Wooster Physics Senior Theses
2021
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Mili Barai, Measuring properties of entangled photons using the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect
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Megan Fisher, Creating an Event Horizon Analogue using the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
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Yuchen Gan, Free-Fall Spinning-Planet Tunnel Transportation Network
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Daniel (Dani) Halbing, The Effect of Varying Paneling Characteristics on Soccer Ball Flight
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Mattaeus (Matt) Klonowski, Understanding the Swelling Mechanism of Stimuli Responsive Organically-Modified Silica
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Craig Klumpp, A Case of Heartburn: Replicating the Heart’s Electrical Signals with Fire
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Andrew Kunkel, Examining Light-Matter Interactions Through Two Photon Entanglement
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Gentaro Nakata, Propellant-less Space Travel with Tethers: Swimming in Space using an Asteroid’s Gravity Gradient
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Carlos Owusu-Ansah, The trajectory of an Anisotropic Particle Near a Light-Transmitting Optical Nanofiber
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Katherine (Katie) Shideler, Energy Conservation: Harnessing Excess Thermal Energy and Converting to Electricity by Use of the Thermoelectric Effect
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Handeul Son, Investigation of Fire Propagation using Discrete Tree Simulations
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Henry Whyte, Avalanches on a Conical Bead Pile
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Yang (Fish) Yu, Alien Sunsets on Tumbling Asteroids
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Xinchen (Ariel) Xie, Exoplanets Sunsets
2020
2019
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Hwan (Michelle) Bae, Watching Sunsets in Exoplanet Skies
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Daniel Blaikie, Propagation of Light-Sensitive Reaction-Diffusion Waves in Inhomogeneously Illuminated Systems
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Carson Bullock, Orbital Debris Proliferation and the Evolution of the Space Sustainability
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Haidar Esseili, Spacetime Engineering: Time-Slowing Space-Expanding Lunchbox
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Chase Fuller, Spiraling into Control: Spiral Density Wave Structure of GAIA DR2 Galactic Radial Velocities
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Wan Hang (Vincent) Hui, Determining the Accuracy of GALFIT in Morphology Measurement of Galaxies from Image Analysis
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Ben (Benji) Jenkins, The Decomposition and Analysis of the NGC720 Galaxy
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David Morrow, An Investigation of Angle of Repose and Surface Activity of a Conical Bead Pile
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Samuel (Sam) Nash, Using Belousov-Zhabotinsky Waves as an Analogue to the Event Horizon of a Black Hole
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Joseph (Joe) Theiss, Slope’s Effect on Discrete Tree Fire Simulations
2018
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Emma Brinton, Exploring the Dynamics of a Small Dielectric Sphere Due to the Higher-Order Modes of an Optical Nanofiber
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Gabriel Dale-Gau, Employing a system of pressure sensors to characterize avalanche dynamics over a conical bead pile
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Collin Hendershot, Attacking the Curve: A study of the effect of concavity on aerodynamic forces associated with high speed automobiles
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Kyle McNickle, A Visual Investigation of Criticality: Avalanche Classification on a Conical Bead Pile
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Jack Mershon, Modified Propagation of Anomalous Belousov-Zhabotinsky Waves in a Quasi-1D System
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Nathaniel Moore, Local Analogues: Comparing the 12-inch Telescope to the Hubble
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Nathaniel Smith, A Computational Simulation of Belousov-Zhabotinsky Wave Behavior Around Obstacles
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Zane Thornburg, An Investigation into the Lambert-Beer Law in Incoherent Broad-band Cavity-Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy
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Avi Vajpeyi, Studying Universality with Physics Engines: Accelerating Granular Flow on GPU with OpenCL and CUDA
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Justine Walker, Dancing Our Way to the Cosmos: A Study in How Extraterrestrial Travel Will Change the Mechanics of Dance
2017
2016
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Michael Bush, A Comparative Analysis of Photon and Electron Wave Functions in Spherically Symmetric Potentials
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Mitch Gavin, Building a Setup to Investigate Reaction-Diffusion-Advection Systems
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Laura Grace, Period Doubling in Bubbling from a Submerged Nozzle
