Joseph MacMillan
PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
Physics
Faculty of Science
Teaching, astrophysics, and physics education research.
Contact information
Science Building
- Room 2024
North Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5
905.721.8668 ext. 2957
Research topics
- Astrophysics
- Dark Matter
- Black Holes
- Cosmology
- Physics Education Research
Areas of expertise
- Astronomy
- Physics
Background
I've been teaching physics and astronomy for over 10 years and am still trying to improve every year. I received my B.Sc. in Astrophysics from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and moved to Kingston, Ontario for my M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics at Queen's University, where I researched black holes and dark matter. I joined Ontario Tech in 2007 and have been teaching here ever since.Education
- BSc (Honours) in Astrophysics Saint Mary's University 1999
- MSc in Physics Queen's University 2001
- PhD in Physics Queen's University 2006
Courses taught
- PHY 1010U (Physics I)
- PHY 1020U (Physics II)
- PHY 1030U (Introductory Physics)
- PHY 1040U (Physics for Biosciences)
- PHY 2010U (Electricity and Magnetism I)
- PHY 3080U (Electricity and Magnetism II)
- PHY 2030U (Mechanics I)
- PHY 2040U (Mechanics II)
- PHY 2060U (Modern Physics)
- PHY 3020U (Quantum Mechanics I)
- PHY 4020U (Quantum Mechanics II)
- PHY 3060U (Fluid Dynamics)
- PHY 3010U (Statistical Mechanics II)
- PHY 2900U (Astronomy I)
- PHY 2900U (Astronomy II)
- PHY 4920U (Cosmology)
- PHY 4910U (Techniques of Modern Astrophysics)
