Susan Y. Lehman

Department/Affiliation: Physics
Phone: 330-263-2214
Office Address: Taylor 105
Email: SLehman@Wooster.edu
Web Site: Susan Lehman

Degrees

• B.A., Goshen College 1993
• M.S., North Carolina Chapel Hill 1996
• Ph.D., North Carolina Chapel Hill 1999

Courses Taught

• Foundations of Physics
• Mechanics
• Modern Physics
• Modern Optics
• Electronics for Scientists
• Junior Independent Study
• First Year Seminar

Recently Advised Senior Theses

• Amanda Logue, Understanding the Expansion of a Swellable Silicate, 2011
• Heather Moore, Continuous Wave Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy, 2010
• Martha Roseberry, Finicky Freezing: Investigations into the Causes of the Mpemba Effect, 2009

Recent Publications

• "Avalanches on a conical bead pile: scaling with tuning parameters", S. Y. Lehman, Elizabeth Baker*, Howard A. Henry*, Andrew J. Kindschuh*, Larry C. Markley*, Megan B. Browning*, Mary E. Mills*, R. Michael Winters IV*, D. T. Jacobs, Granular Matter to appear (2012).
• “Measurements of the quantum-confined conduction band energy in the wetting layer surrounding individual In0.4Ga0.6As quantum dots by cross-sectional ballistic electron emission microscopy”, C. Marginean, J. P. Pelz, S. Y. Lehman, and J. G. Cederberg, Physical Review B 82, 035304 (2010).
• "Heat Capacity of the liquid-liquid mixture nitrobenzene and dodecane near the critical point", Nathan J. Utt*, S.Y. Lehman, and D.T. Jacobs, Chem Phys 127, 14505 (2007).