SATURDAY MORNING, 8 NOVEMBER 2003

Session MA. General Physics and Physics Education.

Saturday morning, 08:00, Airlie, HISR

08:00 MA.001 Physics of Music: Jayanti Lahiri (Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA)
08:12 MA.002 Effects of Temperature and Humidity on Major League Baseballs: Victoria Gerstman (Miami Palmetto Senior High School), Brian Raue (Florida International University)
08:24 MA.003 Index of Refraction Profile in a Highway Mirage: Bryan Nelsen, James LoBue, Mark Edwards (Georgia Southern University)
08:36 MA.004 Solar Interactions on Spiral Petroglyphs: Brian F. Davis (University of North Carolina at Wilmington), Robert A. Preston (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
08:48 MA.005 Nanosprings, Another Piece of the Nanotechnology Puzzle: David McIlroy (Department of Physics, University of Idaho)
09:24 MA.006 Motivating Students to Learn Physics using WebAssign 4.0: John Risley (NC State University and Advanced Instructional Systems, Inc., Raleigh, NC)
09:36 MA.007 Teaching Technolgies for the Introductory Physics Classroom: William McNairy (Dept. of Physics Duke University)
09:48 MA.008 An introduction to the Dieterici Equation and the van der Waal Equation: John Sheldon (Florida International University)
10:00 MA.009 Computer-Based Diffraction and Interference Experiments for Introductory Physics: R. Seth Smith (Francis Marion University)
10:12 MA.010 The Advanced Placement Physics Examinations: Test Development and Free-Response Section Readings: Terri McMurray (Career Center, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools), L. S. Cain (Physics Department, Davidson College)
10:24 MA.011 Science Professionals and the NC-PIMS Project: David G. Haase (The Science House and Physics Dept., NC State University), Jose' J. D'Arruda (Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, UNC Pembroke)
10:36 MA.012 Top-Down Physics: Michael Schillaci (Francis Marion University)

Session MB. Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Invited Session.

Saturday morning, 08:30, Causeway, HISR

08:30 MB.001 Experiments with a cold strongly-interacting Fermi gas: Andrey Turlapov (Duke University)
09:06 MB.002 Bose-Einstein condensation, atom waveguides and quantum computing with nanokelvin atoms: Michael Chapman (School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332)
09:42 MB.003 Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices: S. L. Rolston (University of Maryland, College Park and NIST, Gaithersburg)

Session MC. Theoretical Physics.

Saturday morning, 08:30, Tidewater, HISR

08:30 MC.001 A wormhole generated physical universe with refined approximation: Latif Choudhury (Elizabeth City State University)
08:42 MC.002 Construction of Nonstandard Finite Difference Schemes for Reaction-Diffusion PDE's: Ronald E. Mickens (Clark Atlanta University)
08:54 MC.003 Numerov Extension of Transparent Boundary Conditions for the Schrödinger Equation in One Dimension: Curt A. Moyer (UNC Wilmington Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography)
09:06 MC.004 Canonical Transformation and Duality in the (\phi^4+\phi^6)_2+1 scalar field theory: Abouzeid Shalaby, Chueng-Ryong Ji (Dept of Physics, North Carolina State University)
09:18 MC.005 The Time Evolution and Partial Revivals of a Particle in an Asymmetric Well: Mario Belloni (Davidson College), Richard Robinett, Michael Doncheski (Pennsylvania State University)
09:30 MC.006 An Analysis of a Nonlinear Elastic Force van der Pol Oscillator Equation: 'Kale Oyedeji (Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA)
09:42 MC.007 Field theoretical understanding of dynamics of plastic deformation: Sanichiro Yoshida (Southeastern Louisiana University)
09:54 MC.008 General Relativity Simulations Using Open Source Physics: Wolfgang Christian (Davidson College)
10:06 MC.009 Transfer Matrix Approach to Solving Linear Geostrophic Wave Equations: Russell Herman (University of North Carolina at Wilmington)