Physics Honors Projects

2011

• Jennifer M. Schloss, Infrared Spectroscopy of Trapped Gases in Metal-Organic Frameworks
• Jaie C. Woodard, The Molecular Basis of Urea-Induced Protein Denaturation, studied through Molecular Dynamics Simulations and ab initio Calculations on the Alanine Dipeptide

2010

• Nathan J. Brown, Observations of the Wigner Quasi-Probability Distribution
• Michael S. Friedman, Infrared Spectroscopy of Adsorbed H₂ in an Isostructural Series of Metal Organic Frameworks
• Sarah K. Hoffman, Electroweak Unification as Classical Field Theory
• David H. Lesser, The Oberlin Millimeter Atmospheric Telescope
• William D. Striegl, Two-Photon Transitions in Potassium

2009

• Sean B. Bernfeld, Stabilization of a Femtosecond Laser Frequency Comb
• Benjamin M. Breslauer, Using Galaxy Simulations in an Attempt to Disprove Dark Matter
• Brian S. Burkholder, Catalysis of Conversion Between the Spin Isomers of H₂ by MOF-74
• Jesse B. Hopkins, Infrared Spectroscopy of H₂ Trapped in Metal Organic Frameworks
• Everett A. Schlawin, Radiative Transfer Models of the Galactic Center

2008

• Courtney R. Epstein, Through a Glass Darkly: Pulsar Imaging by the Intestellar Medium
• Patrick Landreman, An Acoustical Evaluation of the QRD Diffractal™ in Finney Chapel

2007

• James C. Atwood, A Novel Special Relativistic N-Body Simulation
• Michael J. Brown, Measurements of the Geomagnetic Field in the Antarctic Upper Atmosphere Using the Tracer Molecule ¹⁸O¹⁶O and Telescope Repair
• Wendeline B. Everett, General Relativity in the Limit as a Classical Field
• Daniel A. Hemberger, Improving Pulsar Timing through Interstellar Scatter Correction
• Gregory A. Howland, Woodwind Air Columns in the Time Domain

2006

• Hugh O. Churchill, Low-Temperature Infrared Spectroscopy of H₂ in Solid C₆₀
• Mark H. Stockett, Optical Properties of Thin Transparent Conducting Oxide Films on Glass for Photovoltaic Applications
• Robert J. Yatteau, Imaging the Normal Modes of a Tuned Handbell with Holographic Interferometry
  

2005

• Susannah M. Burrows, Polar measurements of mesospheric CO
• Michael D. Herbst, Nonlinear Optics and an Experimental Test of Bell’s Inequality
• Christie Simmons, The Quantum Dynamics of H₂ in a C₆₀ Lattice

2004

• Burton A. Betchart, A Test of Bell's Inequality for the Undergraduate Laboratory
• Karl E. Duderstadt, The Fundamental Efficiency of Osmotic Engines
• Alexander S. Hill, Probing the Interstellar Medium on AU Size Scales Using Pulsar Scintillation

2003

• Christopher V. Kelly, Magnetic Characterization of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized Via the Polyol Method
• Daniel F. Reeves, Pulsar Scintillation and the Interstellar Medium

2002

• Scott T. Forth, Induced Infrared Absorption of H₂ in C₆₀
• Jeremy S. Gaumer, Fabrication and Characterization of ZnO Thin Films for CIS Solar Cell Window Layers
• Marie T. Rinkoski, Gas Storage in C₆₀
• Timothy D. Wortherspoon, The WKB Approximation in Power-Law Potentials

2001

• Kathryn M. Becker, Time Variability of Scintillation Structure in Pulsar Secondary Spectra Over Twenty Years
• Mark A. Kramer, The Parabolic Arc Phenomenon in Scintillation from the Pulsar PSR 1133+16
• Gamaliel N. Lodge, The Tri-Linear Three Body Problem

1999

• Nathan C. Shaner, Total Reaction and 2n-Removal Cross Sections for 6-9,11Li on Pb

1998

• Scott S. Sheppard, The Effect of Deposition Pressure on Stress in Sputtered Molybdenum Thin Films

1997

• Joshua C. Kempner, Multi-Frequency Observations of Giant Pulses from the Pulsar PSR J0437-4715
• Naomi McClure-Griffiths, A Scintillation Study of the Eclipsing Pulsar PSR B1259-63

1996

• Brendan D. Field, Investigation of a Piezoelectric Disk Coupled to a Cylindrical Pipe
• Eric D. Miller, Deep R-Band Surface Photometry of NGC 891
• Edward B. Myers, Time Development of the Wavefunction of a Damped Quantized System
• Paul M. Voyles, CuInS₂ Thin Films for Solar Cell Absorber Layers

