physics work flow

Physics Work Flow 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. _______________________________________________________________________________ Sept-Oct 2006 ~ 2 yr Thomson Maestro/APEX gig ends, review Campbell Nov-Dec 2006 Start Watson, have roof adventure _______________________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________________ Jan 2008 all Levitt 6 finish Levitt monster appendix on Phase Cycling 7-8 genuine research days on NMR stuff 9 two attic physics boxes down to basement 14 worked on my own density matrix notes 15 review spin stuff 16 start meta review of entire Levitt book 17 meta reviewing Chaps 8 and 9 18-19 meta review Chap 10 20 meta review Chaps 11 & 12 21 meta review Chaps 13 22 review COSY stuff 23 wrote up all support math for Levitt 24 finish separate doc on COSY 25 finish COSY, start INADEQUATE 26 Phil's Z-matrix Method for doing spin 28 finish "phil theory of coherence flow.doc" 29 update meta review 30 upgrade to Office 2003, Visio 2003, Onenote screen clips begin 31 Levitt on magnetization transfer and INEPT Feb 2008 pause Levitt at Ch 13, tax time, then resume McAlpine MS 1 reading in Levitt Chap 13 on AX experiments 2 derived secular form of dipole-dipole coupling Hamiltonian 3 finish Levitt Chapter 13, pause Levitt with more chapters to go 5 stop physics for a while, RMC amended returns & taxes 11 rare AFIB attack, another about a month later 13 resume McAlpine on Multiple Sclerosis, so physics now on hold Mar 2008 finish McAlpine, read all of Minegar then some papers 1-30 finish McAlpine, read all of Minegar's 2007 MS book Apr 2008 Finish Levitt 1-15 resume and finish Levitt May 2008 Goldstein Ch 1-3 5 start reading Goldstein Mechanics 6 finish Goldstein Chap 1 12 after gap, start Goldstein Variation Chapter 2 13 have started my own MS document, but did not get far. 14 more Goldstein on variation 15 finish Goldstein Chap 2; doing Spanish at this time as well, and Merin work 30 reading Goldstein Chap 3 on central forces, after a long gap 31 Goldstein on Kepler's Laws June 2008 Goldstein Ch 3-4 4 finish Goldstein Chap 3 on Central Forces 9 Goldstein on Rotational Kinematics, after a gap 10 finish Chap 4 on Rotational Kinematics 12 Chew Torrey visit, lots of physics talk, then Cape Cod age 60 July 2008 Goldstein Ch 4-9 9 a short Thomson gig 14 reviewed first 3 chapters of Goldstein, start meta review of them 15-16 review Goldstein Chap 4, meta notes through this chapter now 17 start Goldstein Chap 5 on rotation stuff, the ellipsoid 18 finish Chap 5 19 finish meta notes on Chap 5 20 general all-books review of rigid body motion, Lagrange points 21 start Goldstein Relativity chapter 6 23 finish relativity, do meta there, start Hamiltonian chapter 7 24 did meta notes on Hamiltonian chapter, start Canonical Transform chapter 8 27 finish Canonical Transforms chapter and did its meta review 28 start Chapter 9, doing Action-Angle variables (Charlotte/Gina move in) 30 action angle on Kepler problems 31 finish Chapter 9 August 2008 finish Goldstein (Ch 9-11), start Mandl then BDI Ch 1-4 1 review of Surface Geometry stuff, re Goldstein wavefronts 2 more on Surface Geometry 3 Goldstein on The Big Parallel optics/eikonal to quantum/classical mechanics 4 meta review of Goldstein Chap 9 on Hamilton-Jacobi theory 5 fully done with Chap 9 6 start Goldstein Chap 10 on small oscillations, did the Pendulum 7 monster session on Jacobi elliptic integrals, wrote it up, all math 8 did my own plane pendulum write up, did an actual experiment with one 9 Hamilton-Jacobi on plane pendulum 10 did quantum solution to plane pendulum; started math/physics histomap 11 resumed Goldstein Chap 10 oscillations, lots of Maple work 13-14 wrote a huge new Maple User Guide 15-16 oscillations of linear molecule 17 finish Goldstein Chapter 10 including meta 18 start Chap 11 on continuous systems 19 finish Chap 11 and the entire Goldstein book 20 finished meta review of entire Goldstein, all done! 21 start Mandl on Quantum Field Theory, read first 6 chapters in two days 22 start Bjorken Drell RQM first 9 pages, need this stuff for Mandl 23 BD covariance proof bog down, all Dirac electron theory 24 finish Chap 2, start BD Chap 3 26 battle BD projection operators 27 finish BD Chap 3 on Dirac free particle solutions 28 BD Chap 4 on FW transformation 29 Confused about angular momentum while reading BD, off to M&M Chap 5 30 M&M readings on tensor stuff Sept 2008 M&M curvilinear, BDI 4-7, Lorentz Group digression 1 M&M covariance proof of Va,b object 2 doing well in M&M Chap 5 on curvilinear coordinates 3-4 relearning meaning of divergence and curl etc in general coordinates 5 did Curl start to finish 6-10 continuing on curvilinear coordinates work 12 second Thomson gig 15 back to BD wave packets and Klein Paradox, but messed up on FW 16 read BD on the H atom, just a summary 17 BD Chap 5 on Hole Theory 18 meta notes on Chap 5, start into Chap 6 on Propagators 19-20 more on Chap 6 propagators 21 getting ready for Coulomb Scattering, review Mott and Goldstein 22 did all details of Mott scattering in Ch 7 23-24 back and fill on BD stuff 25 studied Moore's notes on the Lorentz Group 27 did work on the RVR-1 = R-1V problem 28-29 continue on the above problem which I called QM Algebra 30 more of the same, confusion boosts being unitary or not Oct 2008 resume BDI Ch 7-8 1-2 more cleanup on the QM algebra problem 3-4 wrote my own Lorentz Group document based on Moore notes 5-8 learning about representations of the Lorentz Group with spinors 9 dovetail back into BD in Chapter 7, re u(p,s) LG computation 10 finished my u(p,s) spinor calculation 11 doing BD positron scattering, endless new questions arise 12 BD on p-e scattering and the Moller potential 13 BD section 7.5 on higher order corrections 15 BD on Compton scattering and Klein Nishina, then Buffy Torrey trip 21 BD and Thomson scattering 23 meta notes on Compton 24 BD on Moller Scattering 25 BD on Bhabha Scattering 26 finished BD Chapter 7, a Big Milestone for me 27 started into BD Chap 8 on higher order graphs 28 doing BD vacuum polarization n ad 27 MHz Uehling 30 at page 169 doing vertex correction, ran into a large Feynman integral Nov 2008 BDI Ch 8-10, ran into pion phase shifts, switch to Schiff Ch 5 1-2 anomalous magnetic moment in vertex correction 3 finished BD chapter 8, doing meta on that chapter 4 start BD Klein-Gordon chapter 9, all new to me 5-7 applying FW to the KG problem, then Cape Cod trip 17 finished BD Chap 9 on Klein-Gordon theory, only 1 chapter left 19 started BD chapter 10 on pion-nucleon scattering 21 doing isospin in π-N scattering 24 mention of "phase shifts" in π-N sends me off to Schiff collision theory 25 reading Schiff Chap 5 to page 117 26 learning about the δl phase shifts 27 wrote a note on "diagonalization" and angular momentum and QM 28-29 read about complex potentials in Schiff Chap 5, optical theorems etc Dec 2008 Schiff Ch 1-5, Bateman CHGF, Messiah Ch 10, 95% Saxon, Schiff Ch 6-7 1 paused in Chap 5, backed up and read Schiff Chaps 1+2 2 read Schiff Chap 3, start Chap 4, bog down on HO 3-4 read Schiff Chap 4 on the H atom treatment 5 studied parabolic coordinates for first time, finish Schiff Chap 4 5 wrote Schiff meta notes for Chaps 1-4 + some of 6 wrote Schiff meta notes Chap 5 up to Coulomb stuff 7 digression on Laplace's Method re the Messiah W1,2 Coulomb functions 8 learned the Messiah appendix on W1 and W2 via contours 9 reading Schiff Chap 5 on Coulomb scattering 11 derived Schiff 143 A, took all day 12 digression on ODE stuff like Frobenius method, re Coulomb ODE 13-14 read Bateman on the CHG functions, made connection to W1,2 15-16 learned connection to A&S section on Coulomb Wave Functions 17 resume reading Schiff Coulomb scattering section in Chap 5 18 tried and failed to roll my own solution of Coulomb in sphericals 19 separate study of Coulomb scattering in parabolics and why it is simple there 21 finish Schiff meta notes on Chap 5 including the Coulomb stuff 22 digress and reread the first entire half of Saxon from Hillis days 23 finished Saxon, skipping a few sections which I filled in much later 24 read Messiah Chap 10 on scattering theory 25 start into Schiff Chap 6 on Matrix Mechanics, with some old notes too 26 finish Schiff Chap 6 27 start into Schiff Chap 7 on Symmetry 28 start the "dynamical symmetry" part of Schiff Chap 7 29 learned about H atom's SO(4) symmetry and the LRL vector, first time ever 30 learned about SU(3) and the HO 31 finish Schiff Meta notes for Chapters 6 and 7. _______________________________________________________________________________ Jan 2009 SSPT: Schiff Ch 8, Saxon, Messiah, fin Stakgold Ch 2, Messiah Kato 1 Start into Schiff Chap 8, SSPT 3-5 Rolled my own Stationary State Perturbation Theory doc; Theorems A,B,C 6 Read Saxon's version of SSPT 8 Start into Messiah on SSPT, met Q0 and Q0a 10-19 resume dormant Stakgold Chap 2 on operators 11 make Venn diagram of all the Stakgold spaces 14 start Stakgold Chap 2 meta review 16 getting into Stakgold ∞ dim Hilbert Space theorems 18 finish Stakgold Chapter 2, took 7 full days 20-27 Started the Messiah Kato resolvent section on SSPT 28 Messiah meta notes on non-Kato stuff 29- Messiah Kato meta notes Feb 2009 SSPT: finish Messiah Kato, angular momentum digress, Schiff Ch 8 WKB -8 Kato meta notes 10 Messiah SSPT examples 11 Digression on spherical harmonics 12 LS and jj coupling Messiah examples 13 Wrote doc on "adding" angular momenta 14-16 Doc on 05/07/17, j addition, etc 26 resume back in Schiff Chap 8 after SSPT 27 read Schiff meta notes on Chaps 1-7 28- read Schiff on the WKB approximation Mar 2009 Schiff Ch 8 WKB; TDPT: Schiff Ch 8, Saxon, own, start Stakgold Ch 3 1-2 reading Schiff Ch 8 on WKB (cold day #1) 3-18 ongoing flu, could still work though 3-4 read Schiff on Time Dependent Perturbation Theory 5 finish Schiff Chap 8 6 write Schiff meta notes on TDPT 7 started Saxon on TDPT 9-10 finish Saxon TDPT, started to roll my own TDPT 11 finished roll my own TDPT doc 13-21 Stakgold: review Chap 2 meta, start and finish Chap 3 on integral equations 22-29 do Fredholm Theory from various sources; tax season 30 start Stakgold Chap 1 on Green's & Distributions & ODEs Apr 2009 Stakgold Chap 1, review Ch 2&3, then do Chap 4 1-17 do and finish Stakgold Chap 1 19-22 review meta notes for Stak Ch 2 and Ch 3, wrote Ch 3 meta-meta 23 start into Stakgold Chap 4 Spectrum of Diff Operators 24-30 continue Stakgold Chap 4 May 2009 finish Stakgold vol I and just start vol II 1-2 wrote Chap 4 meta then meta-meta notes, all done with Stakgold Volume I 6-16 Cod/Lee trip, then Susan/SPL/Balls/M&A Torrey trip 29-31 start Stak Vol II, chap 5, to p 14 June 2009 Stakgold Chapter 5 1-27 Stakgold to p 69, chap 5 July 2009 Stakgold finish Chap 5, start into Chap 6 (potential theory) 4-7 Stak chap 5 meta started 8 wrote "parts and greens.doc" after "attempts to prove p 40 greens" doc 9 update "integral theorems.doc" with theorems and derivations 10-14 finish Stakgold Chap 5 raw, meta, and meta meta notes. 