Topic 7 - Components of the universe

I managed to finish off the PowerPoint cloud chamber practical presentation review of another student in my cohort. I picked one at random after emailing my tutor to let them know that I was doing this and also reflected on the feedback given by the student who reviewed mine. After a few, probably unnecessary, finishing touches and tweaking, I uploaded TMA03 to the assessment area of the website on Wednesday. The Cut-off date is midday on Monday 17th March, so I managed it in plenty of time.

Today, I officially started Topic 7 - Components of the universe. This is the first of the 'astronomy' series of topics, and the last one derived from the S112 module. The tutorial I had last Saturday morning was from somebody I hadn't met before. They were very good. Clear, concise, and knew the topic very well. It was a good introduction to the Astronomy and Planetary science change of direction.

I had another tutorial on Wednesday evening, also on astronomy. This one was by a tutor I had before and didn't think that much of, and I thought exactly the same this time. I'm sure they know their stuff and might be really good at their day job, but for one reason or another, I just found them difficult to follow. It wasn't recorded, which was probably the best thing about it.

On a more positive note, the Level 2 core physics module is being updated for next year, and details were released on Wednesday. It's rather unimaginatively called S227 Core Physics, which replaces the somewhat more imaginatively titled S217 Physics: From Classical to Quantum. It's the only 60 credit physical science module that the OU offer, all the others are 30 credits.