University physics professor

Frank H.

I have taught and done research in physics for decades, working on black hole properties, astronomical observations, aerospace applications such as launch vehicles and satellites, and a variety of other multidisciplinary areas. Over the years, I have worked at or with major corporate labs, national labs, and universities, supervising graduate students and junior researchers and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level. For the past decade I have focused on teaching, in the fall and spring terms, the core university undergraduate calculus-based physics courses, classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics (relativity and quantum mechanics). In my classes I place heavy emphasis on data analysis and visualization of laboratory data, using MATLAB, which I have been using since its inception. I am currently working on a handbook for MATLAB-based data analysis, numerical computation, and visualization of physics concepts and laboratory data.

I have long been holding office hours online to which my undergraduate students come to work through homework problems or analysis of lab data using MATLAB. I guarantee my students that if they attend such sessions, they will leave knowing how to work any problems they bring to it and be able to turn their work in on time. I nominally schedule each online student session for two hours, but I spend as much time as it takes to find the way they understand how to solve the problems they had.

I understand that time is a limiting resource for students and when I work with a student I focus on finding the best and fastest way they can understand how to do physics. All students do not have the same backgrounds, experience, or approach to solving problems, but I have long experience helping students of all levels find the path to doing physics (and the math involved) that works for them. Ultimately you, the student, must be able to do it, but I can help you capitalize on your strengths and succeed.