Courses involved as teaching assistant
UGEB2402 Origins – From Cosmos to Life (Summer 2023)
Course description: This course aims at providing an introduction to the formation of the cosmos and the origin of life from an astrophysical perspective. The journey starts from the origin of the universe, and leads us through all the intermediate milestones such as the appearance of matter, the formation of galaxies, the formation of stars and planets, the appearance of simple life forms, and the evolution of life on Earth. Students can thus develop a complete picture of the current understanding of the emergence of life in the cosmos, and gain perspectives of the scientific method that allows us to arrive at the knowledge.
UGEB2401G Astronomy (Winter 2023)
Course description: A qualitative and non-mathematical survey of major ideas in astronomy. Topics covered may include: earth and sky, moon, origin of modern astronomy, light and telescope, starlight and atoms, the sun, binary stars and their significance, stellar evolution, neutron stars and black holes, Milky Way, galaxies, quasars, the structure of the universe, solar system, meteorites, asteroids and comets. This course will include one night of observation. This course aims at introducing basic concepts rather than mathematical and factual details. Lectures are designed not only to present a volume of knowledge, but also to arouse students’ curiosity in how nature works.
PHYS2711 Physics Laboratory II (Fall 2022)
Course description: This course aims to introduce basic skills in performing experimental measurements, handling and utilizing basic equipment; and build necessary concepts and attitudes of data and error analysis. The experiments in this course also serve to illustrate the principles and reinforce the concepts taught in the lecture courses. Some of the topics included are:
- Electrical resistivity of metal and semiconductor
- Hall effect
- Verification of Ampere's law
- Verification of Faraday's law
- Damped oscillator, forced oscillator and resonance
- Measurement of half-life of a radioactive source
- Determination of e/m ratio of electron