Summer Research

Well, I think I can now say that I've had a good spectrum of supervisor meetings. I had to go in and say that I was stuck because I thought I'd got x and v mixed up and couldn't work out enough of the Fourth-Order Runge-Kutta to recouple the two equations. I only epiphanied in the end because my supervisor used a term which had been used in Complab when we did Second Order Runge-Kutta.

Also, I had to work out that f(x,yn) means f(x,y1,y2), where y1 and y2 are your two coupled equations before I could get anywhere.

I'm so glad for the Continuum and Mathematical Physics modules from this year. I'd be so lost without them - hbar used the same notation for those courses as is in the books my supervisor wants me to use, so, yay. Also, they mean that I know how to use a finite difference scheme and how to work in the complex plane.

Pub for supper tonight, I think, then socialising. Life is good.