15 start Stakgold Chap 6 16-31 continue Stak Chap 6 to page 130 Aug 2009 Stakgold Chap 6, hold at conformal mapping and read 3 Chaps Ahlfors. 1-9 continue Stak Chap 6 to p 149 10 did first-ever proofs of Divergence and Stokes theorems in Rn 11-12 reach conformal map part of Chap 6 p 164, and push the stack to Ahlfors 12-20 read first 3 chapters (100 dense pages) of Ahlfors "Complex Analysis". 21-31 NH/Cod trip Sept 2009 Ahlfors meta notes, then back to Stakgold Chapter 6 1-6 Ahlfors meta review; note Cantor and Axiom of Choice and Continuum Hypothesis 7-9 wrote "Projective and Fractional Linear Transformations.doc" 10-12 finish Ahlfors meta review doc 13 start Stak Chap 6 meta notes. 14-23 continue Stak Chap 6 meta to p 164 (conformal mapping Green's Function) 24-28 Exercise 6.35: Green's function for a 2D strip by infinite set of images (3 docs) 28 Wrote " theory of infinite products.doc" related to the image charge form. 29 finish Exercise 6.35 successfully, do other problems in this section of Chap 6. Oct 2009 Stakgold Chapter 6: finish chapter, meta and meta-meta docs, do exercises 2-5 Torrey trip: Merin & ladies & kids, Blairs, Romines 7 wrote "green's and change of coordinates" 8-10 resume Stak Chap 6 "physical applications" 11 wrote Legendre My Problem docs (series that don't exist) 12- 16 the 2D finite wire problem ("extruded strip") -- think 8th order curves 16-18 wrote "ellipses.doc" related to 2D wire equipotential surfaces being ellipses 20 wrote " divergence J and V.doc" comparing electric current to mass current etc 21 the above explains the fluid flow application of the Laplace equation 22 start end-of-chapter exercises, end of Stak Chap 6, p 191 23 did Exercise 6.47 related to 2D wire charge (error found in Schaum; Russian books) 24-25 start Chap 6 meta-meta review 26 resume Chap 6 meta review 28 finish both meta and meta-meta reviews of Chap 6. 29-31 Exercises 6.48, 6.50, start 6.51 31 am led back to the painful "half sphere problem". Nov 2009 Parse Kelvin, digress into curvilinears in general + ellipsoidals + oblate spheroidals 1 realize half-sphere paradox due to non-existent series (wrong!) 2 read Jackson on the method of inversion, Jim suggestion 3 wrote "conformal mapping applied to potential theory.doc" 5 inversion relates spherical cap problem and the disk problem 6 realize that I need the disk on-axis Green's function to do this 7 did oblate spheroidal coordinates using MF notation 8 learned about Kelvin's p-parameter's two meanings 9 parsing Kelvin's paper, eventually he agrees with MF 11 no grav force on mass inside thick similar ellipsoidal shell 12 ellipsoidal coordinates MF style 13-14 Maple finally plots the ellipsoidal coordinate surfaces 15 re-parse Kelvin, get happy (potential and charge of charged ellipsoid) 16 why do confocal ellipse and hyperbola intersect at right angles? 17-26 write "tensors and curvilinear coordinates.doc", the final solution 27 pop stack, write "3 potential of charged ellipsoid.doc" and META for same 28 pop stack, write "2 Oblate Spheroidal Coordinates and the Metal Disk Problem.doc" 29 wrote "5 Summary of Facts about Metal Objects.doc" 30 ran into the mystery of the 3D wire (needle), Crodt and Jackson and others. Dec 2009 Smythe and Morse & Feshbach readings on advanced electrostatics 1 updated this doc and annual timelines 3 start Smythe hole in plate problems 4 review of SL theory causing quantization of separation constants 5 wrote " Smythe hole in plate problems.doc" 7-14 Cod trip, prep do and recover. 15-19 read MF 50 page chunk on ODE's, pondering SL theory and quantization 20 wrote " an ODE essay on MF Section 5.2.doc", I give this a high rating (SCK) 21 did a bit on the M&F T functions; words zonal, sectorial, tesseral 22 completeness of SL problem solutions, aid from Courant and Hilbert 23 pondered orange-slice situation where m quantization is non integral 25 learned about Lame solutions 26 wrote " questions about Legendre functions.doc" and a meta version 28 got a new Maxima and plotted some Legendre functions 29 walk-through of Smythe Chapter 5, the Smythian Form Method 31 studied you see products of radicals in certain ODE solutions, then wrote " product form for Lame and Legendre solutions.doc" (ellipoidals) _______________________________________________________________ Jan 2010 Smythe readings, try his method on Oblate Green's 2-3 start Smythe Green's function of cone, learning the Smythian Form Method 4 apply this method to the sphere. 5 prep for oblates in order to follow Smythe into this area 6-7 read Smythe's solution of the Neumann problem for the oblate spheroid 8 did my own Smythe Form solution for Dirichlet problem of oblate spheroid 9 did Green's Function for oblate spheroid, Smythe Problem 85; pillbox stuff 10 wrote " gamma function page.doc"; PDF to DJVU converter found 11 wrote " the Smythe method for Green's Functions, cone examples.doc" and a meta version, summarizing all work done above in January. 