Teaching


 

 

Course

Semester

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Description / Links

Full Class:

 

 

 

General Physics II

Summer 2006

 

A one-semester, algebra-based general physics course including the study of electricity, magnetism, light, optics, and modern physics. Syllabus

Labs:

 

 

 

Modern Physics Laboratory

Spring 2007

 

Special relativity theory, black body radiation, photons and electrons, wave particle duality. Elements of atomic theory, nuclei, and fundamental particles.

Astronomy Laboratory

Spring 2007

 

Celestial motions and the night sky. Planetary astronomy, light spectra, the moon, expanding universe.

Honors Physics I Mechanics Laboratory

Fall 2004

Spring 2005

 

 

Mechanics of particles and rigid bodies, Newton's laws, conservation principles, oscillatory and wave motion, sound. Syllabus

Honors Physics II E&M Laboratory

Spring 2006

 

Electricity and magnetism; Coulomb, Ampere and Faraday Laws.  Electromagnetic oscillations and waves. Light; diffraction, and interference. Syllabus

General Physics I Mechanics Laboratory

Spring 2006

 

Mechanics of particles and rigid bodies, Newton's laws, conservation principles, oscillatory and wave motion, sound, pre-med and non-calculus based. Syllabus

SI:

 

 

 

General Physics II E&M

Supplemental Instruction

Spring 2005

 

Electricity, magnetism, light, optics, modern physics.

What is Supplemental Instruction?

General Physics I Mechanics

Supplemental Instruction

Fall 2004

 

Academic support for students via weekly sessions to facilitate group problem solving, encourage critical thinking and general understanding of the physics.  Mechanics, waves, heat.

How to learn physics.

Recitations:

 

 

 

Graduate Statistical Mechanics

Spring 2007

 

Classical, quantum, partition functions, ensembles, thermodynamic quantities, approximation methods, Fermi/Bose systems, etc.

Honors Physics I Mechanics Recitation

Fall 2005

 

Introduction to the fundamental physics of mechanics. Topics include laws of motion, work and energy, momentum, circular and rotational motion, gravity, and fluids. Emphasis on techniques of problem solving.

Honors Physics II E&M Recitation

Fall 2006

 

Electricity and magnetism, problem solving, review, lecture.

Tutoring:

 

 

 

Physics Tutorial Center Manager

Fall 2006

PTCM

Coordinated and maintained graduate student help for undergraduates.

Physics Tutorial Center

Fall 2004

PTC

Free service provided to all introductory physics students. Located in Philips 245. 

Schedule of the peeps at PTC

ROTC Armory Tutor

Fall 2006

 

Physics, math, astronomy tutoring for the Air Force, the Navy, and the Army. 

Personal Paid Tutor

 

 

Email me and ask nicely.

 

Do you need help? Questions, tutoring, or just casual discussion about physics? Please feel free to email me at mgood@physics.unc.edu

 Carolina’s physics course listings.

 


Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful that when we grasp it – in a decade, a century, or a millennium- we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid for so long?

– John Archibald Wheeler