Dear Physics 129L students Here is some information about the upcoming class. The 2nd point is VERY important, so make sure to read this mail carefully. (1) We will not be using Gaucho Space. Instead, the website for this class is http://hep.ucsb.edu/people/claudio/ph129-w19/ (2) You will need to buy a small computer for this class (Raspberry Pi). It is not very expensive, but YOU NEED TO DO THIS BEFORE THE FIRST CLASS. Details are spelled out in the website above. Read carefully. (3) The seating in Broida 5223 is limited, and this class was oversubscribed. To accomodate everybody, I will be lecturing twice (MW 12:45-2:00 and MW 2:00-3:15). For technical reasons these two lecture sections look like two different courses in Gold. But everything will be the same. Also, for technical reason the 2:00-3:15 lecture is much more crowded than the 12:45-2:00 lecture. It would be great is some of the students enrolled in the 2:00-3:15 section would come to the 12:45-2:00 section instead. If you want to do this, please let me know by sending a message to claudio@physics.ucsb.edu with subject line: [phys129] would like to come to 12:45 lecture instead (I am asking for this information because if too many students come at 12:45 we will not be able to accomodate them). OTOH, if you are enrolled in the 12:45-2:00 lecture, DO NOT COME to the 2:00-3:15 lecture. Have a great holiday and see you in January Claudio Campagnari