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| Year level: | Second year, second semester. |
| Duties: | Subject coordinator. Present three one-hour lectures each week. |
| Present two one-hour tutorials weekly. | |
| Prepare and grade assignments, tests and the final exam. | |
| Material: | Index notation, line, surface and volume integration, curvilinear coordinates, |
| Gauss and Stokes' theorem, Laplace and Poisson equations, boundary-value | |
| problems, generalized functions, tensors, magnetostatics. | |
| Innovations: | Introduced ``Conceptual Mediation'' techniques to improve students' adoption of |
| new concepts such as index notation. | |
| Stimulated interest and understanding in gradients and isosurfaces using | |
| http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/theory/staff/leinweber/teaching/visualizations of vacuum fields from Quantum Chromodynamics. |