Teaching Experience:

I have been teaching as an instructor or professor in physics and mathematics since 1992.  I also worked as a teaching assistant while at William and Mary. These jobs are listed below.

• Astronomy 101 and 111
This is the general astronomy course, lecture and laboratory, for non-science majors at Centenary College. The Fall 1999 class had 14 students. The Spring enrollment was 15 students. The text is Chaisson and McMillan.
 
• Physics 323 - Mathematical Methods of Physics and Engineering
This is the introductory advanced math course for physics and engineering majors at Centenary. Topics covered include vectors, matrices, eigenvalue problems, vector calculus, Fourier series, and partial differential equations. The text was Kreysig. The Fall 1999 enrollment was 3 students.
 
• Engineering 311 - Intermediate Mechanics: Statics
This is the standard course in statics for engineers at Centenary. The Fall 1999 enrollment was 2 students.
 
• Physics/Engineering 312 - Intermediate Mechanics: Dynamics
This is the main intermediate mechanics course for both physics majors and engineers at Centenary. The text is Symon's Mechanics. The Spring 2000 enrollment was 4 students.
 
• Physics 321 -Thermal Physics
This is the course in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics at the junior level for physics majors. The text is by Schroeder. The Spring 2000 enrollment was 4 students.
 
• Physics 215-Astronomy
This is the general astronomy course for non-science majors at Auburn. It covers naked eye observation to the latest discoveries in cosmology. The students have access to telescopes as part of the laboratory. The enrollment for Winter 1999 was 67 students. The enrollment for Spring 1999 was 44 students.
 
• Physics 222-General Physics III
This is the last course of a three quarter sequence of calculus based physics at Auburn University. It is part of the core engineering curriculum at Auburn. It covers electricity and magnetism from Coulomb's law to Maxwell's equations. The enrollment was for Winter 1998 was 72 students.
 
• Physics 207-Introductory Physics III
This is the last course of a three quarter sequence of the algebra/trigonometry based physics at Auburn University. It covers optics, special relativity, old quantum theory, and nuclear physics. The enrollment for Winter 1997 was 110 students. The textbook is by Hecht.
 
• Physics 221-General Physics II
This is the middle course of a three quarter sequence of calculus based physics at Auburn University. It is part of the core engineering curriculum at Auburn. It covers harmonic motion, waves, fluids, thermodynamics, and optics. The enrollment for Winter 1996 was 68. The textbook was by Fishbane, Gasiorowicz, and Thornton.
 
• Physics 101-102.
This is the calculus-based introductory physics course for science majors at William and Mary. 101 covers mechanics and 102 covers thermodynamics and electricity and magnetism. This was the main course offered by the physics department in the summer. I was the lecturer for these classes for four years, from 1992 to 1995. This course allowed students to take the two semester sequence in two 5 week sessions and get credit for their laboratory science requirements. The textbooks used were by Halliday & Resnick and Tipler.

In some places adjuncts perform only minimal duties, in this case I was responsible for organizing the ten week summer session -- including selecting and supervising the 12 graduate assistants hired to teach the labs, grade homework, and teach the problem sessions each summer. There were an average of 35 to 50 students in each half of the class each year.
 

• Calculus 111-112.
These two courses form the differential and integral calculus sequence taught by the mathematics department at William and Mary. The first course, 111, consists of differential calculus while the second half, 112, covers integration, differential equations, and power series. The two semester sequence used the Harvard Curriculum, a graphics calculator based approach to teaching calculus which emphasizes numerical and graphical methods as well as analytical solutions.  I taught 111 once in 1993 (45 students) and 112 three times in Spring and Fall of 1994 (84 students total). The average class size of 112 was between 25 and 30 students.
 
• Other teaching positions held in the physics department at William and Mary included grading senior statistical mechanics (Physics 403), supervising and grading experimental modern physics (Physics 352), and being the teaching assistant for introductory astronomy (Physics 176).