Eric

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5 (1 review)

$30/h

A Waterloo Math grad teaches math, science, and the beauty of a logical world. In Goderich, ON.

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Physics
Information Technology

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- At Eric's house: Goderich
- at home or in a public place : will travel up to 10 km from Goderich

About Eric

I spent five years studying mathematics and physics at Waterloo, then another few years studying theoretical physics at Queen's. I've been out of academia for a while, but I never lost interest in math and physics. I still do a *lot* of math and physics in my spare time. Right now, I'm working on questions of time and randomness in quantum mechanics. I am studying quantum scattering, rates of reaction and heat transfer as examples of inherently random processes. Basically, the universe seems pretty random, but quantum mechanics, strictly speaking, does not allow for randomness. So, I am trying to figure out why the universe is random. I play quite a lot of piano. I was formally trained to grade 8 in RCM. I still write music on occasion, like if I hear a particularly interesting song in a dream. I almost have perfect pitch. I have been trying to cultivate my perfect pitch as a skill, using memory aids. For instance, I know that Don't Stop Me Now by Queen is in F major, and I can usually correctly recall the song in the right key, so I can use this to produce an F from memory. I also have a love of languages. I was in French Immersion in the Catholic school system, so my French is pretty good. When I was at Waterloo, I took three courses in Russian and a course in Chinese. At Queen's, I learned a little Arabic in my spare time. And over the past two months, I have been learning Finnish. I also really enjoy applying my knowledge of physics and passion for experimentation to cooking. There is some pretty neat physics in there.

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I teach logic, curiosity, and communication skills, the only things needed to excel at mathematics and science. No prior interest in math or science is required. In fact, these lessons are for children and adults who might otherwise not come into contact with the kind of math and science that is taught at university and which powers the real world. Of course, such prior interest wouldn't hurt. Lessons are weekly and last one hour. Each lesson ends with questions that the student must try to answer over the next week. Each lesson begins with a review of the student's answers to these questions—a review which inevitably leads to further questions. And so the process repeats. There is no curriculum. The subject matter is guided by the natural course of the question answer cycle. Here's an example: How do we know how much oxygen, nitrogen, and argon are in the atmosphere? This is a potential question that a student must think about for a whole week. The student may conclude that there must be a way to separate the three gases, and might have some guesses as to how. The answer is revealed in the next lesson: the easiest way of separating the three gases is to cool air until it's a liquid, then gradually heat it up again, so that just one gas at a time evaporates. Nitrogen comes out first, then oxygen, then argon last. This raises a host of other questions. Why is nitrogen the first to come out? Why not gradually cool the starting air, until argon condenses out first? Can we actually make one of these? When a question in the cycle requires specific skills to answer, those skills are developed, with homework assigned.

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Tucker

Eric worked with me after he finished his BSC at Queen's University. He applied mathematical and computational methods to solve a physics problem. Eric is very smart and he knows the math required for physics and chemistry courses well. In addition, he is a nice person.
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Tucker
Eric worked with me after he finished his BSC at Queen's University. He applied mathematical and computational methods to solve a physics problem. Eric is very smart and he knows the math required for physics and chemistry courses well. In addition, he is a nice person.
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