13 wrote " Jackson method of inversion META.doc" (still thinking bowl) 15-17 pondering bowl problem as inversion of on-axis disk Green's function 18 wrote " cos(nx) over sqrt(a-bcosx).doc" about doing a particular integral obtained a PDF of 2007 GR7 table of integrals, learned history of same 19 pondered why charged disk problem is so difficult (Green Kelvin footsteps) 22 wrote " Power series and f(x) constant in a finite region.doc" math misc. because the charged disk was fighting me in spherical coordinates 25 wrote " Why spherical atoms don't work for origin on metal.doc" (disk) 26 more Green's Function for an oblate spheroid; started Legendre properties database wrote " properties of Legendre functions.doc" At this point, I had the oblate Green's, so I could take the on-axis disk limit. But it was still a messy double sum, so would not be useful in my inversion to get the charged bowl. 27 started Green's for oblate hyperboloid, looking for simple Smythe Problem 35 result 28-31 many difficulties encountered trying the Green's Bloid, it was a Maze of problems. Feb 2010 all spent doing Oblate Bloid and Legendre stuff 1-2 tried doing the Oblate Bloid with the non-cone method, it failed. 3 worked on Oblate Bloid using the cone method, potential comes out complex 4-6 constructed real atoms p and q to replace P and Q 7-8 wrote "those orbital things.doc", a distraction, for SKC ( a very long doc!) 9-10 wrote " oblate bloid with p and q attempt 2.doc" which is now obsoleted 11-12 wrote "study of (1-z)^a and related.doc" discussing cut and sheet confusions. 14 tried again on Oblate Bloid with the new real p and q functions 15-17 studied the cut structure of various kinds of Legendre functions 19 wrote "convergence for Bateman forms.doc" (plots for Legendre convergence) 21 found an error with my q function 23 learned how to see Maple's internal code for Legendre evaluation 24-25 Legendre function details 26-28 found out why my old P Q Oblate Bloid solution was wrong (besides being complex) Mar 2010 cylindricals, ring and disk, Legendre properties 1-6 break time: Ball's oven, Dave's printer, taxes, SQLite, exec log, Lee APL 7-8 review and wrap on the Oblate Bloid I had hoped this would give a simple answer for point charge in iris hole as per Smythe problem 35. Both simple answer and the bloid double sum answer are correct, but I cannot relate them. 9 pondered the electrostatics of rings, leads to intractable integral equations 10-13 looked at Jackson cylindrical and Bessel stuff, including the two related transforms 13 got hold of Bateman two ET volumes 14 reviewed Jackson's charged disc presentation 15-18 break time: refoam a speaker, Alta PS problem 19 Legendre Sturm-Liouville details figured out 20-23 break time: basement stereo, health care, MRL taxes, motion light 24-27 doing the Legendre properties doc. April 2010 iris and disk attempts 1-13 White Rim trip and other matters 14 reason why disk allows cylindrical but not spherical coordinates. 15 integral equation for the iris 16 integral equation for the disk, trying to solve it, cannot 18 more fiddling with ring Green's function problem 20 review of Fourier Transforms of Groups in Hermann book 21 find that there is no Green's for an infinitesimal ring! 22 Attempt #4 on the disk Green's 23 wrote up "the ∂" with good examples 24 attempt iris Green's using dual integral equations and Trantor 25 started "transforms.doc", a bit overdue, then more iris attempts 27-29 more iris Green's 30 tried iris Green's by the reduced 1D Green's method, no sale. May 2010 toroidals, 1/R expansions, and the Big Jackson Hint 1 first look at toroidals, hoping this would help on disk, ring, iris stuff 2 made connection between integral of 1/ and Qn-1/2(a/b) 3 read a PDF paper on doing the ring Dirichlet problem in toroidals. 3-5 wrote " A study of 1/R expansions in spherical coordinates.doc" 6-16 Cod/Lee trip 17-19 continued 1/R work, pondered "the Cape Cod idea" for expansions 22 wrote " A study of 1/R expansions in cylindrical coordinates.doc" 23-24 working in "transforms.doc" doing cleanup 25 wrote " A study of 1/R expansions in toroidal coordinates.doc" 26 noticed Jackson problem 2.10 hinting that you do Smythe 38 by inversion! This is a different inversion from charged bowl ↔ on-axis disk Green's. It is charged disk → bowl → iris Green's with charge in hole a la Problem 38. [ At this time, I did not think of the simpler single inversion disk → iris directly.] 26-31 Torrey trip with Kent and M&A all visiting the 457 at once. June 2010 Smythe Problem 38 finally gets solved (in plane iris Green's Function) 4 visitors gone, start on the inversion path to Smythe Problem 38. 5-14 massive double inversion effort finally derives the Smythe Problem 38 iris Green's σ 15 back and fill, also have the crude potential for the iris Green's (charge in hole) 19 still cannot do the iris integral equation, even knowing the right σ 20-21 obtained the potential for the iris Green's, and it gives the right charge 22 did Smythe Problem 39, taking Green's hole charge to a ring 23 got stopped cold by Smythe Problem 40, too bad, a bowl inversion thing. 