Tutorials

I have mentioned tutorials a few times now. Well, so far this week I have gone to four tutorials, one for each class. As a taste of what we do, I will summarize them, below:

Archaeology: we looked at aerial photographs copied out of a book to discuss the landmarkings. Mostly the tutor talked and we listened. We also got to look at a few maps. On these, if an artefact was found in a particular site, it was actually labelled on the map! There were several small circles labeled "cairn" or "fort", usually at the top of a hill, and there was even a square shape marked "Roman fort" and a point for "broch (remains of)".

Musical Acoustics: The tutor talked about each of the frequency spectrograms seen here. Then we watched two you tube videos, because they were relevant(?).
Beatboxing Flute, "Inspector Gadget" theme We watched the full 3:30.
Mozart played on wine bottles A much shorter piece, but no less impressive.
I could have done all of those things from home.

Physical Mathematics: I really didn't understand the problem set before, because we didn't have the material yet in lecture, but I quickly discovered I could do the math without having learned the concepts yet. I finished the PS in tutorial, not something I would have done in an hour on my own time.

Quantum Mechanics: Did not understand how to do the PS at all. I struggled to exchange coordinates for about 20 minutes on one problem, gave up, asked the tutors for help, played with the numbers for the next hour, and finally got it. The rest of the problems came much easier after I understood what I was doing.... I think.
Again, I would not have completed that problem set in two hours on my own time, nor without the tutors' help.