Class announcements and responses to questions:
===============================================================================
|> Professor Arias:
|> I tried printing the notes on statistics and the line MIT was not on
|> the top of the front page.

Please try a different printer.  I have had much luck using the
printer "corfu" in 2-032.

                                  

                                     ,
                                  Tomas Arias, PhD
                                  Assistant Professor
                                  Department of Physics
                                  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                                  Cambridge, Massachusetts
                                  http://web.mit.edu/muchomas/www/home.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Prof. Arias,
|> 
|> I note that you listed as references on the course information packet a
|> book by French and Taylor and another by Eisberg and Resnick.  Are these
|> readings simply optional or are they important material for the course?  If
|> so, where should I obtain them?
|> 
|> Also, I am rather electronical-information oriented myself (see
|> -------------------------), but I never have been able to read course
|> material off the web.  My preference, if such information exists, is to
|> download all the files in Postscript form (using either lynx or Saving...
|> under Netscape) off the web and then print them all at once (a lot faster
|> and easier than using ghostview every time).  IS is probably against it,
|> but I think we pay enough money to deserve it.  It would help if you had
|> all Postscript files referenced from a single page, and named them each a
|> different name.  Thanks - you might want to include this information for
|> other students (for example, use of the lpr and lpq commands to send batch
|> jobs to printers).

Dear ---,

"French and Taylor" and "Eisberg and Resnick" are just other books on
QM at your level that you might like to try if you don't like the
official texts for the course.  They are on reserve in the reserve
reading room, and the Physics reading room has copies.  Also, many of
your upperclassmen friends probably have copies of these books.

I too am aware that many people prefer paper, which is why it is my
policy, at the bottom of the first html page of *each and every*
document on the 8.04 home page, you have access to a post-script
version!  Thanks for your input :^).  If you have any other
concerns/suggestions please feel free to let me know.


                                  

                                     ,
                                  Tomas Arias, PhD
                                  Assistant Professor
                                  Department of Physics
                                  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                                  Cambridge, Massachusetts
                                  http://web.mit.edu/muchomas/www/home.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------