Physics instruction at Cal Poly is conducted in a variety of formats by skilled professionals who focus on building an inclusive and welcoming learning community so that all students achieve proficiency. Learn by Doing is a guiding principle that permeates the physics curriculum. A major emphasis on laboratory investigations, especially at the upper division, complements students' theoretical and computational grounding. At the lower division level, several sections of courses are taught in a studio environment using materials developed on the basis of research on the learning and teaching of physics.
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Senior Projects from 2018
Mountaintop Neutrino Detection: A nu(tau) concept, Caroline E. Paciaroni
Rental Property Energy Efficiency in San Luis Obispo, Zachary Earl Shockley
Heavy Flavour in Jets and Azimuthal Correlations, Patrick J. Steffanic
Senior Projects from 2017
My Contributions to the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events Experiment and the Utilization of Geant4 in their Analysis, Kevin Armenta
Investigation of Peltier Devices for Refrigeration, Evan C. Drake
Investigation of Neutron Induced Ternary Fission with the NIFFTE Time Projection Chamber, Alex C. Kemnitz
Improvements for the T0C+ Geometry of the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) Upgrade to ALICE at the CERN LHC, Noah Miller
Optical Physics of Rifle Scopes, Ryan Perry
Working With CUORE In Search for The Neutrinoless-Double Beta Decay, Kevin H. Phung
Faraday-Talbot Effect from a Circular Array of Pillars, Jessica J. Pilgram
Solar Powered Single-Axis Heliostat Active Solar Tracking Device, Mason Kyle Roberts
Probing the Black-Hole-Mass-Galaxy Connection of Active Galaxies Using 2D Galaxy Fitting Techniques on Near-Infrared Images, Isak Dan Stomberg
Developing an Imaging System to Monitor Atom Traps for Neutral Atom Quantum Computing, Jenna Valdez
On-Sight Shifting at the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events, Aaron C. Wong
Senior Projects from 2016
Black Holes Modeled as Fluid Droplets on Membranes, Anthony Bardessono
Modeling the SPS Feedback and Feedforward Systems for Improved Performance, Jake Hargrove
Probing the Source of Ionization of Gas in Local Active Galaxies, Jake J. Haslemann
Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion of Photons Through β-Barium Borate, Luke Horowitz
Teaching Numerical Methods in the Context of Galaxy Mergers, Maria Kourjanskaia
Probing the Fitting Accuracy of Active Galaxy Spectra, Aaron T. Line
Elasticity of Cylindrical Black Holes, Conrad Pearson
Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion in a Beta Barium Borate Crystal, Nicholas Williams
Senior Projects from 2015
Evidence of Attenuation of VHE Blazar Spectra by Extragalactic Background Light, Cameron Allen
A Lego® Brewster Angle Microscope for Quantitative Monolayer Film Analysis, Nicholas Benz