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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

In the second meeting of my Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism lecture class for the eleventh week of the first term, I started on the last two chapters of the term, about magnetic fields.

This required the extensive use of the right hand rule that we already took up in the lab class, and not just for current to magnetic field and vice versa, but also with force and torque.

I also used most of the checkpoints in the book to find out if they understood, but not the examples yet that have numeric values.

Towards the end of the class, I also arranged the schedule of their practical exam in the lab already, making it random for everyone and not first-come first-serve to sign like some of my students remembered from their introduction to mechanics lab last year. This, I believe, was more fair for all.

There were two pairs to exchanged schedules though, so as not to have to wait too long, and go first, not what students usually look for.

In my experience, students prefer to have the later schedule to have more time to study and ask from those who went first.

There was only one set of schedules that each pair (one from each of the two sections) would share, so one switch was for two people.

This is also where I added the series, parallel, loop and node rule applications that I gave them the meeting before, which I said would be credited to both the lecture and lab classes.

Next meeting I'll give them numeric examples as well as more applications of the right hand rule and cross product for non-axial values, that I also just gave the Engineering Materials Science class in their plane angle application.

Session 1259 is scheduled for the practical exam first. Class dismissed.