Group Quiz #2 Solution

The labs for this week are Lab 4 Problems #1 and #2.

A new lab report was assigned on October 17th: Lab Report Assignment. This lab is due October 24th.

Here is this week's discussion problem, and solution

Lab Report #2 Due on Thursday, October 24th.

This week's labs are Lab #4 Problems #3 and #4.

A copy of the class data for this week can be found here: lab_data_lab4p34.pdf thursday

This week's labs are Lab #5 Problems #1 and #2

Here's a short outline of what I think constitutes a good lab report.

For those interested in using LaTeX to typset material, if you haven't already you need to download a TeX distribution. Here's a good link to a discussion of distributions for different operating systems. If you have a Mac you can find a good distribution here and a good front-end in TeXShop. If you have a Windows computer, I've heard that MiKTeX is very good. A short introduction that I wrote can be found here This is just the .pdf version. There is much more in the commented code, which I've included here in raw text format. You'll have to copy and paste into a .tex file to be able to compile it.

I currently work in the LIGO Stochastic Group on detection of the stocastic gravitational wave background.

I am a second year physics grad student at University of Minnesota working in the LIGO group. In 2012 I graduated with a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from Kenyon College in Gambier, OH, where I ran for the Lords Cross Country Team. I'm originally from Philadelphia, PA.