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| Year level: | First year, second semester. |
| Duties: | Create and present eleven one-hour lectures and four one-hour tutorials. |
| Prepare MyUni quizzes, assignment questions, tutorial problems and | |
| associated solutions. Set and mark the final exam. | |
| Material: | Postulates, relativity of simultaneity, time dilation, length contraction, ladder-garage |
| paradox, twin paradox, Lorentz transformations, adding velocities, relativistic | |
| dynamics, antimatter, tomography, x-ray diffraction, photoelectric effect, Compton | |
| scattering, diffraction of matter, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Schrödinger's cat, | |
| models of the atom, particle physics. | |
| Innovations: | Stimulated interest via discussions of realism, determinism and Schrodinger's cat. |
| Extensive use of YouTube videos in Lectures to reinforce concepts. | |
| Creation of new YouTube videos to bring research-level concepts into first year. | |
| (See the Science Promotion section). |
Derek Leinweber 2017-02-06