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2025
Introduction to Modern Physics
An overview of special relativity, quantum mechanics, and atomic physics for third-year undergraduates.
Topics covered: special relativity, the photoelectric effect, Bohr model, wave-particle duality, Schrödinger equation, and introductory quantum mechanics.
2024
General Relativity
A graduate course covering differential geometry, the Einstein field equations, black holes, and cosmology.
Prerequisites: classical mechanics, special relativity, multivariable calculus. Textbook: Misner, Thorne & Wheeler, Gravitation.
2023
Introduction to Special Relativity
Undergraduate course covering Lorentz transformations, spacetime diagrams, relativistic kinematics and dynamics, and the equivalence of mass and energy.
2022
Quantum Mechanics I
First-semester graduate quantum mechanics. Topics include Hilbert spaces, Dirac notation, the Schrödinger equation, operators and observables, harmonic oscillator, angular momentum, and spin.