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Welcome to the physics-notes wiki! The pages are a collection of random notes to myself.

Structure of Project

As I noted in the preface to my notes, I write in a very mathematical style (numbering every "paragraph", explaining no more than necessary, etc.).

But I also need to keep track of scratch work, notes, drafts, etc.

What I suspect I'll do is: create a directory /wiki/ consisting of various subdirectories by subject, and store in each of them a short note on one particular subject. (I learned this trick of writing 1 page summaries from a couple of courses I took from Steve Carlip while at UC Davis --- I found it works!)

Quotes

• "Classical mechanics is deceptively simple. It is surprisingly easy to get the right answer with fallacious reasoning or without real understanding." --- Preface to Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom's Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics