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A personal work log written by Phil (initialed PhL, dated 3.26.05 in the header) that summarizes what he studied or wrote each month. It tracks textbooks worked through, such as Watson, Levitt, Goldstein, Schiff, Bjorken-Drell, Stakgold, Lai and Buck. It also records his own documents on the toroidal bowl, tensors, frames, Galois theory, lines and wedges, plus life interruptions.
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Physics Work Flow (monthly summaries) PhL 3.26.05
Red shows (1) name of book being started (or resumed) at that time; (2) a side topic that I worked on, usually something in the math world.
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Sept-Oct 2006 ~ 2 yr Thomson Maestro/APEX gig ends, review Campbell
Nov-Dec 2006 Start Watson, have roof adventure
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Feb-Mar 2007 Watson Cell Biology Ch 7-9 (and Rome readings)
Apr-July 2007 Watson 9-24 and finish it, a peek at Reif
Aug-Sept 2007 Start MS with Weiner book then start McAlpine MS book
Oct-Dec 2007 Continue McAlpine but stop before "main drug" Ch18 , start Levitt on NMR
Summary of 2007 by numbered month
1 Thomson VMIX short gig revisit
2-3 Watson Cell Biology Ch 7-9 (and Rome readings)
4-7 Watson 9-24 and finish Watson, a peek at Reif
8-9 start MS with Weiner book then start McAlpine MS book
10-12 continue McAlpine but stop before "main drug" Ch18 , start Levitt on NMR
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Jan 2008 all Levitt
Feb 2008 pause Levitt at Ch 13, tax time, then resume McAlpine MS
Mar 2008 finish McAlpine, read all of Minegar then some papers
Apr 2008 Finish Levitt
May 2008 Goldstein Ch 1-3
June 2008 Goldstein Ch 3-4
July 2008 Goldstein Ch 4-9
August 2008 finish Goldstein (Ch 9-11), start Mandl then BDI Ch 1-4
Sept 2008 M&M curvilinear, Bjorken Drell I 4-7, Lorentz Group digression
Oct 2008 resume BDI Ch 7-8
Nov 2008 BDI Ch 8-10, ran into pion phase shifts, switch to Schiff Ch 5
Dec 2008 Schiff Ch 1-5, Bateman CHGF, Messiah Ch 10, 95% Saxon, Schiff Ch 6-7
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Jan 2009 SSPT: Schiff Ch 8, Saxon, Messiah, fin Stakgold Ch 2, Messiah Kato
Feb 2009 SSPT: finish Messiah Kato, angular momentum digress, Schiff Ch 8 WKB
Mar 2009 Schiff Ch 8 WKB; TDPT: Schiff Ch 8, Saxon, own, start Stakgold Ch 3
Apr 2009 Stakgold Chap 1, review Ch 2&3, then do Chap 4
May 2009 finish Stakgold vol I and just start vol II
June 2009 Stakgold Chapter 5
July 2009 Stakgold finish Chap 5, start into Chap 6 (potential theory)
Aug 2009 Stakgold Chap 6, hold at conformal mapping and read 3 Chaps Ahlfors.
Sept 2009 Ahlfors meta notes, then back to Stakgold Chapter 6
Oct 2009 Stakgold Chapter 6: finish chapter, meta and meta-meta docs, do exercises
Nov 2009 Parse Kelvin, digress into curvilinears in general + ellipsoidals + oblate spheroidals
Dec 2009 Smythe and Morse & Feshbach readings on advanced electrostatics
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Jan 2010 Smythe readings, try his method on Oblate Green's
Feb 2010 all spent doing Oblate Bloid and Legendre stuff
Mar 2010 cylindricals, ring and disk, Legendre properties
April 2010 iris and disk attempts
May 2010 toroidals, 1/R expansions, and the Big Jackson Hint
June 2010 Smythe Problem 38 finally gets solved (in plane iris Green's Function)
July 2010 Analysis of the Charged Bowl; realized the simpler disk→disk inversion method.
Final iris/disk Green results. Toroidals, atoms doc, parallel plates, Sneddon!
