Physics

Overview: The MINERvA experiment, or Main INjector Experiment for v-A, is equipped to closely study neutrino interactions on a range of targets and improve uncertainties in neutrino interaction cross sections. Quasi-elastic neutrino cross sections are mathematically modeled using form factors, which are calculated from experiment. The axial form factor depends upon the axial mass, measured by earlier bubble chamber experiments as 1.026 ± 0.021 GeV. However, recent experiments have measured the axial mass...

Scope and Contents: This collection includes papers documenting Allan M. Cormack's professional life, beginning with his early career at the University of Cape Town. The bulk of the material originates from Cormack's years as a professor of physics at Tufts. The material includes correspondence; notes and calculations; experimental data; reports, manuscripts, preprints, and reprints; lectures; course material; overhead transparencies; photographs; and video footage of a television interview with Cormack. These...

Scope and Contents: A qualifying paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Science Education. Abstract: The purpose of this review is to identify the challenges facing secondary teachers of physics, to explore the most common instructional methods currently in use and to propose future research that will lean heavily on the use of peer collaboration to foster strong conceptual change. Through this review, I will argue that: (1) Strong conceptual change or...

Scope and Contents: This collection consists of Professor of Physics and Physics Chair Julian Knipp's papers, circa 1930-1988. Included are Physics class materials, circa 1960-1975, as well as notebooks from Professor Knipp's education and/or professorships at MIT, Purdue, and Iowa State College.

Scope and Contents: Paul Sabine describes how his early beliefs were fractured into those about physical realities and those about spiritual realities, but now he believes modern physics has given him the framework to harmonize his beliefs into a coherant whole.