Student Projects with M.L. West
In Spring 2000 in Astronomy 280 the projects were
- Relevance of Sunspot Numbers (Sean Clifford)
- The Lyrid Meteor Shower: April's Shower of Stars (Todd Estelle)
- Fiber-Optic Spectroscope (Richeall Kennedy)
- Constructing a
Radio Jove Telescope
to Monitor Jupiter (Lori Kiefer, Angela Kim, Charles Oliveri)
- Collecting Micrometeorites (Richard J. Kucera, Jr.)
In Fall 1999 independent study projects were
- Spectra with a Sivo Spectroscope (Richeall Kennedy)
- Seismograph Electronics and Analysis (Elias Ahadi)
- Foucault Pendulum (Brian Heinold)
- Supernovae Simulations (Bret Morgan)
In Fall 1998 in Computer Simulations of Physical Systems the projects were
- Geometry and Vibrations of PAHs by MacSpartanPlus (Elias Ahadi)
- Computer Simulation and Animation of a Magnetic Pendulum (Brian Heinold)
- The Four-well Magnetic Oscillator (Scott Merenda)
- The Capacitance of an Electroscope (Gil Reifler)
In Fall 1997 in Astronomy for science majors the projects were
- The Moon Illusion (Christine Campana)
- Celestial Navigation (Carl Carlson)
- The Orbits of the Moons of Jupiter (Philip Dressler)
- Velocity of Ejecta from Tycho (Ward Flynn)
- True North (Kathy Goldberg-Congden)
- The Mass of Saturn from Titan's Orbit (Brian Heinold)
- The Moon's Phases (Denis Kolenovic)
- Eclipse of Algol (Peter LaMonaca)
- Rotation Period of the Sun from Sunspots (Robert McCormack)
- Circumference of the Earth (Scott Merenda)
- Color Temperatures of the Stars in Cassiopeia (Jeanine Prendergast)
In Spring 1996 we were investigating in Mathematical Physics
- Series Approximations to Bessel Functions (Nelson Alonso)
- Nuclear Waste Disposal Methods (Eric Cameron)
- Hydrogen Atom Models of Bohr and Schrodinger (Carl Carlson)
- Holograms (Brian Dugdale)
- Computer Generated Ordering (Anthony Giampapa)
- Measurement of g by Dual Photogate Timer (Scott Merenda)
- Communication by Laser (Peter Musolino)
- Network Analysis of a Steam Generator (Lawrence Ramsey)
In spring 1996 there were also independent studies of
- Stability of Bicycles (Peter Feeney)
- Hurricane Interactions (Matthew Onken)
- Motions of Saturn's Moons (Jennifer Ayala)
In spring 1995 in "Mathematical Physics" I directed
- Vibrational-Rotational Spectra of HCl (Ahmad Al-Shawa)
- Motions of a Pendulum (Egbert Burke)
- Torsional Pendulum Decay (Peter Feeney)
- Hurricane Development Model (Matthew Onken)
- Complexity in the Orbit of a Perturbed Planet (Gabe Rivera)
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Last modified May 18, 2000