Wooster Physics Junior Theses

Most of these are archived as PDF documents. You may download the latest free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

2008

Averell Gatton, Visually Exploring the Einstein Field Equations
Matthew Gorski, Bohmian Quantum Mechanics and the Finite Square Potential Barrier
Evan Heidtmann, Simulating Bragg Diffraction to Understand Divergence from Theory in an Introductory Laboratory Experiment
Frank King, Finding the critical temperature of a YBCO superconductor using a voltage probe.
Mary Mills, Analyzing Fractal Dimensions and Self-Similarity in Chaotic Light Scattering
Martha Roseberry, Drip Drop: A Brief Study of the Dripping Faucet
Henry Timmers, Holographic Interferometry of a Stressed Pop Can
Mike Zappitello, A Computer Program to Simulate Bird Flocking
Mark Zimmerman, Modeling Two Dimensional Incompressible Fluid Flow with the Navier Stokes Equations

2007

Mateo Chinchilla, Modernizing the Cavendish Experiment
John Gamble, Using toy dynamos to model the sun's magnetic field
Howard Henry, Determining the Surface Tension of Water via Light Scattering
Kirsten Larson, The Effects of Moons on Saturn's Ring System
Kelly Patton, Studying the Effects of Filling a Helmholtz Resonator with Spheres
Joseph Thomas, The Mpemba Effect: Studying the effects of initial temperature, evaporation, and dissolved gasses on the freezing of water
Mark Wellons, The Stefan-Boltzmann Law

2006

Mike Davis, The Spring-Block Model of Earthquakes
Stephen Poprocki, Measuring the surface tension of water from the diffraction pattern of surface ripples
Jon Rosch, The Effects of Fluid in a Can Rolling Down an Incline
Sarah Suddendorf, Double Exposure Holography
Danny Tremblay, Resonance in a piezoelectric material
Myat Tun, Using light scattering method to find the surface tension of water
Nathan Utt, Contraction of a Free Falling Liquid Jet
Lisa May Walker, The random walk of radiation from the sun

2005

Jeremy Hohertz, Measurement of the diameter of polystyrene spheres using photon correlation spectroscopy
Andrew Kindschuh, Percolation of a Liquid Through a Porous Solid
Kathleen McCreary, A Study of the Motion of a Free Falling Shuttlecock
Katherine Olaksen, Simulation Verifying the Ideal Gas Law
Danny Shai, Investigation of a Blazed Reflection Grating
Angie Triplett, Finding the Spin of a Softball Pitch

2004

Andy Brinck, Compton scattering off an Aluminum target at angles of approximately 180 degrees and 90 degrees
Austin Carter, Stefan-Boltzmann Law
Mark Lightfoot, Coulomb Balance
Saleh Satti, The Perfect Basketball Shot
Dan Utley, A Study of Vibrating Objects using Time-Average Holographic Interferometry

2003

Chris Doherty, Collision Investigation
Katie Frato, Characterization of an Unknown Polymer Using Static and Dynamic Light Scattering
Nick Harmon, The Compton Effect
Dave Merriman, Measuring the Critical Temperature of a High Temperature Superconductor
Tom Spears, The Verdet Constant of Flint Glass
Brad Thomas, A Look at the critical temperature of a YBa₂Cu₃O₇ ceramic superconductor
Nithya Venkataraman, The Observation of Crystalline Structures of Evaporated 8-arm Star Polystyrene in Methylcyclohexane

2002

Clinton Braganza, Building and Testing a Chaotic Jerk Circuit
Dan Brubaker, A Mechanical Model to Investigate Nonlinear Phase Transitions
Christie Egnatuk, The Hall Effect
Nick Hanson, Verification of the Compton Effect
Ryan Hartschuh, Physics of Punting a Football
Brad Lignoski, Bicycle Stability: Is the Steering Angle Proporational to the Lean?
Joshua Martin, A Computational Simulation of the Untying of Knots
Jeff Moffitt, The Separation Dependence of Viscous Damping Coefficients
Derek Somogy, Surface Tension Waves
Becky Urban, Frustrated Total Internal Reflection

2001

Sara Connolly, Hydraulic Jumps
Giovanni Cueto, The Rate of Optical Readout on an Optical Disk
Matt Krivos, Optical Properties of CT-DNA
Christopher Locke, Phase Transitions of Mixtures of the Nematic Liquid Crystals 5CB and MBBA Using Microscopic Techniques
David J. Miller, Chaotic Light Scattering in Scatterers with 4 and 8 Exit Modes
Rob Sweeney, Using Double-Exposure Interferometry to Measure Thermal Expansion in Aluminum

2000

Lauren Ault, Modeling Airplane Wings
Andrew Bouchard, Angstrom's Method of Determining Thermal Conductivity
Rachel Mary Costello, Internal and External Behavior of a Simulated Bead Pile
Scott Hughes, Magnetic braking: Finding the effective length over which the eddy currents form
Amy Lytle, Angstrom's Method of Measuring Thermal Conductivity
Christopher Templeman, The Compton Effect

1999

Geoff Bonvallet, Differential Scanning Calorimetric Study of the Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB
Sridhar Chandramouli, Hall Coefficient of Germanium
Sean English, Stephan Boltzmann Law and Boltzmann's Constant
Andrew Nowicki, Forces that Govern a Baseball's Flight Path
Tim Sir Louis, Holography

1998

Josh Bozeday, Laser Cavity Analysis
Dinki Ghosh, Moment of inertia and nutation of a captured gyroscope
Manon Grugel, Modeling the viscous torque acting on a rotating object
Andy Kuck, Measurement of the Hall coefficient in a germanium crystal
Christy Rauch, Chaos in a Driven Nonlinear Electrical Oscillator: Determining Feigenbaum's Delta
Paul Rebillot, Determing the Ratio Cp/Cv Using Rucchart's Method
Nathan Schiffrik, Examination of Viscous Torque Relationships
Zakir Thaver, Resonance phenomenon in a forced damped oscillator
David Walkenhorst, Determining Surface Tension by Light Scattering
Carrie Williams, Application of photon correlation spectroscopy to a macromolecular system

1997

Jason Darfus, The Faraday Effect
Sahibzada Amir Hassan, The Spectrum Analyzer and the Mode Structure of a Laser
Jodee Jones, Astronaut Momentum
Jon Keim, Colliding Pulses on a String
Bryan Prusha, Chaotic Circuit
Kashif Sayan, Faraday Effect Rotation for Water and Flint Glass
Woody Shew, Inverted Pendulum

1996

Erica N. Bramley, The Faraday Effect
Delaney D. Demay, Measuring the Displacement of A Spider Web Impacted by a Flying Projectile: An Experiment in Biomechanics
Christopher J. Ditchman, Autocorrelation of Filtered White Noise
Noah Johnston, Frustrated Total Internal Reflection:Evanascent Waves
Francesca Mascarenhas, Helmholtz Resonators
Anindya Mukherjee, Speed of Light
Ali Rauf, Forced Damped Harmonic Oscillator
Chris Spillman, Resonance in a Piezoelectric LTZ Ceramic
Chigomezgo Thindwa, Conservation of Angular Momentum

1995

Darwin T. Keith-Lucas, The Density of Water
Ali Özgenç, Motion of a Leaky Pendulum
Cyrus F. Screwvala, The Chaotic Dynamics of a Bouncing Ball
Salman Saeed, Stabilization of a Multimode He-Ne Laser Using Thermal Feedback

XHTML CSS CC