24 learned about the Green's Reciprocity Rule, found big error in GR7 and emailed it off 24-26 wrote " Green's Functions using the Smythe Method META.doc" 27 reviewed Jackson's three chapters on electrostatics. 28 updated this physics flow doc from Dec 1, 2009, so did 7 months. 29-30 did Smythe Problem 40 and Problem 41, understood the Reciprocity Rule 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! 1-2 did Smythe Problem 42, now have capacitance of and σ on a charged bowl 3 wrote algebraic integrals.doc, realized disk-to-disk inversion possible, 4 more on Kirk Princeton pdf on the bowl 5 computed in-plane disk Green's function using disk to disk inversion 6 wrote up comparison of iris and disk Green's functions in the disk doc 7 wrote a new doc on the Jackson inversion formulas and methods, Chord Theorem 8 redid iris Green's using simpler disk to disk inversion method, agreed with double method 9 cleanup 11 some work on toriodal.doc, then tried doing bowl in toroidals, got close to Lebedev 12 ordered the Boeing table of Mehler integrals, also some in PBM 15 did atoms doc for all coordinate systems, appearance of "conical functions" 16-18 did Green's Function for parallel plates in Cartesians, help from a book 19 tried reading Canonical, was then motivated to go get Sneddon from Marriott, copy made 20-31 read Sneddon's book on dual integral equations etc, got the Polyanin handbook on IE's 27 copied the Boeing Report 246 Aug 2010 Sneddon meta notes, conical functions, Cartesians, 1/R expansions 3-10 read Sneddon Chap 4-8, return Sneddon (cracks), return with 4 integral equation books 13 cleared up "heat flow" doc 14-18 review of Sneddon, meta doc (dinner for 33 in back yard) 19 perused integral equation books 21 assemble data on conical functions; review sphericals 1/R expansions 22 more work in the Cartesians area; Cod trip 24-Sept 6 Sept 2010 House painting; review of past work, writing overviews relating to bowl things 8 writing overviews to existing docs 9-13 1/R expansions toroidal and cylindrical; then addition theorems 15 actually solved a Stakgold integral equation using Polyanin's book (the charged disk problem) 16-21 exterior 457 Club deck and paint maintenance, no math done 22-25 overviews related to "the half sphere problem", a historical one for me (Leg My Prob) 26-28 more overviews related to the bowl problem 29 more overviews: oblate spheroid; metal objects still not overviewed. Oct 2010 House painting: overviews for spheroidal and ellipsoidal worlds; reading Hobson; learn conical coordinates; 4 overview for spheroid Green's, other spheroidal overviews 7 start overviews in the ellipsoidals world, Kelvin, etc 14 start Hobson on ellipsoidals (a copied from library chapter) 15- 31 reading Hobson, side trips to elliptic functions doc, Lamé functions, 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 1-3 continue with Hobson, into the Niven theory now 7 show ellipsoidal normals are orthogonal, write conical coordinates doc 10 still reading Hobson, Maple does the Ynm in Cartesians 12 finish Hobson; then another review of W&W on Lamé functions 14 Maple metric tensor programs for different coordinate systems 15-16 did Hobson meta notes, then meta-meta notes and overview, more WW Lamé review 17 the Weierstrass p function and its Word symbol; start Moon and Spencer 18 the Matrix Rollup Theorem, Frobenius as done by M&S 21 ponder 3D Sturm-Liouville problems in general, Helmholtz in the sphere 22-24 review of the Moon and Spencer book, tried bisphericals 24 back to writing overviews, now for disk, iris, and inversion stuff, Smythe problems 26 Smythe problem overviews -- found I could no plot electric field lines after 40 years 27-30 got a Maple field line drawer going for the iris; massive editing of my Maple User Guide Dec 2010 review the Smythe Problems, Sneddon Book, electrostatics docs 2-9 write Smythe Problem Overviews and other electrostatics related Overviews 10-18 do Sneddon review with overviews, write Matrix support doc for dual equations. 19-31 Cod trip and recovery, no work done. Jan 2011 2/3 on the 2D integral EV problem, 1/3 on Toroidal Bowl 1-10 the 2D integral EV ( Sned motvt'd) (Jim, Shankar) Finish Sned review. 11-15 more on 2D EV and Lk=δ problem (Jim gets sol's) (R Price emails) 17-19 wrote integral/ODE comparison, wrapped all this up in a Sneddon subfolder 20-24 bowl toroidal: did the double-bowl, Ahlfors f= 25-31 bowl capacitance, "doing Mehler integrals" Feb 2011 The Charged Bowl in Toroidal Coordinates 1-27 "grew" the Kirk doc into the Toroidal Bowl Doc, lots of work. The major task of this month. made my own P and Q Maple functions did both bowl and toroid stuff, lots of Appendices, 60 pages found 2009 A&S; toroidal capacitance function, thin ring limit started the plucht website on rimrockinteractive.net appendices on: Kelvin, Smythe, Sneddon, Vinogradov PDF export graphics problems 27-28 resumed bowl reading in Canonical, making notes Mar 2011 Publish Toroidal Bowl Paper, Review Stak, Start Stak Chap 7 1-8 finalized the 60 page toroidal bowl paper, finally sent email to Kirk McDonald finished bowl readings in Canonical, all annotated. 