Program overview

SATURDAY MORNING, 20 OCTOBER 2001

Session C1. Physics Education: Theory and Course Design.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Seminar Room A, Nestor Hall

08:00 C1.001 Teaching Physics to Engineering Students in Finland
James F. Sullivan (OMI College of Applied Science of the University of Cincinnati)
08:12 C1.002 An Experiment with Active Involvement in the Teaching of General Physics
George Miner (University of Dayton)
08:24 C1.003 Adapting RealTime Physics
E.A. George, D.A. Fleisch, P.A. Voytas, W.E. Dollhopf (Wittenberg University)
08:36 C1.004 Using Weekly Reports to Improve Student Reflection and Predict Student Success
Kathleen Andre Harper (The Ohio State University)
08:48 C1.005 Physics by Inquiry and Student Learning Styles
Mary Wildermuth, Gordon J. Aubrecht II (The Ohio State University)
09:00 C1.006 Mathematica in Graduate Electrodynamics: Enhancing and Extending Jackson
Randy Johnson (University of Cincinnati)
09:12 C1.007 Epistemic cognition: issues in learning quantum mechanics
Keith Oliver, Lei Bao (The Ohio State University)
09:24 C1.008 Student Reasoning Across Domains of Context
Rasil Warnakulasooriya, Lei Bao (Dept. of Physics, The Ohio State University, 174 W.18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210)
09:36 C1.009 Potential difficulties for Graduate TAs to Be Effective Teachers
Gyoungho Lee, Lei Bao (The Ohio State University)

Session C2. Physics Education: Apparatus.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Seminar Room B, Nestor Hall

08:00 C2.001 The Digital Audio Editor as a Teaching and Laboratory Tool
Gregory Latta (Frostburg State University)
08:12 C2.002 Use of a research-grade magnetometer in introductory, intermediate, and advanced physics courses
Yumi Ijiri, Sarah Stoll, John Scofied (Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074)
08:24 C2.003 Measuring Temperature with a Motion Detector
Mark Fischer (College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati Ohio)
08:36 C2.004 Measuring Planck's Constant using Light-emitting Diodes
Snowflake Kicovic, Michael Crescimanno (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Youngstown State University)
08:48 C2.005 An Integrated Demonstration Sequence in Introductory Mechanics
Michael Crescimanno (Youngstown State University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)
09:00 C2.006 Modern Optics for Secondary Teachers: A New Course at Western Michigan University
Alvin Rosenthal (Dept. of Physics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008)
09:12 C2.007 Use of a Remote Controlled Telescope in Astronomy Classes
Greg Townsend (University of Akron)
09:24 C2.008 Schmidt Crater: Using Data from the Mars Global Surveyor
Fred Thomas (Sinclair Community College), Kay Cornelius Collaboration, Brian Thomas Collaboration
C2.009 Weddings, Electric Circuits, and the Corner Grocery Store
Mark Fischer (College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio)

Session C3. Theory and Experiment: Optics, Semiconductors, and Quantam Measurement.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Seminar Room C, Nestor Hall

08:00 C3.001 An Interpretation of Non-Accidental Traffic Congestion Based on a Hybrid Phenomenological Theory
Kwo-Sun Chu (Cheney University of Pennsylvania), Bernard L. Richards (Kent State University), George W. Davis (Lunatek)
08:12 C3.002 Lost in Hilbert Space: An entanglement model of the measurement process in quantum mechanics
Jarrod Schiffbauer (North Central State College)
08:24 C3.003 Beyond Dirac - a Unified Algebra
Wayne R. Lundberg (University of Dayton)
08:36 C3.004 Structural and Dynamic Properties of Silicon Di-interstials Defects.
Kaden R.A. Hazzard (The Ohio State University), David. A Richie, Jeongnim Kim, John W. Wilkins
08:48 C3.005 Er doped amorphous GaN prepared by ion beam assisted deposition
Yixiu Kang, David C. Ingram (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, OH 45701)
09:00 C3.006 Self-Diffusion in Melts and Blends of Polybutadiene: Entangled Hydrodynamics
Shanfeng WANG, Shi-Qing Wang, Ernst von MEERWALL (Univ. Akron)
09:12 C3.007 Near-Field Diffraction Patterns of Bubbles
Kevin Cissner, Roger Becker, Robert Schueler (AFRL)
09:24 C3.008 Enhancement of Beam Fanning in Barium Titanate
Neil Smith, Jan Yarrison-Rice (Physics Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH)
09:36 C3.009 Raman scattering study of polymorphism in sodium hyaluronate
I. Reineck, S.A. Lee (University of Toledo), A. Rupprecht (University of Stockholm)

Session C4. Physics and the Rest of the World.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Seminar Room D, Nestor Hall

08:00 C4.001 The finite oil resources of the world
Gordon J. Aubrecht (Ohio State University at Marion)
08:12 C4.002 The Physics Entrepreneurship Program at Case Western Reserve University
Cyrus Taylor (Dept. of Physics, Case Western Reserve University)
08:24 C4.003 Optimization of Ballast Design: A Case Study of the Physics Entrepreneurship Program
Jun Ding, Norman Cheng (Dept. of Physics, Case Western Reserve University), Abbas Lamouri, Juris Sulcs (Venture Lighting International, Inc.), Robert Brown, Cyrus Taylor (Dept. of Physics, Case Western Reserve University)
08:36 C4.004 Degenerate Frequencies I: Noise Decoupling of Planar Ladder Coils
Yu-Chung Cheng, Timothy Eagan (Affiliation), Tesfaye Kidane, Robert Brown (Case Western Reserve University)
08:48 C4.005 Degenerate Frequencies II: Sensitivity to Arbitrary Field Profiles
Timothy Eagan, Yu-Chung Cheng, Tesfaye Kidane (Affiliation), Robert Brown (Case Western Reserve University)
09:00 C4.006 "An estimate of the probability of vesicle exocytosis in a Monte Carlo model of buffered diffusion of calcium channel currents"
Z.M. Dimcovic, T.P. Eagan, T.K. Kidane, R.W. Brown, R.G. Petschek (Dept. of Physics, CWRU), M.W. McEnery (Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, CWRU)