Today my teaching duties restart once more! For the rest of the semester I’m looking at a tightly packed schedule where I’ll once again be teaching Classical Thermodynamics for the Mathematics BSc and, for the first time, Relativity (mostly Special Relativity) for the Physics BSc. The latter in particular will be a rather big pair of shoes to fill, as the course has been successfully delivered for several decades by Luciano Vanzo (including when I was a BSc student), who retired a few months ago. During these busy months it is unlikely that I’ll be able to do much research, hopefully my collaborators (in particular my group members) will understand 🤪 As in previous years, all my teaching material will be made publicly available, while being regularly updated, on the English and Italian versions of my teaching page.
Teaching feedback
I just received the feedback from students of the courses I delivered last semester (again General Physics I part 2 and Advanced Topics in Theoretical Physics). As with last year, the feedback was excellent, with a satisfaction index of 100% (which in turn gives me lots of satisfaction): particularly appreciated were my efforts to develop the students’ physical intuition, which is something I indeed consistently pay particular attention with. Again, these positive comments will motivate me to do even better next time (when I will also be taking over the Special Relativity course, after decades during which Luciano Vanzo taught it - a rather big pair of shoes to fill)!