9-21 review all of Stakgold Chapters 1-6 22-31 doing heat part of Stakgold Chapter 7 Apr 2011 Stakgold Chapter 7 all of heat part, start wave part 2-9 finish heat conduction part of Ch 7, do "heat exam" 10-12 Laplace Transforms, wrote a new separate Laplace Transform doc, 20p 13 clean up the Ex 7.16 world 15-17 review heat part of Ch 7, more on Ex 7.16 but gave up on it 18-20 doing wave part of Ch 7 21 Fourier Cosine doc transform clean up 22-23 Ex 7.16 problem was an illegal "order interchange", wrote order interchange doc 24-30 continue wave part May 2011 Stak Chap 7 continues 1 start meta review of Chap 7 3-13 Cod/Lee visit 14-19 recovery days, no physics work done 20-25 resume Chap 7 meta review 26 start Helmholtz section of Chap 7 27-31 Kent et all Mem Day Torrey trip June 2011 everything on hold 1-11 Aruba Trip 12-30 no physics work done, XP on Alta, SW radio, eneloops, basement depig July 2011 Stak Chap 7 continues 2-3 reading Chap 7 meta review prior to resuming Chap 7 4-10 resume new ground in Chapter 7, Helmholtz stuff, KL transform, knife edge 11-16 no physics work done 17 wrote Helmholtz meta notes 18 wrote Bessel doc, KL transform doc, Hankel transform doc 19 finish Helmholtz section of Chap 7 20 digression on "the physics of air" 21 found Stak's updated book on line 22 continue in Chap 7, plane wave, second wave midterm? 27 start Weiner-Hopf, defer mid-term 30-31 finish Chapter 7 text, start final exam Aug 2011 more Stak Chap 7, then digress into Stackel separation theory 1-6 start "second mid-term exam", another Bessel Function doc 7-10 Mellin Sine Transform doc 11 attempt to write general theory of 2D equation separation (the big segue) 12-30 wrote Stackel matrix doc Sept 2011 Tensor doc rewrite month #1 1 decided to "just update" my old tensor doc and put it on the web with the Stackel doc 2 Levi Civita stuff (after 8 year lapse), 3 problems with update: general theory missing, logic all wrong, area transform unknown 4-11 start writing a new Tensor doc to replace the old one 12-23 Cod/Lee trip 24- 27 divergence section done in tensor doc 29-30 Needles camping trip Bruce and Blairs Oct 2011 Tensor doc rewrite month #2 1-5 camping trip recovery 6-8 resume writing tensor doc, contravariant by definition 9-12 gave up on internal summary chapter, start we-removal 14-24 first draft is 120 pages, Jacobian problems, rewrite intro, check results 25-30 another rewrite of area volume length section, then "meaning of x'-space" issues, App C Nov 2011 Tensor doc rewrite month #3 1-5 we-removal, spell checks, add inverse transform stuff edit passes, 6 I think it is done (wrong), PDF production, Gwen Mac test is positive 7-19 is curl a vector issue, then tensor densities and App D and ε tensor, Levi sum rules 20-24 finally start looking at historical docs, 1900 bit year RLC, words contra and covariant 25 rewrite special relativity section, more edit passes, clean gradient, 191 pages and done 26-29 prepare Stackel for web site 30 redo website, removed Word docs, site now has just 4 PDFs' Dec 2011 Finish off Stakgold Chapter 7 4-7 Stakgold errata and email with same 8-11 resume tail end of Chap 7, meta notes 12-19 Cape Cod visit and 2 week cold begins 25-27 finish Ch 7 meta notes including Wiener-Hopf 28-31 Stakgold Final Exam problems done Jan 2012 Review Goldstein, M&F, then Lai Ch 1-Ch 3 1-3 finish Stakgold Final Exam, write Ch 7 meta meta notes, published Errata 6-n scan of M&F, both vol I and II 7-8 Goldstein on virtual displacements, review entire book, 15-17 start into Lai in PDF, all of Ch 1 done. 18 M&F dyadics 19-24 I find (v) in Lai is new to me, having trouble getting Lai results 25-26 put this in tensor doc at some initial location 28 Lai book arrives, was $7, now reading Ch 3 kinematics of strain Feb 2012 Lai Ch 3 - Ch 4, heavy tensor doc updates 1-2 polar decomposition theorem, Lai raw to p 105 3-8 wrapping up Ch 3, more effort on (v) stuff 9-10 tensor doc transpose, Appendix E (expansions) and F [(v)at that time, now G] 13 Word pagination problem 16 add section 5 (o) on continuum mechanics of tensor doc 17- start Lai Ch 4 on stress, ran into divT object 21-23 tensor doc Ch 8 is conflicting with Lai, doing rewrite 26 proofings and updates, handedness section 28 section 8 keeps getting upgraded, general areas now etc. Mar 2012 Lai Ch4 - Ch 5, tensor doc Appendices F, H, I 1-2 affine connection Appendix (was G, now F) 3 decision to split off the Appendices, TOC problem not yet understood 4-6 more affine appendix work 6 divT goes into Appendix H 7-8 Section 15 on covariant method 11 web update of both tensor docs (Σ=264p), Stackel doc and Maple doc 17 at Lai Ch4 p 179 19 squirmy integrals p 188, finish Lai Ch 4, start Ch 5 21-22 Lai p 211 elastic isotropic solids, Navier-Cauchy equations 24 vector Laplacian, errors in tensor doc Sec 15 got fixed 25 big covariant derivative theorem in tensor doc 29-31 wrote Appendix I on vector Laplacian Apr 2012 Plug along in Lai Ch 5, ongoing tensor doc changes and additions 1-8 Ch 5 p 224, then 231, then 247, then 264, Problem 5.71 9-10 long Section 7 (i) on transpose and matrix multiplication 11 solved the Word TOC mystery 14 Ch 5 to page 279 on plane stress problems 16 published tensor doc and user guide, my earliest retained version of tensor doc 17-28 