Teaching Work

Introduction to Mechanics

As a lecturer at San Jose State University, I had the opportunity to work with students in their introduction  to mechanics lab course for Scientists and Engineers: Physics 50 Lab. This is a calculus based course. Through my various years helping the students in this course, I developed the following notes incorporating the background needed for students to perform their corresponding laboratory work during our  lab meeting.

Significant Figures & Uncertainty 

Vectors

Discussion of Experimental error using Free Fall and Newton's Laws Labs

Friction

Conservation of Energy 

Conservation of Momentum

Ballistic Pendulum

Rotational Motion

Angular Momentum & Rotational Kinetic Energy 

Torque and Equilibrium

Review of Mechanics 

Intro to E/M and Optics

As lab coordinator at San Jose State university, I was in charge of updating and improving laboratory activities for the algebra based 2nd semester intro to physics course: Physics 2B. Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, a fully online curriculum had to be developed. The following are the laboratory manual activities to the fully online program along with slides giving the theoretical background to these activities. 

Math Methods of Physics 2B

Static Charge and Electric Force

Electric Potential and Electric Field 

Capacitance, Resistance, and Current

RC circuits and Voltage Dividers in DC

Magnetic Fields 

Earth's Magnetic Field & Charged particles in a Magnetic Field 

Electromagnetic Induction 

Impedance and AC Circuits 

Reflection Refraction and Lenses

Interference and Diffraction

The Atomic Spectra & The photoelectric Effect