Contact
Associate Professor, Faculty of Science - Physics
- rafernan@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Theoretical & Computational Astrophysics Transients & Compact Objects
About
1999 - 2003 BSc Pontificia Univ. Católica (Chile)
2004 - 2009 PhD University of Toronto (Canada)
2009 - 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study (USA)
2013 - 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley (USA)
2016 - 2022 Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
2022 - Associate Professor, University of Alberta
Research
Courses
PHYS 230 - Electricity and Magnetism
Electric fields, Gauss' Law; electric potential; capacitance and dielectrics; electric current and resistance; magnetic fields, Ampere's Law; Faraday's Law; inductance; magnetic properties of matter. Prerequisites: PHYS 130 or 146, and MATH 100 or 113 or 114 or 117. Pre- or corequisite: MATH 101 or 115 or 118. For Science students only: SCI 100 may be used in lieu of PHYS 146, MATH 114 and 115. Note: Restricted to Engineering students. Other students who take this course will receive *3.0. Credit may normally be obtained for only one of PHYS 230 or 281.