Cod-Lee visit 29-30 nada May 2012 Continue Lai Ch 5 on elastic solids, start Ng course 1-4 nada 5 meta notes for Ch 5 6-13 Ch 5 to p 301 on indenters; starting Ng course 14 Ng Section 8 on neural nets 16 Lai start anisotropic elastic solids 18 writing up massive Ng notes, put on line on 20th 24-31 Torrey trip with Kent, Mem Day 2012 June 2012 Finish Lai Ch 5 and Ch 6, start Ch 7, wrap up Ng 2-10 finish Lai Ch 5; doing Ng every day 11-16 Ng meta notes, video #15 17 started promoting my Ng PDF in forum 19 Lai start Ch 6 on Newtonian fluids 24 Lai to p 385, Ng is over and calming down 27 Lai to p 401 28-30 Lai finish Ch 6, start Ch 7 on Transport Theorem July 2012 Write Frames Doc 1 frames confusion in Lai, G Rule in Goldstein bugaboo, start frames doc 2-31 writing frames doc ! Aug 2012 Continue writing Frames Doc 1-18 continue writing frames doc, it has a life of its own now. 20-31 Cod and Lee visit Sept 2012 More frames doc and tensor doc, fin Lai Ch 7, do most of Lai Ch 8 1-4 Cod recovery days 5-11 Foucault section of frames doc 12 web site update ten∂sor doc, frames doc 14 Lai review Ch 6, review Ch 7 then resume in Ch 7 16 finish Lai Ch 7 17-21 frames doc additions, fictitious torques 22-25 start Lai Ch 8 27 wrote "essay on covariance", tensor doc updates 28 tensor doc App K (formerly called J) on deformation tensors Oct 2012 tensor doc, finish Lai Ch 8, Lai errata sent to Lai, start astro doc 1-2 add mixed-bases expansions tensor doc App J 4-8 small Torrey fall visit 12-20 doing Appendix on (T) calculation and other tensor doc work 21 finish Ch 8 including meta notes; web re-release on tensor and frame docs 22-24 wrote Amazon short review (not submitted yet) and Lai errata, Lai responds! 24 frames doc update 26-31 start and work on astro doc (sun earth kinematics doc) Nov 2012 astro doc 1-19 insolation, sunrise azimuth, analemma, equation of time, Maple analemma, Crimea 20-26 overview and proofing, arctan appendix, Ukraine discrepancy Dec 2012 astro doc 1-13 Cod trip and recovery 14-31 Greek analemmas, section rewrites, AFIB hits Dec 23, figure index Jan 2013 finish astro doc and start Galois doc 1-8 film projection calculation, gallery, first PDF, proofing and done with astro doc 9-29 start Galois doc, vector space idea added, start cyclic codes, Maple code Feb 2013 finish Galois doc 1-4 Kent Judy visit 5-16 proofing Galois, PDF made, it is done. 17-31 Beth Mac book, RDT closure, taxes, Medicare research Mar 2013 spectral doc 1-11 start spectral doc, DFT repair 12-15 break in, metal plate, floaters, Jim black PC, Marg backup 16-31 correlation, spectral density, cleaup, appendices, Change/Hold, NRZI Apr 2013 spectral doc 1-13 right knee problem, White Rim, Grauer, Jon Guerts Moab 14-17 Fourier/Hilbert transform 18-30 Cod trip and recovery May 2013 finish spectral doc 1-5 term SH, MRL taxes 6-19 snags , proofing, summaries, done 20-22 Philips pension 23-31 Torrey trip, Kent visit, back problem, TIAA plan, retire spreadsheet June 2013 start scrambler doc, pause for Galois update 1-9 Medicare starts, new washer, Philips notary, passwords 10-29 start scrambler doc, redo drawings, Maple work, remainders 30 update to Galois doc starts July 2013 finish Galois update, resume scrambler doc 1-11 Galois update, CRC, App G (Fermat theorem, number theory) 12-31 resume scrambler doc, matrix stuff, MLS spectra, random variables, Jim dies Aug 2013 repairs to spectral doc, then resume and finish scrambler doc 1-9 back in spectral doc again for major repairs 10-16 Cod trip and recovery 17 resume and finish scrambler doc Sept 2013 start lines doc; this will consume 14 months = 61 weeks ≈ 1 year 1-12 start into lines doc 13-16 Kent and deck repair 17-26 more lines doc 17-30 Cherie Jim Event and recovery Oct 2013 lines doc 1-31 lines doc all month, every day Nov 2013 lines doc 1-7 lines doc work 8-11 Torrey Diane 12-30 lines doc work Dec 2013 lines doc 1-18 lines doc work 19-28 lines doc work 29-31 gave assist to Mr. Agassi on toroidal coordinates Jan 2014 lines doc 1-31 lines doc work (end with Cold Day #4) Feb 2014 lines doc and Bipolar doc 6 generalized all King stuff to magnetic conductors 1-12 finish lines doc and put on web as first release, decide not to update Coax Doc 15 gaping flaws in lines doc noted 17-25 wrote Bipolar Doc and released it 26-28 find Pozar, worry about surface currents, H perp at surface Mar 2014 lines doc and radial Hall effect 2 two paradoxes, Eθ, more Debye surface current work, φ to θ 9 Jz asym even at DC, the whole ω = 0 limit of the theory at risk 27 radial Hall effect and Hall appendix 1-27 basically my theory is failing at ω = 0, reason not yet known Apr 2014 lines doc and eddy currents 1-15 eddy currents work 16-26 Cape Cod / Lee May 2014 lines doc and Zs averaging 1-6 more eddy current work, in an appendix 11 how do deal with Zs(θ) versus Zs = constant, gaping flaw from Feb 15 12 back to the ω = 0 complex of issues and problems 23 Mem Day Torrey weekend June 2014 lines doc 4 symbol summary, how to plot field lines appendix, trip to Ft Collins 14 proofing of many appendices 18 made a PDF 26 radial Hall does not explain the ω = 0 mystery 30 new version of the network Appendix K July 2014 lines doc 1 messing with App Q on limits of Z0 and k 5 App R on Belden cable