Physics

It is very interesting and challenging field. I have teaching experience in physics far back to 1981 when I gave tuition to senior high school students. The ever-existing problem is how to make students aware of the involvement of physics in daily life. Physics is not something far from us, because physics describes the real world we live in, the mechanisms of our sophisticated bodies, and other natural phenomena. Thus, in my opinion, teaching physics is analogous to opening a veil of phobia. Once the veil is raised, physics will appear at least not as difficult as it was before.

The other pitfall in studying physics is the strong mathematical distractor. Many people memorize formulae, and do rigorous mathematical calculations without reasoning, to "learn" physics. But, they forget that there are stories, real ones, behind the formulae. Formulae and calculations must then have physical interpretations, otherwise we do no physics. By its very nature, mathematics has become a logically realiable, self-consistent language needed by physics to describe the magnificent mechanisms of physical universe. It is therefore merely a tool, which leads us to better understanding about nature.

I will discuss some topics here :

I taught the following courses in physics (1988-1999):

To see the syllabus of each course, please click on the corresponding links. Check also these interesting physics links.