here (pdf).

Homework will be due on Thursdays in class. Homework assignments will be posted on the course website at least one week before the due date. (They will also be announced in class.) Corrections or clarifications to the assigned problems will be posted on the course website as soon as I find out about them.

Thursday, January 31: 2.1, 2.5, 2.7, 2.9.
Thursday, February 7: 2.4, 3.2, 3.4.
Tuesday, February 12: 4.4
Thursday, February 21: 5.1, 5.2, 5.5
Thursday, March 6: 6.1, 6.3, 6.6
Thursday, March 13: 7.1, 7.2
Thursday, April 3: 8.3, 8.6
Thursday, April 10: 8.10, 8.11, 8.12
Thursday, April 17: 8.14
Thursday, April 24: 9.2, 9.4, 9.8
Thursday, May 1: 9.9, 9.10, 9.15