Wooster Physics Junior Theses

2021 Spring

Bennet (Ben) Anderson, TBA
Shivam Bhasin TBA
Teague Curless, TBA
Luke Eisnagule, TBA
William Hilbert, TBA
Jonathan Logan, TBA
Lillian Miller, TBA
Benjamin (Ben) Stern, TBA
Melita Wiles, TBA
Haoge Yan, TBA

2020 Spring

Mili Barai, TBA
Yuchen Gan, TBA
Daniel (Dani) Halbing, TBA
Gentaro Nakata, TBA
Carlos Owusu-Ansah, TBA
Handeul Son, TBA
Henry Whyte TBA

2019 Fall

Megan Fisher, Using a Light Bulb Filament to Verify Power-Temperature Proportionality in an Approximate Blackbody Radiator
Mattaeus (Matt) Klonowski, Brief Exploration of Superconductivity’s Temperature-dependence
Craig Klumpp, Measuring the Drag Coefficient of a Swimmer with a Parachute
Andrew Kunkel, Estimating G Using a Gravitational Torsion Balance
Huikang (Niall) Qian, Using a laser to delay a particle
Katherine (Katie) Shideler, Measuring Energy Dissipation Within Various Granular Matter by Means of Hacky Sacking
Xinchen (Ariel) Xie, Coulomb’s Law and Leakage of Charges
Yang (Fish) Yu, The Stefan-Boltzmann Law

2019 Spring

Abigail Ambrose, The Effect of Charge and Distance on the Electrostatic Force
Adam Deeley, Exploring Aerodynamic forces on 3D Printed Propellers
Benjamin Hessman, Falling into Chaos
William (Christian) Julius, The So-Called Unpredictable Pitch: The Knuckleball
Nicholas Rosner, Experimental and Simulated Explorations of Feynman’s Disk Paradox

2018 Spring

Hwan (Michelle) Bae, Transitioning to Chaos in a Simple Mechanical Oscillator
Daniel Blaikie, Conserving angular momentum of two spinning disks before and after collision
Carson Bullock, Chaos in a Driven Mechanical Oscillator
Haidar Esseili, Calculating the Feigenbaum Constants In A Nonlinear RLD Circuit
Chase Fuller, The Young and Feynman Experiments: Is Light a Wave or a Particle?
Yuxuan (Kenny) Huang, How does tuned mass damper affect vibration with different viscosity and the mass ratio
Wan Hang (Vincent) Hui, Properties of Traversable Wormholes in Spacetime
Ben Jenkins, Flips are Fun: A Study in the Conservation of Angular Momentum of a Non-Rigid Human Body
James McElroy, Phase Shifts due to Thermal Conductivity
David Morrow, Using Ferrofluid as a Field Magnet: a Ferrofluid Electromagnetic Generator
Sam Nash, Characterizing Germanium with the Hall Effect
Danny Renbaum-Koss, Determining Tuned Mass Damper Efficiency: SHAKE ’N QUAKE
Asaki Takahashi, Self Design: Sync Test of Non-Cohesion Bead Pile
Joe Theiss, Measuring Fluid Flow in a T-Junction Pipe with Colored Dye

2017 Spring

Emma Brinton, Testing the Success in Creating Laminar Flow Using a Couette Cell Apparatus
Gabe Dale-Gau, Stochastic Resonance in a Hysteretic Circuit
Collin Hendershot, Conservation Laws in Symmetric Systems
Kyle McNickle, Trapping Polystyrene Spheres Using "Optical Tweezers"
Jack Mershon, Viability of Heat Expansion Driven Water Propulsion System Through Computational Analysis
Nathaniel Moore, Mekbuda: Cepheids and Photometry
Nathaniel Smith, Modeling Solar Sail propulsion in Spacecraft using Xcode Software
Zane Thornburg, A Quantum Paradox: The Double Slit Experiment
Avi Vajpeyi, Stokes’ and Newton’s Viscous Drag
Justine Walker, Building a Passive Robot for Active Learning

2016 Spring

Alex Gould, Acoustic Trapping: A Theoretical Analysis and Computational Implementation
Herokazu Endo, Proving the Coulomb's Law and Finding the Coulomb's Constant from Two Charged Spheres
Roy Hadfield, Rotational Analogies for Viscous Drag
Dylan Hamilton, Singing in the Wind: Numerically Solving the Navier-Stokes Equations with Movable Boundary Conditions
Marc Manheim, Lead Zeppelin: An Investigation into the Feasibility of a Modern Vacuum Balloon
Robin Morillo, Burning Up: The Effect of Slope Upon Forest Fire Propagation
Preston Pozderac, Gone With the Wind: An Investigation into the Flight Dynamics of Discs
Ziyi Sang, Quantum Decoherence - The Emergence of the Classical World from The Quantum World
Michael Wolff, Measuring Thermal Conductivity by Angstrom's Method

2015 Spring

Mitchel Gavin, Investigating the Dynamics of Leidenfrost Droplets
Laura Grace, An Investigation into the Impact of Particle Mass and Liquid Surface Tension on the Capillary Force Between a Floating Particle and a Nearby Massive Wall
Carlos Gonzalez, Using Holographic Techniques to Evaluate Deformations of a Stressed Aluminum Can
Colm Hall Determining Sphere Size Through the Observation of Brownian Motion
Spencer Kirn Separation of Seyferts and LINER Galaxies Using Eddington Ratio Derived from the Spectral Energy Distribution
Johanna Malaer Determining the Relation Between the Power Radiated by a Black Body and its Absolute Temperature
Noah Megregian, Measuring Particle Concentration Through Turbid Suspension
Calvin Milligan, Chaotic Analysis of a Mechanical Oscillator with Bistable Potential by Poincare Mapping and Phase Space Analysis
Diego Miramontes Delgado, Measuring the Magnetic Permeability Constant μ0 Using a Current Balance
Graham Schattgen, How Center of Mass Affects the Acceleration and Final Velocity of a Pinewood Derby Car
Nate Stone, Examining the Effect of Additional Driving Forces on a Mechanical Oscillator

