Teaching Assistant in Principles of Astronomy (PHYS3652)
Undergraduate course, The University of Hong Kong, Department of Physics, 2020
The course description can be found here. The course changed its name to Astrophysics in 2021 and I was a teaching assistant there from 2021-2023:
- Gravity
- Keppler’s Laws
- Binary System and mass determination
- Special Relativity
- Time dilation, length contraction
- Relativistic momentum and energy
- Doppler shifts, relativistic beaming
- Telescopes
- Rayleigh Diffraction limit
- Seeing, atmosphere
- Interferometry
- Atomic structure
- Bohr model
- Quantum mechanics
- Radiative processes
- Spectral line transitions
- Kirchhoff’s Laws
- Spectral stellar classification
- Statistical mechanics
- Blackbody radiation
- Boltzmann Equation
- Saha equation