Development of a New Physics Demonstration Facility and Renovation of General Physics III (modern physics) Laboratory

Project Overview
Project Title	Development of a New Physics Demonstration Facility and Renovation of General Physics III (modern physics) Laboratory
Project Leader	Prof Penger Tong and David KS Mak
School / Dept	SSCI / PHYS
Project Duration	Jan 2011 - Aug 2012
Project Description	This project planned to facilitate the implementation of the new 4-year curriculum at the program level to offer general physics courses for a large number of incoming students who had less preparation in basic science and less exposure to laboratory work than the A-level entrants. The project would set up a departmental demo room and introduce more classroom demonstrations for the general physics courses, and revamp the laboratory component of General Physics III for Modern Physics. The planned reform for the general physics courses was expected to improve the classroom demonstration and laboratory teaching for future students.
Project Outcome	A fully functional demonstration facility is set up in the Department of Physics. It includes a demo room for storing all demo items and an online catalog listing all the available demos. Revamp of General Physics III lab, involving resdesigning the course format and syllabus, revising the existing experiments and adding new experiments. Posters for introducing and promoting General Physics lab courses are developed and posted.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Progress Report Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

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