redone, attenuation model fails; Marrouche visit 15-24 Cod / Lee trip 29 energy conservation section Aug 2014 lines doc 1 update Visio index, release lines after 40 weeks labor (second release) 2 ω = 0 problem persists, however. Try reflection again, asym at ω = 0 persists 11 infinite B fields discovered at ω = 0 (curl E problems) 16 Debye currents? Review all the usual suspects once again (4th time?) 22 E. Voight visits 30 better models for parameters R, C, L and G, more App Q rewrite Sept 2014 lines doc 1-8 App Q work, small and large ω limits of Z0 and k and parameters 18 still grinding away on low ω failure of theory 20-30 Chapter 7 written on this topic of ω = 0 problems, face the music Oct 2014 lines doc 1 problems with nc and ns; Chap 7 explains why ω = 0 limit is bad 9 heavy review, update Visio and Maple index 10-18 proofing and pagination 19-20 third release of lines doc; release on 20th Nov 2014 AFIB and Black PC 1-10 AFIB research on stroke and bleed rate papers 10 deliver letter and directive to LS, never heard back as of 12/11. 13-18 work on Black PC 23-30 Cod Tgiving visit Dec 2014 cosmology book and blackbody problem 1-8 no work; updated AFIB papers and email to Brent, no reply as of 12/11/14 9-15 review of books, physics boxes, courses taught, etc and Staples recycling 16-25 Cosmology 101 and blackbody 25-31 blackbody sent me to Schiff and thence to Lagrange doc (coming soon) Jan 2015 Buck restart after many years, and start AFIB papers 1-15 Buck Ch 4 and Cosmology 101 15-31 the two AFIB docs started here; got nice China email on my docs Feb 2015 finish AFIBs, resume Buck, update four docs 1-15 finish AFIB docs 16-28 Buck Ch 6 (Spock dies) Update Tour, Maple, DNA and Ng docs. Mar 2015 update Bipolar Doc, start Researchgate 1-31 update Bipolar doc, activate Researchgate for docs 5-11 Cod Lee Apr 2015 update Tensor Doc 1-30 major tensor doc update May 2015 resume Buck, then start Lagrange Doc 1-15 resume Buck at Ch 6 16-30 start Lagrange doc (led there from Buck on extremal things and blackbody) June 2015 finish Lagrange Doc, resume Buck 1-20 finish Lagrange doc 20-31 resume Buck again Ch7 and encounter differential forms July 2015 Buck handoff to Sjamaar on differential forms 1-31 start Sjamaar PDF book on differential forms Aug 2015 finish Sjamaar 1-31 finish Sjamaar PDF book on differential forms Sept 2015 start Wedge Doc 1-30 start wedge doc, read some fiber bundles and tensor products Oct 2015 Hawaii and resume Wedge Doc 7-14 Cod visit 18-25 Hawaii trip with Romines and Honings other continue wedge doc with its three part title Nov 2015 continue Wedge Doc 1-25 continue writing wedge doc 25-30 switch to a Bowl Doc rewrite due to a received email Dec 2015 switch to a lengthy Bowl Doc update 1-31 bowl doc update Jan 2016 finish bowl, resume wedge 1-5 finish bowl update 15-31 resume work on wedge doc Feb 2016 wedge doc 1-9 MRL 100th birthday week and recovery 10-29 resume wedge doc, Chapter 10 on differential forms Mar 2016 wedge doc 5 question comes in regarding frames doc mws files 22 non-square matrix algebra 1-31 all month on wedge doc diff forms Ch 10 Apr 2016 wedge doc 1-30 trying to stabilize wedge doc sections 10 and 2.11 on λi 23-27 Maze trip Curt and Cadys May 2016 wedge doc 1-15 finalize chapter 10, proof all 15 update of tensor doc 20 released first cut wedge doc and a new tensor doc, but 21-31 solo Torrey trip for railing and inventory June 2016 finish wedge doc 5 new releases of tensor and wedge doc 10-11 2nd Torrey drip, grout the shower tile 12-30 457 house maintenance, no phys work done July 2016 no phys work done. 1-5 Torrey 4 July trip, Dave, Callas 12-25 Cod/Lee trip Aug 2016 no phys work done. Sept 2016 Goldstein resume then update work on Lagrange doc 16 start review of Goldstein, but did not get far. 17 pondering virtual displacements, related to constraint surfaces 21-23 App C and D of Lagrange doc, on constraint surfaces 24- 30 trying to connect Goldstein ch 2 to lagrange doc Oct 2016 Lagrange doc problems. 1-5 pulled Lag doc from xmission and RG ! Fly in ointment. 5 am now in Ch 3 of Goldstein review 6-30 wrote entire new lagrange doc paper Nov 2016 Euler doc, start update of frames doc 1-11 write and release Euler Subs doc onto xmission and RG 12-16 Goldstein Ch 3 on orbits, then start Ch 4 review on rot 17 decided this was a good time to update frames doc 18-30 frames doc errata done, shuffle appendices a bit Dec 2016 frames doc: tether/dumbbell work 1-8 frames doc work on tether, renumber sections and equations 14-18 start work on dumbbell/tether satellite 19-28 Cod trip Jan 2017 frames doc 1-15 dumbbell, first orbit plots 16-20 work on tides section 21-31 more frames finalization Feb 2017 frames doc 1-8 am "ready to make a PDF" 9-10 reading Goldstein Ch 4 to make sure nothing is left out of frames doc 11 am stymied by the Goldstein ω formula on page 134. 13-14 App G on sandwich rules etc 15-18 Goldstein Euler angles and rigid body into frames doc 19-28 Full rewrite of Section 1.1, more general frames doc repairs Mar 2017 frames doc 1-5 the Goldstein ω paradox persists 6-25 wrote App I on rigid body, App J on tensor doc 26-30 add work on electric dipole rotor and mag rotors, now 426 p Apr 2017 finish frames doc 1-7 finalize frames doc and release