1995

• Jennifer R. Hampton, Complex Admittance Measurements of Thin-Film Polycrystalline Solar Cells
• Ashok Muthukrishnan, Electromagnetic Dissociation of ⁸B on ²⁸S

1994

• Daniel A. Butts, Monte Carlo Simulations of Phase Transitions
• Christine Lee Carpenter, Microscopic Predictions for the Reaction Cross Sections of Possible Halo Nuclei
• Michael Douglas Faison, Observations of Refractive and Diffractive Scintillation of the Pulsar PSR 0329+54
• Seth T. Johnson, Optical Character Recognition
• Jay F. Whitacre, A Study of Trap Structure in Polycrystalline Photovoltaic Cells Using Complex Admittance Analysis

1993

• Nicholas P. Borland, Temperature and Gate Voltage Dependence of Random Telegraph Switching in MOSFETs
• James T. Chapman, Refractive Imaging of the Pulsar PSR 1642-03
• Gary N. Felder, Distances Between Quantal States: A First Move Towards Examining Chaos in Quantum Mechanics
• Jonathan M. Fetter, Cross Sections for the Reaction α(α,³He)⁵He

1992

• M. Lenore Horner, Exploration of the Parameters t and U in the Tight-Binding, Single-Band Hubbard Model
• Afan J. Ottenheimer, Determination of Pulsar Dispersion Measures Using Multi-Frequency Microstructure Observations
• Robin E. Snyder, A Feasibility Study of Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments at the Soudan 2 Detector
• Willaim F. Waite, Prediction and Measurement of Total Nuclear Reaction Cross Sections

1991

• Daniel Alphonse Francis, Fluid Velocity Measurement Using Laser Doppler Velocimetry
• Matthew L. Trawick, Microstructure Dispersion for Three Pulsars
• Robert J. Orr, Reaction Probabilities and the Average Reaction Cross Section for 18 MeV to 32 MeV ⁶Li in Si

1990

• Timothy J. Collins, Chaos and the Restricted Three Body Problem
• Michael V. Keilman, Lyapunov Exponents (and Their Breakdown) in the One-Dimensional Logistic Map
• Nathan A. Schwadron, Thermal Noise in a Diode: A Generalization of Nyquist’s Theorem 

1989

• Keith M. Berland, The Reaction Cross Section for ⁶Li in Si at 17-23 MeV
• Stephen A. Klein, Classical Orbits and Quantal Degeneracy
• Joseph D. Peidle, Sieverts’ Law in the Palladium-Hydrogen System
• David Zelcer Rudner, In-Plane Displacement Measurements Using Laser Speckle Interferometry

1988

• David Ehrenstein, A Study of the Benade Piezoelectric Impedance Head
• David Galt, Explosive Amplification: A Mechanism for Galaxy Clustering
• Paul A. Kimoto, Duffing’s Equation and Period Doubling: A Study of a Nonlinear Oscillator
• Gail S. Welsh, Quantum Mechanics of Non-Coulombic Central Potentials

1987

• Mark Johnston, The Oberlin 4-meter Radio Telescope

1986

• Paul E. Robbins, Nonlinear Oscillations in Double-Diffusive Thermohaline Systems

1985

• John A. DiTusa, Coalescence as a Means for Explaining Anomalous Yields of Deuterons in Li(p,pd) Experiments
• Eric Christopher Hoffman, The Optical Excitation of Surface Plasmons on Thin Aluminum Films
• Simon G. Kaplan, Measures of Strangeness: Time Series Analysis of a Nonlinear Electrical Circuit
• Eric S. Megli, Stellar Evolution: Use of Sequence of Static Models to Approximate Stellar Evolution
• Elizabeth A. Norton, Some Cosmological Questions Leading to the Inflationary Universe
• Brian Vaughan, Directionality in Stimulated Emission: A Comparison of Approaches

1984

• Ben J. Bishoff, An Acoustic Stroboscope
• Iwan Pranata, Measurement of Lifetimes
• Sharon M. Ross, Looking for Order in Chaos

1983

• Kenneth I. Blumm, The Road to Chaos is Paved with Strange Attractors: An Investigation of the Behavior of a Driven Non-Linear Oscillator

1982

• Daniel R. McNeal, Model Stellar Interiors: Luminosities of Population I and Population II Stars
• Theodore B. Norris, Quantum Beat Experiments on Calcium

1981

• Robert Heingartner, The Measurement of the Specific Heat of Aluminum
• Matthew G. Weinstein, The Theory of Spontaneous Emission and Measurement of Atomic Excited State Lifetimes

