01.20 - 01.26

It was a short week this week. Wednesday's lecture focused on integration of electric fields. Tomorrow, we will cover Gauss' law. They have their first exam next Friday (which will mainly cover Coulomb's Force, Electric Fields, and Gauss' Law) so I'm expecting some last-minute questions next week. 

During Wednesday's office hours, a student expressed that she was having trouble understanding how to solve problems related to integration of electric fields. We worked on a Sapling problem (which was more of an exercise on algebra than anything), and I provided some additional examples about how to set up the integral for various electric fields since that is where I found she was having the most difficulty. 

I also helped another student on Thursday. He had some questions on the Sapling homework. We were able to solve three problems together. They all dealt with integrating electric fields, and he got more comfortable working through each subsequent problem. He had one outstanding question at the end of office hours, so I followed up with him via email.