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Colm Hall, Nonlinear Dynamics Analysis of Stellar Data Sets
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Nate Johnson, Charge Carrier Characteristics of Doped Semiconductor Heterostructures
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Spencer Kirn, Excitation Waves in Planar, Inhomogeneously Illuminated Systems
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Drew King-Smith, Manipulation of Polarized Transverse Spatial Modes to Induce Non-Linear Structures using the Geometric Phase
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Matt King-Smith, Analog Quantum Simulator
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Maggie Lankford, The Production and Manipulation of Hybrid Spin-Orbit Modes of Light Under Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference Conditions
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Yash Lohia, Modal Analysis of Light Propagating Through Structurally Disturbed Optical Fibers
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Noah Megregian, Stochastic Resonance in a Mechanical Bistable System
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Calvin Milligan, Strange Nonchaotic Pendulum
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Diego Miramontes Delgado, Creating Quasi Two-Dimensional, Curved Molds with 3D-printing Technology
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Paroma (Popi) Palchoudhuri, An Experimental and Mathematical Study of Avalanche Behavior in a Critical Conical Bead Pile
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Graham Schattgen, Air Powered One-Way Arrays
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Nate Stone, Critical Systems: An Exploration of Cohesion and the Moments of Distribution
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Catherine Tieman, A Simulation of Phases in the Pyrochlore Lattice
2015
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Shawn Bowman, Modeling the Optical Emission Line Profiles of Active Galactic Nuclei: Working Towards a Continuous Optical Classification Scheme Beyond Type1/Type2
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Nicolae Istrate, Theoretical Resonance Calculations for the Isobaric Analogs 133Sn and 133Sb
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Evan Hagedorn, Understanding the Origin of Swelling Force in Organically Modified Silica
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Min Sung Kim, Stopping Power Analysis of 37K, 44Cl, and 71Br Incident on a He: CO2 (9:1) Gas Target
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Brian Maddock, Modifying the Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude to Correspond to the Glueball Trajectory
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Saul Propp, Relativistic Perturbations and Ontological Implications: Exploring the Zitterbewegung and Laying the Groundwork for a Quantum Ontology
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Jairaj Ranchod, Archimedes Drill Propulsion
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Joseph Smith, Topological Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals and the Behavior Induced by Adding Polystyrene Microspheres to 5CB
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Amanda Steinhebel, Solitons and Their Symmetries: A Mathematical Analysis
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Elliot Wainwright, Avalanches on a Critical Conical Bead Pile: Exploration of Tuning Parameter Space and Mathematical Foundations
2014
2013
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Theresa Albon, The Entanglement and Relaxation of Liquid Crystal Shaped Granular Media
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Dan Axe, Effects of Temperature on the Expansion Force of Osorb®
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Andrew Blaikie, //
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Lily Christman, The Effects of a Magnetic Field On a Conical Bead Pile
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Lorenzo Dumancas, Optimization of BEEM Techniques Through the Analysis of GaN Nanowires and Au: GaAs
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Tom Gilliss, Manipulation of Transverse Photonic Degrees of Freedom Via Classical and Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference
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Sam Mermall, The Motion of a Flapping Flag: Chaos or Noise?
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Duncan Price, Liquid Body Armor and Shear Thickening Fluids
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Tyler Rhoades, Differential Photometry of Transiting Exoplanets
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Michael-Erik Ronlund, Sorting Spacial Wavefunctions of Photons By Parity
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Syne Salem, Spacetime: Engineering and Metaphysics
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Matt Schmitthenner, A Theoretical and Experimental Pattern Analysis of Electrohydrodynamic Convection in a Liquid Crystal System
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Karl Smith, Electrons Aligned and Felines Undefined: Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics and Perturbing the Spin-Orbit Interaction in Electrons
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Andrew Sopher, Head For Safety: A quantitative analysis of headgear effectiveness in soccer
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Philip Wales, ξ.
