Teaching (Assistance)
Explanation:
Graduate students have the opportunity to work as teaching assistants, and, being a graduate student, I have taken advantage of this opportunity. This page is where I put any of the resources or links that I think are useful to my students. It is also where I record my past teaching activity.
Current Assignment:
Physics 4A Lab - Physics Laboratory for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
organized by Professor William Slater
AND
Physics 6C Lab - Physics for Life Sciences Majors: Light, Fluids, Thermodynamics, Modern Physics
taught by Professors Christoph Niemann and Brent Corbin.
Office Hours:
Thursdays 3-5pm in Knudsen 2-144.
(You'll have to knock since the door is always locked.)
Resources:
Hello students! You may find these resources useful:
- Info
- Updated Physics 4AL Syllabus [pdf]
- Free physics tutoring at the TA Center in Knudsen [pdf]
- Physics tutors for hire [pdf]
- Papers
Phys1A [pdf] Notes on Newtonian mechanics (updated 2009 Apr 07) Very compact preview/review notes. Phys1B [pdf] Pendulum collision problem Shows all the (correct) details of a problem we did in discussion session and emphasize that the mechanical energy is not conserved. Phys6B [pdf] Doppler effect in wind Emphasizes that the doppler effect equation refers to velocities with respect to the medium's rest frame, for practice before an exam. Phys6B [pdf] Notes on right hand rules Shows the various right hand rules that are used. Phys1B [pdf] Notes on Gauss's law Gives a sense of the range of application of Gauss's law. Phys1B [pdf] Notes on dipole potential energy Answers a question asked in one of my discussion sections. Phys6B [pdf] "Solving" a circuit with Kirchhoff's circuit laws Shows how to use Kirchhoff's circuit laws. Phys6B [pdf] Circuit "dividers" Shows convenient circuit equations. Phys1B [pdf] Review for final exam worksheet and [pdf] solutions From a review session for Professor Corbin's class. Phys1C [pdf] Biot-Savart law problem Explains how to solve for the magnetic field due to a current distribution. Phys1C [pdf] "Apparent depth" ray diagram problem Elaborates on a problem we did in discussion session. Phys1C [pdf] Conventions for mirror and lens equations Explains the sign conventions of these equations. (Professor Rosenzweig suggests using the first set of conventions, so as not to deviate from the book too much.) - Links
- WebAssign homework website
- Niemann's Physics 6C Public Course Website
(Login link to Private Course Website is in the upper right-hand corner) - Corbin's Physics 6C Public Course Website
(Login link to Private Course Website is in the upper right-hand corner) - Physics 6C Schedule of Classes webpage
You can get the lab TAs' names by clicking on the lab section ID Numbers. Here are the TA email addresses:- Forrester, Andrew - aforrester (at symbol) ucla (period) edu
- Fogle, Craig - cfogle (at symbol) physics (period) ucla (period) edu
- Perlmutter, Eric - perl (at symbol) physics (period) ucla (period) edu
- Tseng, Chiao-Yu - tseng (at symbol) physics (period) ucla (period) edu
- Ma, (R.) Jason - jma (at symbol) physics (period) ucla (period) edu
- Clark, Chris - cclark (at symbol) physics (period) ucla (period) edu
- Physics 4AL Schedule of Classes webpage
- Physics course listings in the general catalogue
- Free tutoring for AAP Students
- Free tutoring in Boelter Hall from Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu
- UCLA's ePhysics web demos
- Interesting physics links on my Links page
Past Teaching Assignments:
*Although the Astro 3 course is called a discussion section, it's actually a lab.