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As you walk through the Science Building or drive around campus, you will see the results of hard work completed or ongoing by physics students at Thiel College.  Students have performed research in many different areas at the forefront of modern science. 

The following projects and publications have been produced by faculty and students within the last ten years.  For further information about any of these projects, please contact either Dr. M. Bacon or Dr. P. Hecking.

PUBLICATIONS   (Underlined indicates student)

· P. C. Hecking,  "Energy Ambiguity and the Inductive Rail Oscillator ", The Physics Teacher, Vol. 45, Oct. 2007, 445-449 (2007)

· M.E.Bacon,  "How balls roll off tables", Am. J. Phys., 73(8), 722-724  (August 2005)

· M.E.Bacon and Do Dai Nguyen,  "Real World Damping of a Physical Pendulum", Eur. J. Phys., 26, 651-655, (2005)

· M.E.Bacon,  "A Comparison of Electrostatic and Filtered air Collection of Radon Progeny", Eur. J. Phys., 25, 239-248, (2004)

· M.E.Bacon, Michael R. Harpst and Ryohei Nakazawa, "Falling Sticks and Falling Balls", The Physics Teacher, 40, 333-335, (September 2002)

· M.E.Bacon, George Heald and Matt James, "A Closer Look at Tumbling Toast", Am. J. Phys., 69 (1), 38-43 (March 2001)

· M. E. Bacon , Bill Stevenson and C. G. Stafford Baines, "Impulse and Momentum Experiments Using Piezo disks" Am. J. Phys, 66 (5), 445-448 (May, 1998)

· Bill Stevenson and M. E. Bacon, "More on Falling Toast" The Physics Teacher, 35, 484-485 (Nov. 1997)

· C. G. Stafford Baines and M. E. Bacon, "Note on Using Computer Simulations in Teaching Introductory Digital Electronics", Computers In Physics, 11, 116 (1997).

· M. E. Bacon, R. M. Wick, and P. Hecking, "Heat, Light, and Videotapes: Experiments in Heat Conduction Using Liquid Crystal Film"., Am. J. Phys. 63, 359 (1995).

· P. Hecking and M. E. Bacon, "Attractive Force and Residual Magnetism in AgO-Doped and Non-Doped YBCO", Physica C, 182, 52 (1991).

· P. Hecking and M. E. Bacon, "Power Dependence of Magnetic Force vs. Distance for a Ya-Ba-Cu-O Superconductor", Modern Phys Letters, B5, 237 (1991).

· M. E. Bacon, R. N. Campbell, P.F. Cunningham and M. M. Michaelis, "Refractive Fringe Diagnostics of Sparks in Air", J. Appl. Phys. 66, 1075 (1989).

· M. A. Day, M.S. Varga, M. E. Bacon and D. F. Edwards, "Window Heating by a Pulsed Laser", Applied Optics, 26, 10 (1987).

· M.E. Bacon, W. J. Johnson and M.Day, " Experiments in Differential Light Scattering of Fluids", Eur. J. Phys, 7, 259 (1986).

· M. E. Bacon and M. Varga, "Apparatus for Intensity Measurements of Interference Patterns", Am. J. Phys., 53, 599 (1985).

PATENTS (Underlined indicates student)

1. "Self Contained Electromechanical Locking Device", M. E. Bacon, Scott W. Morneweck, Roger Keith and Arvin B. Simon. US patent 4,901,545, Feb. 20 (1990)

2. "Compact Disc Lifting Device", Donald Hummel and Michael Bacon. US patent 5,195,794, March 23 (1993)