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Teaching Experience

Since 1974, Dr.Rau has taught at all levels, both supervising M.S. and Ph.D. graduate students in thesis research, and doing classroom teaching over a wide range of courses: introductory physics for general undergraduate students; mathematical physics, classical and quantum mechanics, and atomic physics for undergraduate physics students; and quantum mechanics, relativistic quantum mechanics, and advanced-level atomic physics for graduate students.

Courses Taught

PHYS 1100 Introduction to Physics
PHYS 1201,1202 General Physics for Physics Majors
PHYS 2001,2002 General Physics for Biology Students
PHYS 2101,2102 General Physics for Engineering Students
PHYS 2221 Introduction to Mechanics
PHYS 4112 Intermediate Mathematical Physics
PHYS 4123 Intermediate Mechanics
PHYS 4141,4142 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
PHYS 4201,4202 Survey of Contemporary Physics
PHYS 4251 Atomic Physics
PHYS 7211,7212 Mathematical Methods of Theoretical Physics
PHYS 7221 Classical Mechanics
PHYS 7241,7242 Quantum Mechanics
PHYS 7343 Advanced Quantum Mechanics
PHYS 7353,7354 Atomic and Optical Physics

Thesis Guided

1982 Samir K. Bhattacharya Two-dimensional Electron Layers in External
Fields: Effects of Non-separability
 

1988 Hin Yiu Wong Pair Basis Functions for Doubly Excited
Ridge States
 

1990 Quintin R. Molina Study of Doubly Excited Ridge States of Atoms
 

1993 Lijun Zhang Electron Pair Analysis for Doubly Excited Ridge
States
 

2000 Chitra Rangan Half-cycle Pulse Ionization of Diamagnetic
Zeeman States in Rydberg Atoms




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