Lecture Notes
Lectures notes are below for some of the course I teach or have taught. These are not always up to date, so current students should always use the versions on Moodle.
Special Relativity
Notes for lectures I give as part of Stage 1 PHYS3210 Mechanics and Relativity in the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kent. Last taught in 2023.
All sections can be found in a single PDF, or individual HTML pages are below:
- Section 1: Galilean Relativity and Ether
- Section 2: Lorentz Transformations
- Section 3: Time Dilation and Length Contractions
- Section 4: Spacetime and Relativity of Simultaneity
- Section 5: Relativistic Doppler Effect
- Section 6: Relativistic Velocity Transformations
- Section 7: Relativistic Momentum
- Section 8: Relativistic Energy
Introduction to Light
Notes for lectures I gave as part of Stage 1 PHYS3220 Waves and Fields in the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kent. Last taught in 2022.
Electric and Magnetic Fields and Waves
Notes for lectures I gave as part of Stage 1 PHYS3220 Waves and Fields in the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kent. Last taught in 2022.
- Introduction to Waves
- Review of Vectors
- EM Section 1: Charge and Coulomb’s Law
- EM Section 2: Electric Field
- EM Section 3: Electric Potential
- EM Section 4: Conductors
- EM Section 5: Magnetic Fields
- EM Section 6: Electromagnetic waves
Electromagnetism
Notes for lectures I gave as part of Stage 2 PHYS5013 Electromagnetism in Physics & Astronomy, University of Kent. These notes only cover the first half of the course; the remainder on induction, wave equation and relativity are taught by another academic. Last taught in 2026.
- Section 1. Maths Preliminaries [PDF]
- Section 2. Electric Field [PDF]
- Section 3. Gauss’s Law [PDF]
- Section 4. Electric Potential [PDF]
- Section 5. Laplace and Poisson [PDF]
- Section 6. Electric Dipoles [PDF]
- Section 7. Dielectrics [PDF]
- Section 8. Magnetic Fields [PDF]
- Section 9. Magnetisation [PDF]
- Appendix. Vectors Review [PDF]
- Appendix. Curvilinear Co-ordinates[PDF]
Nuclear Physics
Notes for lectures I now give as part of Stage 3 PHYS6013 Condensed Matter Physics module for the Physics & Astronomy undergraduate degree programmes at the University of Kent (and formerly as part of PHYS6660 Nuclear and Particle Physics). Last taught in 2025.
- Lecture 1: Nuclear Properties
- Lecture 2: Binding Force
- Lecture 3: Deuteron
- Lecture 4: Shell Model
- Lecture 5: Alpha Decay
- Lecture 6: Beta and Gemma Decay
- Lecture 7: Fission
- Lecture 8:Fusion
Introduction to Microscopy
Notes for lectures I gave as a part of PHYS8000 Biomedical Optics in School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kent. Last taught in 2021.
- Lecture 1: Principles of Microscopy
- Lecture 2: Lateral Resolution
- Lecture 3: Optical Sectioning
- Lecture 4: Phase Microscopy
Medical Physics
Notes for lectures I give as a part of PHYS6330 Medical Physics in School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kent. Last taught in 2024.