Notes¶
Various notes that, for various reasons, never found a home in a publication.. These can be ideas, things written down for remembering later or solutions to exercises. You are welcome to use material found here, with proper attribution.
Rivet tutorial for Electron-Ion collider physics¶
What: A tutorial on the Rivet analysis framework (2020) meant for electron-proton and electron-ion physics.
Why I wrote it: Rivet is an excellent framework for preservation of experimental analyses, development of observables and communication between Monte Carlo developers. At the time of writing, there were no good sources for electron-ion physics specifically.
The tutorial is written up in a document you can find below. You can also find associated slides, as well as a video recording of the lecture.
Material:
Tutorial notes ·
Tutorial slides ·
Video recording (YouTube) ·
The rest of the tutorial series (Indico)
Electrodynamics exercises¶
What: A collection of solutions to exercises to Jackson: Classical Electrodynamics (Wiley, 3rd edition).
Why I wrote it: There are many people posting solutions to subsets of this book online - I only think mine are better, because I believe them to be correct. I hope they can prove useful to someone else.
This book is one of the few true classics of theoretical physics, no matter what field you specialize in. And the problems in the book are interesting, but often quite difficult. In this compendium, I have gathered solutions to all exercises I have solved. Please do not write me to check your solutions, or to ask me to solve more exercises from Jackson.
Files:
Solutions compendium
Statistical physics exercises¶
What: A short collection of worked statistical-physics exercises.
Why I wrote it: I rarely get to use statistical physics directly in my day-to-day work, but it remains one of the most enjoyable parts of my physics education.
Topics include standard material such as entropy of a rubber band and the van der Waals equation, as well as more advanced examples like simple renormalisation-group equations and lattice spin models.
Files:
Solutions compendium