La Trobe University provides online physics course

Updated on: Thursday, June 07, 2012

La Trobe University is providing course content on iTunes U, joining a community consisting of universities such as Stanford, Oxford University and Yale University. The new online physics course coincides with a recently released report commissioned by Australia’s chief scientist, which shows the number of university science enrolments between 2002 and 2010 has flatlined. Senior deputy vice-chancellor John Rosenberg said that La Trobe University was committed to teaching physics, chemistry and mathematics, the ‘enabling sciences’ not only using traditional methods but also using new technology.

Through iTunes U, the university is able to take physics and other courses to an international market, sharing its academic expertise and making science come alive to an online audience.” Principles of Physics offer three lectures every week and is taught during the first semester. The course instructs in solving problems of classical physics, such as mechanics, thermodynamics, waves and optics. It provides the basis for further study in physics, engineering or other sciences offered at La Trobe University. Students also learn about linear and rotational kinematics and dynamics, geometric optics, thermodynamics, and simple harmonic motion in the subject.

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