Honors

The honors major involves at least eleven courses, including the four core courses
( Introductory Physics I , Introductory Physics II , Electrical Fields and Circuits , and Statistical Physics ), Methods of Theoretical Physics , Introductory Quantum Mechanics , and at least one semester (and typically two) of independent study in the form of an honors project.

Past Honors Projects

Ian Alexander Morrison '05 , "Black Hole - Neutron Star Binaries in General Relativity: Effects of Black Hole Rotation"

Riccardo Schmid '05 , "Phonon Propagation in GaN"

Jonelle Walsh '05 , "A Chandra Study of Abell 85"

William Lathrop Klemm '04 , "A Matrix Model Approach to the Calculation of Wilson Loops in SU(2) Gauge Theory"

Aaron Lee Donohoe '03 , "Biases in Inferred Inter-annual Variability of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide due to Selective Sampling of Transport Models"

George Taylor Hubbard, Jr. '03 , "Inferring Temperature Records from Phenology Data by means of Time Series Analysis"

Andrew Morris Knapp '03 , "The Quasi-Equilibrium Approximation for Binary Inspiral: Analytical and Numerical Model Calculations in Scalar Gravity"

Monica Lynn Skoge '03 , "Numerical Models of Black Hole-Neutron Star Binaries"

Nicholas David Lyford '02 , "The Effect of Differential Rotation on the Maximum Mass of Rotating Neutron Stars"

John Karl Thorndike '02 , "The Calculation of Wilson Loops Using the Abelian and Non-Abelian Stokes's Theorems"

Brian N. Mohr '01 , "Bolometric Phonon Detectors"

Patrick R. Thompson '01 , "AC Resistance and Thermal Relaxation Times in Nickel Wires"

Sean N. Raymond '99 , "Investigations of the Cosmological Constant"

Lauren G. Bernheim '98 , "Structural Analysis of a Rotating Spherical Truss"

Matthew M. Engler '98 , "Angular Correlation of Gamma Rays from the Nucleus 178Hf"

Jennifer Frese '98 , "Tidally Driven Internal Solitary Waves over Georges Bank"

Ellen O'Shaughnessy '98 , "Applying physical models to explore the mechanical behavior of mutable collagenous tissues"

John R. Pavan '98 , "Trajectories of Dilatons and Axions in a Brans-Dicke Background"

Tim Aron '96 , "Monte Carlo Modeling of Phonon Imaging Experiments"

Paul Lewis '96 , "Phonon Imaging Experiments"

Dave Stegman '96 , "An Investigation of Anomalously Low Backscatter from Certain Geometries of the Sea Floor"

Jonathan Dugan '95 , "Frequency Dependent Critical Field Properties of Superconducting Indium in a Restricted Geometry"

Shion Kono '95 , "Stability of Electroweak Strings with Fermions"

Masatoshi Hirono '94 , "Orbits in Celestial Mechanics"

Jason T. Breitweg '94 , "Angular Correlations of Scattered Annihilation Radiation from Positronium"

David Gatchell '93 , "Measurement of Multipole Mixing Ratios [(E2/M1) in the Determination of (gK-gR)/Qo] for the K[pi]=8-Rotational Band in Hf178m2"

Kevin Slep '93 , "An Investigation of Quasi one-dimensional Gallium Arsenide Circuits through the Analysis of an Optical analog"

MacKenzie Stetzer '93 , "A Determination of the Emissivity of Nickel Wire as a Function of Temperature"

Zema Chowdhuri '93 , "On the Magnetic Hysteresis of the Supercoductor NbTi"