Aug 2010 Sneddon meta notes, conical functions, Cartesians, 1/R expansions
Sept 2010 House painting; review of past work, writing overviews relating to bowl things
Oct 2010 House painting: overviews for spheroidal and ellipsoidal worlds; reading Hobson;
learn conical coordinates;
Nov 2010 finish Hobson, a Lamé look at WW, 3D SL, then Moon & Spencer, disk/iris overviews
electric field line drawing Maple program; major updates to Maple User's Guide
Dec 2010 gaga
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Jan 2011 2/3 of this month on 2D integral EV problem, Jim, Shankar, Price; 1/3 toroidal bowl
Feb 2011 Entire month spend fleshing out the Toroidal Bowl paper.
Mar 2011 publish Bowl doc on website, review all of Stakgold then start Chapter 7
Apr 2011 Stakgold Chapter 7 heat part
May 2011 Stakgold Chapter 7 wave part, start Helmholtz part
June 2011 Aruba and other things, no work done
July 2011 Stakgold Chapter 7 Helmholtz and Weiner-Hopf
Aug 2011 Stakgold Chapter 7, then digress into Stackel separation doc
Sept 2011 Tensor Doc
Oct 2011 Tensor Doc
Nov 2011 Tensor Doc
Dec 2011 Stakgold: errata published and finish Chapter 7
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Jan 2012 finish Stak final exam, review Goldstein and M&F, start Lai Ch 1-3
Feb 2012 Lai Ch 3-4, tensor doc updates
Mar 2012 Lai Ch 4-5, tensor doc updates
Apr 2012 Lai Ch 5, tensor doc updates
May 2012 Lai Ch 5, start Ng machine learning online course
June 2012 Lai finish Ch 5 and Ch 6, start Ch 7, wrap up Ng course
July 2012 write frames doc after G Rule appears in Lai
Aug 2012 write frames doc, Lee / Cod visit
Sept 2012 write frames doc, Lee / Cod visit, finish Lai Ch 7, start Ch 8
Oct 2012 more tensor doc and frames doc, finish Lai Ch 8 (last), send errata to Lai
Nov 2012 astro doc
Dec 2012 Cod trip then finish astro doc
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Jan 2013 finish astro doc and start Galois doc
Feb 2013 finish Galois doc
Mar 2013 spectral doc
Apr 2013 spectral doc
May 2013 finish spectral doc
June 2013 start scrambler doc, pause for Galois update
July 2013 finish Galois update, resume scrambler doc
Aug 2013 repairs to spectral doc, then resume and finish scrambler doc
Sept 2013 start lines doc
Oct 2013 lines doc
Nov 2013 lines doc
Dec 2013 lines doc
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Jan 2014 lines doc
Feb 2014 lines doc and bipolar doc and first release
Mar 2014 lines doc and radial Hall
Apr 2014 lines doc and eddy currents
May 2014 lines doc and Zs averaging
June 2014 lines doc
July 2014 lines doc
Aug 2014 lines doc and second release
Sept 2014 lines doc
Oct 2014 lines doc and third release
Nov 2014 Black PC activated, Alta retired, Easy shipped out
Dec 2014 Cosmology 101 and the blackbody problem → Schiff → Lagrange Doc
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Jan 2015 Buck restart after 40+ years, start AFIB docs
Feb 2015 finish AFIB Docs, update 4 other docs, resume Buck
Mar 2015 update Bipolar Doc, start Researchgate
Apr 2015 major update Tensor Doc
May 2015 Buck handoff to Lagrange Doc on extrema
June 2015 finish Lagrange Doc, resume Buck
July 2015 Buck handoff to Sjamaar on differential forms
Aug 2015 finish Sjamaar
Sept 2015 start Wedge Doc
Oct 2015 Hawaii and resume Wedge Doc
Nov 2015 continue Wedge Doc
Dec 2015 switch to a lengthy Bowl Doc update due to an email
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Jan 2016 finish Bowl Doc update, start wedge doc
Feb 2016 Wedge Doc
Mar 2016 Wedge Doc
Apr 2016 Wedge Doc
May 2016 Wedge Doc
June 2016 Wedge Doc
July 2016 nada
Aug 2016 nada
Sept 2016 new Lagrange doc / Goldstein Ch 2
Oct 2016 new Lagrange doc
Nov 2016 Euler doc
Dec 2016 new frames doc / Goldstein Ch 3,4
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Jan 2017 new frames doc
Feb 2017 new frames doc
Mar 2017 new frames doc
Apr 2017 new frames doc
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