June K. Wicks

Email: wicks "at" caltech . edu
Office: 062b Arms

June's Ge 214 TA page

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Office hours: I'm generally available by appointment, but promise to be in my office Mondays 10am-noon and Fridays 1-3 pm.
I encourage you to seek me out if you have questions about the course material or about the current or graded homeworks (we don't give out solution sets, so talk to me to fill in the gaps)

Collaboration Policy: Since I will be grading the homework, this is what I expect: Our assignments are meant to give you real examples of the types of spectroscopy we learn about in class. It should be a given that you will write up all of your own work, without the aid of other students' homework, either from this year or previous years. Attempt the homework yourself first before seeking out help.

Grading: The emitted intensity of scattered photons from excited states of nuclei and electrons decreases with a characteristic exponential decay, determined by the energy width of the excitation energy. In the same spirit, late homework grades will be scaled according to an exponential decay, with a half-life of 1 week. (I may give you some points back if you tell me what Γ this corresponds to).

I will give extensions for extenuating circumstances if you talk to me before a set is due. Timely homeworks will help me return graded material in a similarly timely manner.