2018 Joint Spring Meeting of the Texas Sections of APS, AAPT, and Zone 13 of the SPS
Volume 63, Number 8
Thursday–Saturday, March 22–24, 2018;
Stephenville, Texas
Session Index
Session C1: AAPT Workshop W3: Using TIPERs in Your Physics Classes
Chair: Steve Kanim, Tom O'Kuma, New Mexico State; Lee College
Room: Science 236
Session C2: AAPT Workshop W4: Performance Based Labs
Chair: Stephanie Ingle, Lee College
Room: Science 235
Session C3: AAPT Workshop W5: The Physics of Metallurgy, Environment, and Corrosion
Chair: Evelyn Restivo, Waxahachie Global STEM ECHS
Room: Science 234
Session C4: AAPT
Chair: James Espinosa, Weatherford College
Room: Science 109
Friday, March 23, 2018
2:30PM - 2:42PM
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C4.00001: Physics Teachers of the Nineteenth Century
Jill Marshall
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Friday, March 23, 2018
2:42PM - 2:54PM
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C4.00002: Applying Ampere's Force Law to Jacob's Ladder
Basel Hamad, James Espinosa
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Friday, March 23, 2018
2:54PM - 3:06PM
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C4.00003: Examination of Course Alignment Using Simulated Students
Jonathan Perry, Tatiana Erukhimova, William Bassichis
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Friday, March 23, 2018
3:06PM - 3:18PM
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C4.00004: Initial Student Reactions to In-House Videos for Lab Instruction
Lionel Hewett
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Friday, March 23, 2018
3:18PM - 3:30PM
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C4.00005: Ring Model Applied to the Precession of Mercury
Tanner Farley, James Espinosa
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Friday, March 23, 2018
3:30PM - 3:42PM
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C4.00006: Teaching Graduate Electrodynamics Interactively: A Report from the Trenches.
David Donnelly
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Friday, March 23, 2018
3:42PM - 3:54PM
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C4.00007: Student Perceptions of GlowScript Blocks Computational Activities in Introductory Mechanics
Kushal Das, Hunter Close
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Friday, March 23, 2018
3:54PM - 4:06PM
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C4.00008: A Review of Jeffrey's Arguments against Plate Tectonic Theory
Gissell Obregon, James Espinosa
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Session C5: SPS Talks
Chair: Michael Hibbs, Tarleton State University
Room: Science 105
Friday, March 23, 2018
2:30PM - 2:42PM
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C5.00001: The Twisted Future of Linear Actuators
Michael Lynn
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Friday, March 23, 2018
2:42PM - 2:54PM
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C5.00002: A Photometric Study of Eclipsing Binary Stars
Skyler Self, Chloe Lanning
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Friday, March 23, 2018
2:54PM - 3:06PM
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C5.00003: Bragg's Law and Diffraction
Linda Hughes
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Friday, March 23, 2018
3:06PM - 3:18PM
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C5.00004: Simulating the Precession of Venus
Pradeep Ojha, Krista Chanaritthichai, Nathan Redmon, James Espinosa
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Friday, March 23, 2018
3:18PM - 3:30PM
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C5.00005: Stable Orbits for Exomoons in Earth's Cousin (Kepler-452b) Orbiting a Sun-like Star
Niyousha Davachi, Marialis Rosario-Franco, Sergio Garza, Zdzislaw Musielak
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Session C6: APS III - Condensed Matter & Nano Science
Chair: Bimal Pandey, Tarleton State University
Room: Science 102
Friday, March 23, 2018
2:30PM - 2:42PM
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C6.00001: Stability prediction and electronic properties study of silicon-rich silicon carbide
Noura Alkhaldi, Muhammad N. Huda
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Friday, March 23, 2018
2:42PM - 2:54PM
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C6.00002: Dual Beam MOKE Detection to Suppress the Effect Of Modulated Interference Effects In PEM
Shankar Acharya, Brian Collier, Abdul Ahad Talukder, Wilhelmus Geerts
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Friday, March 23, 2018
2:54PM - 3:06PM
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C6.00003: Several Approaches to Realistic Dynamical Simulations in Advanced Materials
Michael Tagaras, Jian Weng, Roland Allen
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Friday, March 23, 2018
3:06PM - 3:18PM
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C6.00004: Low-energy electron irradiation on multi-layers graphene
John Femi-Oyetoro, Runtian Tang, Ashley Mhlanga, Phillip Ecton, Guido Verbeck, Jose Perez
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Friday, March 23, 2018
3:18PM - 3:30PM
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C6.00005: Photocurrent improvisation of BiVO$_{\mathrm{4}}$ photocatalyst by electronic structure engineering via Nb doping
Hori Pada Sarker, Muhammad N Huda
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