2014 Fall

Michael Bush, Impact of the Gravitational Force on Star Formation
Nathan Johnson, Novel Methods of Avalanche Duration Measurement
Andrew King-Smith, Creating Laguerre-Gaussian Modes Using a Spatial Light Modulator
Matthew King-Smith A Nonlinear Electrical Circuit Exhibiting Period Doubling Bifurcation and Chaotic Behavior
Maggie Lankford Using Double-exposure Holographic Techniques to Evaluate the Deformation of an Aluminum Can Under Stress
Yash Lohia, The Spin-orbit Interaction of an Electron in a Cylindrical Potential
Paroma Palchoudhuri,A Study of the Phenomenon of Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion
Catherine Tieman, A Simulation of Social Forces and Collective Motion
Trent Ziemer, The Development and Numerical Modeling of a Chua Circuit as a Pedagogical Tool

2014 Spring

Shawn Bowman, The Effect of Baseball Seam Height on Magnus Force
Nicolae Istrate, Determining the Critical Temperature of YBa₂Cu₃O₇Superconductor by Using a Four-point Probe and Type-T Thermocouple
Brian Maddock, Computer Simulation of the Expansion Mechanism of Osorb®
Saul Propp, Period Doubling Rate to Chaos in a RLD Circuit
Jai Ranchod Brownian Motion of Polystyrene Spheres
Joseph Smith, Chaos and Chance: Simulating a Two-dimensional Die Roll
Amanda Steinhebel, Investigation of Fine-Tuning through the Variation of Fundamental Constants
Elliot Wainwright, Particle Size Characterization in Turbid Colloidal Suspensions

2013

Evan Hagedorn, Physics of Swimming: Conditions that Affect the Passive Drag on a Swimmer in Streamline Position
Benjamin Harris, Modeling Earthquake Seismology
Min Sung Kim, Space-Time Curvature of Unusual Metrics
Vanessa Logan, Weight and Strength Dependency in Cheerleading Stunts
Danielle Shepherd, Drivers Start Your Engines: A Comparison of the Forces on Race Cars and Toy Cars
Prakrit Shrestha, Causal Dynamical Triangulation in Three Dimensions: Tiling Spacetime with Tetrahedrons
Deepika Sundarraman, The Manipulation of Photon Spatial Wave Function by Polarization and Parity
Ian Wilson, The Effect of Surface Roughness on the Magnus Force

2012 Fall

Theresa Albon, Plantar Force Distribution for Increasing Heel Height Within Women's Shoes
Lorenzo Dumancas, Stochastic Resonance in a Bistable Mechanical System
Tyler Rhoades, Exploring Electromagnetic Acceleration of Rail Guns
Michael-Erik Ronlund, Modeling Brownian Motion with Elastic Collisions
Syne Salem, Chaos in the Stadium Quantum Billiards
Matt Schmitthenner, Modeling the Duffing Equation with an Analog Computer
Philip Wales, Effect of the Orientation of a Magnetic Field on the Resistance of a YBCO Superconductor

2012 Spring

Dan Axe, Observing Sound Waves in a One-dimensional Acoustic Metamaterial
Andrew Sopher, Force Induced on the Brain by Heading Soccer Balls
Tom Gilliss, Simulating a Magnetized Bead Pile
Lily Christman, Modeling Geophysical Waves with Gelatin
Duncan Price, Shear-Thickening Fluid
Andrew Blaikie, The Gravitational Potential Between Two Line Segments
Karl Smith, Querying Qubits Creates Quantum Computers
Sam Mermall, Three Dimensional Motion Tracking from Stereo Video

2011

Mohammad Saif Ahmad, Bend It like Magnus: Simulating Soccer Physics
Patrick Butler, A Brief Study of Spherical Ballistics and the Magnus Effect
Matt Damon, Shake, Shake, Shake Tacoma
Norman Israel, Two Dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulation
Larry Markley, //: Beyond the Plane
Alyse Marquinez, Splish Splash: Modeling Diving
Katsuo Maxted, Magnetic Field Complexity for Current-carrying Toroidal Coils
Margaret Raabe, Comparing the Performance of Baseball Bats
Kemal Ramic, X-ray structural analysis: Bragg reflection and Laue diagrams
David Simpson, Optical Observations of SOMS

2010

Louisa Catalano, Superconductivity
Roger Klein, Determining the Critical Temperature of a YBa₂2Cu₃O₇ Superconductor at Varying Currents Using a Four-Point Probe
Amanda Logue, A Non-Morphological Method to Isolate Red Spiral Galaxies
Alex Saines Holography: A Swan of One Color
Alex Sullivan, Aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil

2009

Corwin Atwood-Stone, /. 3D
James Rob Daniels, Separation of Glass Spheres from Silver Coated Glass Spheres
Alison Huff, Coulomb Balance
Heather Moore, Verifying Ampere's Law and Determining the Permeability of Free Space
Ingrid Thvedt, Indirectly Exploring the Inner Structure of Spherulites
Mike Winters, Musical Mapping of Chaotic Attractors
- The music files for Fig. 8 , Fig. 9, Fig. 10, Fig. 11, Fig. 12, and Fig. 13 are available here.

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

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