Tim Birks
Full
Name:
Prof Tim Birks
Department:
Department of Physics
Job Title:
Professor of Physics
Telephone:
+44 1225 384711
Fax:
+44 1225 386110
E-mail:
t.a.birks@bath.ac.uk
Office:
3W 3.17B
This is on level 3 (one
level up from the Parade) in building 3 West, along the corridor that links 3
West with Wessex House
Directions to the
University, with links to maps of the campus, can be found here
Postal Address:
Prof
Tim Birks
Department of Physics
University of Bath
Claverton Down
Bath BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
Research:
Details
can be found at the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials
(CPPM) website
Teaching:
PH30101 (General Relativity): I
teach the whole unit, on General relativity
without tensors, in year 3 semester 2. There's a handout on non-Euclidean
paper models.
PH40086
(Photonics): I teach half the unit, on linear photonics (mostly optical fibres),
in year 4 semester 2.
Details can be found on the
appropriate Moodle page.
Of the units I taught in the
past, I produced typeset notes on Fourier analysis
(half of PH20020, Maths for Scientists 4) and Statistical mechanics
(half of PH20029, Thermal Physics). They're available here in case anyone finds
them helpful. (NB Bath students should note that content, notation and
terminology may differ from the units as they are currently taught.)