2012
- Mohammad Saif Ahmad, Parity-based Measurement and Control of the Spatial Wave Function of Photons
- Patrick Butler, Air Drag and External Ballistics
- Matt Damon, Progress toward Using an Optical Tweezer to Make Scattering-based Size Measurements
- Norman Israel, Quantum Gravity: Exploring the Causal Dynamical Triangulation Approach
- Sarah-Beth Loder, Experimentally and Computationally Determining the Theoretical Aqueous pKa of Three UV-absorbing Benzophenone Derivatives
- Alyse Marquinez, The Rocket Science Behind the Political Science: Comparing Space Visions fo the Presidents from 1993-2011 and the Rocket Technology That Helped Characterize Them
- Katsuo Maxted, A Cyclic Aero-mechanical Array of One-way Coupled Oscillators
- Larry Markley, Perturbing Spacetime
- Margaret Raabe, Manipulation of a Photon's Spatial Wave Function in Optical Fibers
- Kemal Ramic, Monte Carlo Simulations of the Clumpy Torus in Active Galactic Nuclei
- David Simpson, Analysis of the Correlation Length Amplitude of Nitrobenzene and Dodecane Binary-Fluid Solution
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
- Mike Davis,
An Investigation of Dielectric Permittivity as Related to Concentration in Mixtures of 7CB and MBBA
- Stephen Poprocki,
Bayesian Source Direction Determination for Gravitational-Wave Bursts
- Jon Rosch,
The Effects of Compression on Conducting Spheres as They Pertain to Studying Granular Percolation
- Danny Shai,
Monte Carlo Studies of the Globally-Coupled Ising Model
- Sarah Suddendorf,
Good to the Last Drop: Percolation Through Hypercubic and Random Lattices for Integer, Fractional, and Fractal Dimensions
- Danny Tremblay,
Creation of a Two-Dimensional Negative-Index-Material
- Nathan Utt,
Heat Capacity Anomaly in a Nitrobenzene+Dodecane Mixture
- Lisa May Walker,
Spacetime Whirlpools
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
- Darwin Keith-Lucas,
η: An experiment measuring the turbidity of the binary fluid
methanol-cyclohexane, determining the elusive exponent η
- Ali Özgenç,
The Kinetics of Fatty Acid and Phospholipid Solid Self Assembly
- Salman Saeed,
Frequency Dependence of the Modulated Phase in 5CB
- Cyrus Screwvala,
The Chaotic Tumbling of Hyperion: Moon of Saturn
1995
- Ronald Craig,
Flexoelectric Effect in the Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB (4-cyano-4'-n-pentylbiphenyl)
- Anne Flewelling,
Phase Transitions in a Monolayer of Phospholipids: Using the Langmuir Balance Technique
- Paul Hall,
The Turbidy of the Binary Fluid Mixture Methanol-Cyclohexane Near the Critical Point: the Measurement of the Fisher Critical Exponent η
- Priyavadan Mamidipudi,
Effects of Magnetic Fields on the Modulated Phase of 5CB
- Andrew Martin,
An Automated Analysis of Swimming Behavior in Paramecium Tetraurelia
- Jared Ripps,
An Investigation into the Structure of Agarose Using Laser Light Scattering
1994
- William Antel,
Chaotic Dynamics on Rippled Surfaces
- John Cuff,
Electric-Field-Induced Freedericksz Transition in the Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB
- Rohan Defonseka,
Measurement of the Heat Capacity Anomaly of the Binary Fluid System Triethylamine-Water Near the Critical Solution Point Using Adiabatic Calorimetry
- Michael Hunter,
Spatiotemporal Chaos on a Sphere of Duffing Oscillators
- Stephen Nichols,
Study of the Effects of an Electric Field on Agarose Gel by Neutron Scattering
1993
- Joshua Fagans,
The Fourth Dimension Unveiled:
A Preliminary Reconnaissance of Four Dimensional Objects from Mathematics and Physics
- Peter Hourigan,
New Nematic-Smectic-A Transition Instability in Di-Heptyl-Alkyl Azoxybenzene Liquid Crystal Focusing on Anchoring Breaks and Transitions
- Nikfar A. Khaleeli,
Adiabatic Calorimetry Measurement of the Heat Capacity of the Binary Fluid Triethylamine-Water Near the Critical Point
- Asad Khan,
The Chaotic Behavior of a Single-Mode Semiconductor Injection Laser Coupled with an External Feedback Cavity
- Linda D. King,
An Investigation of the Excess Volume Effect of the Binary Liquid Mixture Perfluoromethylcyclohexane + Isopropyl Alcohol
- Taka Kumashiro,
Quantum Metaphysics: A Dialogue in Search of Knowledge
- Christopher J. Levy,
