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Lecture slides – Wed Sept 8 (more MOs)

Slides for today's lecture are located here.Several of you came back with excellent questions after lecture today and I want to share some of this material with the rest of the class…. Continue reading

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HW #1, Conference assignments, Study guide #2

I've been inundated with questions and comments about homework assignment #1, and requests for changes in conference assignments, so I wanted to bring you up to date on these and other items of interest…. Continue reading

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Office Hours (tent.) for Fall '09

40 of you responded to my Doodle poll and the results were really helpful. I am going to try out the following as office hours for this semester:Tues, 4-5:30* PM (look for me in the o chem lab as well… Continue reading

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Lecture slides – Fri Sept 4

Except for the computer troubles, I thought today's lecture went surprisingly well. Too bad that we didn't get through the entire set of slides, but I'll show them to you on Monday. Here is a copy of the slides from… Continue reading

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Vaux Swift Watch 2009

This has nothing to do with o chem, but watching 5000+ small birds fly into a chimney (they sleep there) is one of the most fascinating and FREE displays of urban wildlife you will ever see and it coincides with… Continue reading

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Where is tonight's LAB lecture?

As you know, our morning lectures have moved to the Psych auditorium.The Psych aud. is already committed to some other campus groups for Thursday evenings, so lab lectures will stay in Eliot 314, 6:10-7:00 Th.There is a llab lecture tonite… Continue reading

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Study Guide for chapter 1 is online

I posted the study guide for chapter 1 yesterday but forgot to tell anyone. Maybe you've seen it already? You can follow this link or the one on Study Guides page…. Continue reading

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Lecture slides – Wed Sept 2

You can download all of the slides (in color) from today's lecture here…. Continue reading

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Vote for Office Hours

I think it's totally impossible to find some office hours that will work for everyone. But I'm going to try and make myself as available as possible.Please tell me which of MY "free" hours are also YOUR "free" hours by… Continue reading

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Lecture Moves to Psych 105

It was incredibly crowded in Eliot 314 this morning. So, even though I love the room (it's where I started teaching back in 1989), the sunlight, the traffic sounds from Eliot circle, the difficulty of seeing the white boards from… Continue reading

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