252 Science Building
Office: 207.780.4158
FAX: 207.228.8288
COURSES I’M TEACHING
PHY 123: General Physics II
PHY 213: Non Classical Physics II
PHY 240: Intermediate Physics Lab
Upcoming Fall 2008 COURSES
PHY 121k: General Physics I
PHY 211: Non Classical Physics I
PHY 261: Computational Physics
USM ZAZENKAI
Spring Schedule: Mon: 12-1 pm
Location: Former Alumni House Open to all interested.
OFFICE HOURS
Monday: 10-11
Tuesday: 12-1
Friday: 10-11
PUBLICATIONS
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•The Headlight Effect, from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, October 2007, Link
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•Measuring Boltzmann's constant using video microscopy of Brownian motion, American Journal of Physics, 71 (6) June 2003 .pdf (235 kB)
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•Statistics of continuous motion force events in a driven 2D granular array, .pdf (284 kB)
MISC. LINKS
USM Physics Club
Almost carbon neutral car! A little site devoted to our 1987 Mercedes-Benz 300TD vegetable oil--powered cars.
Paul Andrew Photography - a website for my photography (yes, I do weddings too).
Our Eventual House - a blog about building a zero net energy house.
Powder Page. for a list of researchers and more info about granular materials.
Science, Pseudoscience & Religion: An infrequently updated blog.
Previous Home Page Photos
Research and Teaching Interests
Computational Physics: I am currently working on a draft of a textbook which I call Introductory Computational Physics with Python. I am using draft chapters in my fall 2007 course, Computational Physics.
Granular Physics: I have been studying the stick-slip dynamics of a two dimensional array of cylinders. We are looking at the statistics of stick-slip events as well as rotational motion within the array. See the Granular Physics Lab page for more information. I am currently working on a computer simulation of a two layer granular system.
Physics Education: My main inspiration for physics education came from reading the works of Carl R. Rogers (Freedom to Learn and it's revisions). I have been incorporating authentic assessment and conceptual questioning into my introductory physics classes. In addition, I am integrating modern computer-based data acquisition into the advanced physics labs and have developed a way to measure Boltzmann's constant by using video microscopy of Brownian motion
Curriculum Vitae: Click CurriculumVitae2007.pdf to download in PDF format. The file includes as an attachment, the original LaTeX source which you can feel free to extract (you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader) and use as a LaTeX CV template. (updated 04/19/2007)
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