1980

• Thomas Alan Barrett, Viewing the Sun with Oberlin's Radio Telescope
• William T. Conner, Building a Mass Spectrometer: Design, Operation, results and Difficulties
• Patricia Joanne Kurtz, X-Ray Crystallography: The Debye-Scherrer Method
• Bruce Alan Mason, The Wilson Cloud Chamber: Theory, Design and Operation

1979

• Anthony J. Mannucci, The Measurement of the Hyperfine Structure and Nuclear Spin of ³⁹K
• Stephen Lyon Palfrey, The Scattering of Near-Resonance Light with a High Intensity Coherent Source
• Phillip J. Restle, Spectator Reactions Producing Four-Body Final States in the Reaction ⁶Li(³He,ατ)d
• Mark R. Showalter, A Report on the Oberlin Radio Telescope

1978

• David Groff,(Title Unknown)
• Donn Christopher Martin, Double Spectator Poles in ⁶Li(⁶Li,αdd)α and ⁶Li(⁶Li,ααd)d
• James Jiro Mori, Design and Almost Building of a Pulsed Nitrogen Laser
• Ann Judith Silversmith, Electron Trapping in Semiconductors
• George Martin Thurston, Considerations about a Theoretical Formalism for the Sliding Filament Theory of Muscle Contraction

1977

• Arthur Mark Howald, The Effects of Collisions on Atomic Line Profiles
• Aram Partizian, The Mössbauer Effect
• Spencer Woodlief Thomas, Computer Generation of Holograms
• Carolyn Wolfe, Noise and the Biomembrane

1976

• Margaret Cheney, (Title Unknown)
• Robert David Feldman, Initial and Final State Interactions in ²H(d,pp)nn
• Wayne Clark Lemley, Near-Resonant Scattering in Atomic Vapors
• Francis L. Stephenson, Precession Theory of the Origin of the Geomagnetic Field
• Lynne D. Talley, Linear Magnetic Birefringence
• Terje Graham Vold, Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics 

1975

• Paul E. Bigeleisen, Raman Spectroscopy
• Howard Charles Brayman, The Optical Pumping of Rubidium

1974

• Stephanie DiCenzo, Final State Interactions in the Reaction d(d,pp)nn
• James Philip Eisenstein, Some Problems in Quantum Theory
• Gillis Robert Otten, A Study of the Formation of Spectral Lines in Stellar Atmospheres

1973

• Louis Buchholtz, Construction of a Pulsed Molecular-Nitrogen Laser
• Richard Jacob Katz, Construction of a Pulsed Molecular-Nitrogen Laser
• Richard London, Observations of the Earth’s Electric Field

1972

• Robert Leslie Clair, Observation of the Photospheric Oscillations with the 7699Å Fraunhofer Line

1971

• Larry Allen Wilson, K-K collision Cross Sections

1970

• Glenn Richard Flierl, The d(³He,dp)d Reaction
• Susan Mary Kelso, The p-p Final State Interaction in the Reaction ³He(d,tp) p
• Kenneth Edward Louden, Observation of the Solar 7699Å Fraunhofer Line with an Atomic Beam Spectrophotometer
• Gary Richard Smith, Measurement of the Differential Elastic Scattering Cross Section for Low-Energy Electrons in Argon Gas
• Paul Dana Vanas, A General View of Conduction in Metals

1969

• Brian Elliott Corey, Theory and Experiment in the Reactions ³He(d,pt)p and d(d,pd)n
• Paul Edwin Francis, The Transition of Indium from a Type I to a Type II Superconductor
• Eric Robert Wollman, The Impulse Approximation and Multiple-Scattering Corrections in the d(n,p)2n Reaction

1968

• William Henry Hartman, Macroscopic Theories of Superconductivity
• Roger Alan Smith, Stellar Models

1966

• David Burress, Theoretical Alpha-Deuteron Cross Section by Simple Approximations

1965

• Douglas Burt Clarke, The New Translator Computer Programs and an Analysis of Some Sample Distributions in Energy Physics
• Peter Hale Molnar, Angular Correlation of Successively Emitted Gamma Rays from Nickel-60
• Lynn Mary Olson, The Mössbauer Effect
• Philip Lentner Pritchett, High Energy Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering
• Herbert David Zeman, Absorption of Negative Mesons in Liquid Hydrogen

1964

• William Edward Cooper, The Mössbauer Effect
• Robert Alan Eisenstein, Angular Correlation of Successively Emitted Gamma Rays from Nickel-60
• Martin Charles Weisskopf, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
  

1962

• Frederick Russell Blattner, The Oberlin Cyclotron as of May 21, 1962

1961

• William Lee Faissler, Report on Cyclotron, 1960-1961
• W. Bruce Richards, Report on Cyclotron, 1960-1961