2008 Joint Spring Meeting of the Texas Sections of APS, AAPT, and Zone 13 of SPS
Volume 53, Number 1
Thursday–Saturday, March 6–8, 2008;
Corpus Christi, Texas
Session Index
Session SPS1: High School and Undergraduate Student Research I
Chair: Dan Suson, Purdue University at Calumet
Room: Omni Corpus Christi Hotel Marina Tower Padre B
Friday, March 7, 2008
10:30AM - 10:42AM
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SPS1.00001: Using SPS at the Community College Level to Develop a Science Road Show to Present to K-12 Schools
Jess T. Dowdy
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Friday, March 7, 2008
10:42AM - 10:54AM
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SPS1.00002: Forces and the Potential Energy Function for a Bow-and-Arrow System
Ken Taylor, Blaine Coutant, Tatum Crow, Austin James
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Friday, March 7, 2008
10:54AM - 11:06AM
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SPS1.00003: How to Use a Bed of Nails to Facilitate Excitement during a Science Road Show Presentation at Local Schools
Fabian Pena, Shawn Kridler, Pete Berger
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Friday, March 7, 2008
11:06AM - 11:18AM
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SPS1.00004: How much sun does sunblock block?
Jennifer Hendryx
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Friday, March 7, 2008
11:18AM - 11:30AM
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SPS1.00005: Synthesis of porous silicon on a p-type substrate using a non-contact method
Kristin Peterson, Toni Sauncy, Tim Dallas, Mark Grimson
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Friday, March 7, 2008
11:30AM - 11:42AM
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SPS1.00006: Fluid Resistance Studies with an Atwood Machine
Ken Taylor, Omar Aragon, Russell Braun, Ellias Fessahaie
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Friday, March 7, 2008
11:42AM - 11:54AM
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SPS1.00007: Stripes or Bubbles in the N=2 Landau Level: A DMRG Study
Candice Withrow, Barry Friedman, Lauren Rod
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Friday, March 7, 2008
11:54AM - 12:06PM
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SPS1.00008: Temperature dependence of photoluminescence from a strained InGaAs/GaAs quantum well
Meagan Saldua, Toni Sauncy
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Session SPS2: High School and Undergraduate Student Research II
Chair: Wayne Kinnison, Texas A and M Kingsville
Room: Omni Corpus Christi Hotel Marina Tower Riviera I
Friday, March 7, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM
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SPS2.00001: A Single Mother's Perspective of How High School Students Respond to her Interaction with the Science Road Show at Northeast Texas Community College
Ashley Hanson
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Friday, March 7, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM
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SPS2.00002: Quality Analysis and Control Procedures for the PHENIX RPC Forward Trigger Upgrade
Dillon Thomas
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Friday, March 7, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM
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SPS2.00003: Vibrational Modes on a PASCO Track
Ken Taylor, Geoff Dunham, Austin Levinton, Cameron Tyler-Vann
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Friday, March 7, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM
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SPS2.00004: Effect of Magnetic Dipole Moment on Magnet Forces
Ken Taylor, Ian Campbell, Matthew Mirochna, Robbie Stewart
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Friday, March 7, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM
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SPS2.00005: A Meter Stick Torsion Oscillator
Ken Taylor, Chris Atieno, Shannon O'Brien, Ben Stewart
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Friday, March 7, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM
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SPS2.00006: The Mystery of the Missing Baryons
Joseph Kish
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Friday, March 7, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM
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SPS2.00007: Phoenix Mars Mission and the Phoenix Student Interns Program
Ken Taylor, Matthew Gaba, Tony Xie
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