Self-Organized Criticality in a Conical Sandpile
- Mark McKinney,
Chaos in Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals
- Joseph Neff,
Signal Recognition Using Chaos and Control Algorithms
1992
1991
- Richard C. Bailey,
A Study of Electro-Optic Properties of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals as a Function of Sample Curing Time
- Mark L. Bricker,
A Dynamic Light Scattering Study of a Nematic Liquid Crystal in the Presence of a Magnetic Field
- Alice D. Churukian,
Chaos in a Dripping Water Faucet
- Karl A. Crandall,
Determining the Bend Elastic Constant of the Liquid Crystal Di-Heptyl-Alkyl Azoxybenzene (Using Freedericksz Transition)
- Douglas A. Halverson,
A New Method for the Experimental Investigation of Self-Organized Criticality
- Andrew O. Mellinger,
Multiple Time Dimensions
- Victor T. Norton,
The Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction:
a computer simulated study of bromate oscillators and autocatalysis
- Jonathan F. Partee,
Adiabatic Calorimetry Measurement of the Heat Capacity of Triethylamine-Water Near the Critical Point
- Thomas M. Taczak,
BumperPool: A New Region for Chaotic Billiards
1990
1989
1988
- Supratik Burman,
An Analysis of the Wave/Particle Nature of Statistically Independent Photons
- Sergio DeSouza-Machado,
A Computer Simulation Study of Deterministic Dissipative Systems Exhibiting Chaotic Behavior
- Gregory D. Elfring,
An Introduction to Fractal Geometry and its Applications
- Todd Ewers,
Observation of Phase Transitions in Ceramics, Cyclobutanes, and Cycloheptanes by DSC Methods
- Vonda Fairbanks,
The Excess Volume Effect of Methanol-Cyclohexane in the One-Phase Region
- Ashok Mittal,
A Study of Brownian Motion Using Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
- Palani Sakthivel,
Coefficient of Expansion of a Thin Aluminum Film
- Stephen G. Stafford,
Turbidity Measurements in the Near Critical Region for the Binary Mixture Polystyrene Diethyl Malonate
1987
- Kevin P. Andrews,
The Coexistence Curve of the Binary Fluid Triethylamine-Water
- John B. Fanselow,
Adiabatic Calorimetry Measurement of the Heat Capacity of a Near Critical Binary Fluid
- Scott R. Gunselman,
The Physics of a Racquetball Racquet: The Sweet Spot
- Daniel O. Hogenboom,
A Study of Brownian Motion Using Light Scattering
- Ashok Mittal,
A Study of Brownian Motion Using Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
- Terrence B. Khoo,
A Study of the Proper Order Parameter for Binary Liquid Mixtures
- Mike LaVilla,
Cyclic Voltammetry Study of the Vitamin B12 Complex TRNS-Aqua Cobalt III
- Scott P. McLean,
A Biomechanical Analysis of the Power Generating Phases of the Front Crawl Stroke
- George F. Miller,
A Technique for Determining the Contact Time of a Golf Club-Ball Collision and its Relationship to Club Velocity
- Eric Parker,
High Resolution Stand-Alone Video Processor
- Anna C. Ploplis,
Turbidity of Polystyrene-Diethylmalonate Near the Critical Point
1986
- Solomon Ngubane,
Heat Capacity of a Binary Fluid Mixture: Methanol-cyclohexane
1985
- Bill Andrew,
A Test of the Lorentz-Lorenz Relation in an Isobutyric Acid and Water Binary Fluid
- Charles Partee,
Heat Capacity of a Binary Fluid
- Raheel J. Rae,
Automated Classification of Stellar Spectra
- Kent A. Thurston,
An Analysis of Optical Spectra of Cataclysmic Variable H2252-35
1984
- Polly Groth,
Empirical Strain Modeling in California: Use of Very Long Baseline Interferometry
- Douglas A. Iams,
An Analysis of Simultaneous Optical and Ultraviolet Spectra of SCO X-1
- Polly Wardwell,
The Coexistence Curve of Methanol-Isooctane
1983
- Robert Cohn,
Effects of Acetone Impurity in a Near-Critical Mixture of Methanol and Cyclohexane
- Jeffrey B. Parker,
The Design and Testing of an Apparatus for the Measurement of the Ultrasonic Properties of Liquids
1982
- Arvind Ahuja,
Thermal Expansion of Bovine Femur as a Function of Temperature
- Steven E. Hoell,
Photographic Studies of Vortex Dynamics in HE II
- Ann Mowery,
Light Scattering in a Near-Critical Binary Fluid Mixture
- Lori Pederson,
An Investigation of the Heat Capacity of the Binary Fluid Mixture Nitroethane-3-Methylpentane Near its Critical Point