Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:33:39 -0800
From: Ling-Lie Chau <chau@physics.ucdavis.edu>
Subject: 010-B; Welcome & Mars rover news
Cc: 010-TA: Steve Tappel <tappel@physics.ucdavis.edu>
Bcc: 010-B01-Sp04, 010-B02-Sp04, 010-B03-Sp04, 010-B04-Sp04

Dear Phy010-B students:

Welcome to the class.

Soon I will send to you the syllabus of the course. First thing to note is that there will be no discussion sessions on Wednesday, 1/7/03. The first class of our course starts on Thursday, 1/8/03. [First homework (to be handed out in the first Thursday class) will be due by noon time, Thursday, 1/15/03, in a box in front of Mr. Tappel's office, 410 Phy/Geo.]

What prompted me to send you this e-mail now is the news about the Mars rover, http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/3855168/. The report is quite interesting and have a couple of free videos about the project. Its landing countdown will be tonight, Sat. 1/3/04.

E-mail will be an important tool for our communication, as will be explained in the syllabus. When you send me an e-mail, please always put in the Subject field: "010-B0n: xxx," in which put your Subsection number of the course for "n", and write a few words about the content of your e-mail at "xxx". This will be important for me to respond to your e-mail (minimizing the chance of it being deleted with junk mails) and for my filing the e-mail.

As always, it will be great to hear from you.

Best wishes for a happy and productive 2004!     

Ling-Lie