2009 Joint Spring Meeting of the Ohio Sections of the APS and AAPT
Volume 54, Number 3
Friday–Saturday, April 24–25, 2009;
Ada, Ohio
Session Index
Session C1: Physics Education and Mathematical Physics
Chair: Elizabeth George, Wittenberg University
Room: McIntosh Center Conference Room 7
Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:16AM - 8:28AM
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C1.00001: Impacting Marion City Schools' science program
Gordon Aubrecht
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:28AM - 8:40AM
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C1.00002: Global temperatures and the global warming ``debate''
Gordon Aubrecht
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:40AM - 8:52AM
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C1.00003: Developing Problems to Promote Real-World Transferrable Problem-Solving Skills
Kathleen A. Harper, Zachary S. Goldman, Chengeng Zeng, Richard J. Freuler, John T. Demel, Krista M. Kecskemety
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:52AM - 9:04AM
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C1.00004: Centrifugation and the Manhattan Project
Cameron Reed
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:04AM - 9:16AM
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C1.00005: Maxwell's Equations through the Major Vector Theorems
Josh Stoffel
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Session C2: Condensed Matter and Nanomaterials
Chair: Mellita Caragiu, Ohio Nothern University
Room: McIntosh Center Boardroom
Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:16AM - 8:28AM
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C2.00001: Theoretical description of the white lines in 3d transition metals
Kofi Nuroh
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:28AM - 8:40AM
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C2.00002: Dynamic Monte-Carlo Simulations of Diffusion in Polypropylenes: Possible Artifacts of Stereochemistry
Ernst von Meerwall, Numan Waheed, Wayne Mattice
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:40AM - 8:52AM
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C2.00003: Combined Zeeman and Aharonov-Bohm effects in a double quantum dot ring
Abigail Perkins, Eric Hedin, Yong Joe
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:52AM - 9:04AM
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C2.00004: Exploring the ferromagnetic phase diagram of Sb$_{2-x}$V$_{x}$Te$_{3}$ and Sb$_{2-x}$Cr$_{x}$Te$_{3}$ using hydrostatic pressure as an experimental variable
Jeffrey Dyck, Matthew Bowers, Yi-Jiunn Chien, Ctirad Uher, Cestmir Drasar, Petr Lostak
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:04AM - 9:16AM
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C2.00005: Monte Carlo Studies of Irreversibly Growing Droplets on Small-World Graphs
Howard Richards
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:16AM - 9:28AM
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C2.00006: Current-voltage characteristics of a compressed carbon nanotube
Evan Wilson, Ronald Cosby
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Session C3: Plasma Physics and Semiconductors
Chair: Terrence Sheridan, Ohio Nothern University
Room: McIntosh Center Ballroom
Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:16AM - 8:28AM
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C3.00001: Determination of Argon metastable density from relative emission intensity measurements combined with optical emission cross section data
Jared Miles, Steven Adams, Adam Laber, Boyd Tolson
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:28AM - 8:40AM
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C3.00002: Investigation of 1D to 2D phase transition in small dusty plasma
Andrew L. Magyar, T.E. Sheridan
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:40AM - 8:52AM
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C3.00003: Theory of two-stream plasma instabilities in graphene
Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, Antti-Pekka Jauho
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:52AM - 9:04AM
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C3.00004: Characterization of WB/SiC Schottky Barrier Diodes Using I-V-T Method
James Aldridge, Tom Oder
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:04AM - 9:16AM
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C3.00005: Improved n-type 4H-SiC Schottky Barrier Diodes Using Metal Boride Contacts
Rani Kummari, Tom Oder
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:16AM - 9:28AM
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C3.00006: Characterization of Epitaxial ZnO Films Grown Using Magnetron Sputtering
Tom Oder, Bijayandra Shakya, David Look
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Session C4: Gravity, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Chair: Sabine Jeschonnek, Ohio State University
Room: McIntosh Center Conference Room 202
Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:16AM - 8:28AM
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C4.00001: A Theoretical Value for the Newton Gravitation Constant from the GEM Unification Theory of Gravity and Electro-Magnetism
John Brandenburg
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:28AM - 8:40AM
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C4.00002: The Antibubble as a Casimir force Phenomenon and its Relation to ZPF Theories of Gravitation
John Brandenburg
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:40AM - 8:52AM
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C4.00003: Unified in theory? A theory of quantum gravity supported by the double slit experiment and sonoluminescence
Becky Brasfield
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:52AM - 9:04AM
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C4.00004: Electron Scattering from the Deuteron at GeV Energies
Sabine Jeschonnek, J.W. Van Orden
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:04AM - 9:16AM
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C4.00005: Lorentz symmetry tests with long-baseline neutrino experiments
Jorge S. Diaz, V. Alan Kostelecky, Matthew Mewes
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:16AM - 9:28AM
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C4.00006: Two-dimensional SYM theory with fundamental mass and Chern-Simons terms
Uwe Trittmann
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Session C5: Applied Physics and Biophysics
Chair: David Weeks, Air Force Institute of Technology
Room: McIntosh Center Activities Room
Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:16AM - 8:28AM
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C5.00001: A Wigner Distribution Analysis of Scattering Dynamics
David Weeks, Brent Lacy
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:28AM - 8:40AM
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C5.00002: A Heat Conduction Problem in Laser Ablation
William Fuller, Maria Raiti, Ronald Bush
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:40AM - 8:52AM
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C5.00003: Modeling the output of a TEA CO$_{2}$ laser
Daniel Crowder, Thomas Wilson
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
8:52AM - 9:04AM
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C5.00004: The Derivation of the Equation of the Damped Harmonic Oscillator from Lagrangian Methods with a Kaluza-Klein-like Hidden Dimension
John Brandenburg
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:04AM - 9:16AM
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C5.00005: Electron transport through asymmetric DNA molecules
Sunhee Lee, Eric Hedin, Yong Joe
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:16AM - 9:28AM
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C5.00006: All-or-none protein-like folding of a homopolymer chain
Mark Taylor, Wolfgang Paul, Kurt Binder
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:28AM - 9:40AM
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C5.00007: Transitions of a tethered chain under tension
Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann, Wolfgang Paul, Kurt Binder
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