Physics Department faculty conduct research which contributes to the creation of new knowledge based in the most basic laws that govern the behavior of nature. Their research programs involve undergraduate students and international opportunities for collaborations with academics, industry, and governmental organizations.
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Submissions from 1998
Review of The United States and Arms Control: The Challenge of Leadership by Allan S. Krass, David W. Hafemeister
Electric Potential in the Classical Hall Effect: An Unusual Boundary-Value Problem, Matthew J. Moelter, James Evans, Greg Elliot, et al.
Reaction Sequence of Iron Sulfide Minerals in Bacteria and Their Use as Biomarkers, Mihály Pósfai, Peter R. Buseck, D. A. Bazylinski, et al.
Submissions from 1997
Ionization of Na Rydberg Atoms by Subpicosecond Quarter-Cycle Circularly Polarized Pulses, Thomas J. Bensky, G. Haeffler, and Robert R. Jones
Single-shot Detection of Wavepacket Evolution, M. B. Campbell, Thomas J. Bensky, and Robert R. Jones
Magneto-Aerotaxis in Marine Coccoid Bacteria, Richard B. Frankel, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Mark S. Johnson, et al.
Reflections on the GAO Report on the Nuclear Triad, David W. Hafemeister
Review of Possible Health Effects of Exposure to Residential Electric and Magnetic Fields, David W. Hafemeister
Review of The Nuclear Black Market, Global Organized Crime Project, David W. Hafemeister
Summing Up: Questions and Answers on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, David W. Hafemeister
Reaction of Dioxygen with a Cross-Conjugated Carbon-Carbon Double Bond in a Bis-Macrocycle Diiron Compound, D. Brent MacQueen, Christopher Lange, Melvin Calvin, et al.
"Hands-On" Epicycles and Retrograde Motion, Matthew J. Moelter and Bernard A. Bates
A Child's Flashlight and RC Circuit Concepts, Matthew J. Moelter and Rand S. Worland
Determination of the Preexponential Frequency Factor for Superparamagnetic Maghemite Particles in Magnetoferritin, Bruce M. Moskowitz, Richard B. Frankel, Sarah A. Walton, et al.
Hands-On Phasors and Multiple-Slit Interference, Rand S. Worland and Matthew J. Moelter
Submissions from 1996
Biological Effects of Static Magnetic Fields, Richard B. Frankel and Robert P, Liburdy
Background Paper on "Power Line Fields and Public Health", David W. Hafemeister
In Search of an IMPROVED Science and Public-Policy Process, David W. Hafemeister
Resource Letter BELFEF-1: Biological Effects of Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, David W. Hafemeister
Review of Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes, David W. Hafemeister
The Current Energy Situation: Summary Points, David W. Hafemeister, A. Brecher, A. Fainberg, et al.
Heat-capacity and magnetic measurements on the Y(Ni2-xCox)B2C system, C. C. Hoellwarth, P. Klavins, and R. N. Shelton
Magnetic Properties of Tunicate Blood Cells. II. Ascidia ceratodes, Kenneth Kustin, William E. Robinson, Richard B. Frankel, et al.
Submissions from 1995
Controlled Biomineralization of Magnetite (Fe3O4) and Greigite (Fe3S4) in a Magnetotactic Bacterium, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Richard B. Frankel, Brigid R. Heywood, et al.
Microbes, Magnetism, and Microscopy, E. Dan Dahlberg, R. B. Proksch, Bruce M. Moskowitz, et al.