Projects From Previous Years (1995 – 2019)
Below is a list of physics Capstone projects that our students have successfully completed in the past as part of the senior seminar (PHY 492) class.
| Year | Students | Projects |
| 2019 | Corbin Flege | Testing Quantum Mechanics Using Pairs of Entangled Photons |
| 2018 | Bhavesh Ramkorun | Analyzing Lift, Drag and Pressure on a Conventional Airfoil |
| Dustin Watts | Magnetism in High-Entropy Alloys | |
| 2017 | Vincent Tembo | Verifying the BB84 Quantum Encryption Protocol Using Polarized Light |
| Abdul Ali Eissar | Determining Boltzmann’s Constant using Video Microscopy of the Brownian Motion of Polystyrene Microspheres |
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| Joseph A. Gehring III | Acoustic Resonances of a Circular Membrane | |
| Nathanael Bodine | The Growth of Epitaxial Nickel Thin Films on Silicon Wafers and the Result of Thermal Annealing on Epitaxial Nickel Thin Films | |
| Tanner Thompson | Observing the Converse Piezoelectric Effect in Rochelle Salts | |
| Mackenzie Ridley | Analysis of Non-Stoichiometric YBa2Cu3O6:5+δ Superconducting Material | |
| Kyaw Hpone Myint | The Effect of Charges on the Folding Pattern of Tryptophan Zipper (Beta-Hairpin): A Molecular Dynamic Study |
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| Denzell Barnett | Determination of the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion and Lattice Parameters of Graphene Using X-Ray Diffraction | |
| 2016 | Ricky Green | Using Gravity to Suspend a Flowing Chain of Beads in Midair |
| Nicholas Hubbard | The Effect of Kinematic Viscosity on the Angular Frequency of the Liquid Coil Drop Effect | |
| Dadbeh Shaddel | Constructing a Radio Telescope for Detecting the Jovian Decametric Radio Emissions | |
| Yhenew Kassie | Wireless Power Transmission via Magnetic Resonance Coupling | |
| 2015 | Preston Tucker | N.A. |
| Kyle Godbey | N.A. | |
| Brandon Schurter | N.A | |
| 2014 | Mackenzie Endres | An Experimental Exploration into Brownian Motion: Size Dependence and the Boltzmann’s Constant |
| Fidel Tewolde | Design of a Modified Cockcroft Walton Generator | |
| Danielle Schaper | On Phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Charge Density Waves in Dichalcogenides | |
| 2013 | Antonio Bill | Hertz Theory of Elasticity of Steel Balls By Free-Fall and Applied Pressure |
| Tommy Boykin | Granular Materials: Observing S-Systems through the use of Soda-Lime Beads | |
| Rohan Isaac | Chaotic Advection in a Blinking Vortex Flow | |
| Tyler Vanover | Construction of a Negative Ion Mode Linear Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer | |
| 2012 | Chris Yaluma | Application and Solutions of the Heat Equation |
| Hodari-Sadiki James | Super Massive Black Hole Mass Determination | |
| 2011 | William Norris | Chladni Lines |
| Emily Worinkeng | Energy States of A Gaussian Wavepacket in a Harmonic Oscillator | |
| Theint Theint | Basics of NMR | |
| Ramesh Adhikari | Scattering of Polarized Light in Optically Active Turbid Medium | |
| 2010 | Brandon Brown | A study of Discus Flight |
| Mohammed Humed Yusuf | Formulating a theory for the GSI anomaly | |
| Tenzin Ngodup | A study of X-ray diffraction | |
| Jimmy Rop | A Third Way to Solve the Quantum Harmonic Oscillator | |
| 2009 | Matthew Bailey | Investigating Blue Straggler Production through Binary Stellar Evolution |
| David Gilmour | Repair and Characterization of a Wimshurst Machine | |
| Brad Steele | Computer Modeling of the First Critical Reynold Number of Flow around a Two Dimensional Cylinder | |
| 2008 | Kannatassen Appavoo | Using photometric analysis to determine characteristics of the V-2491 NOVA |
| Shiblee Barua | Chaos and Stability in the Vicinity of a Jovian Planet | |
| 2007 | Patrick Mono | Properties of half-metal FeCoSi |
| Ni Ji | Modelling of stellar interior | |
| 2006 | Jason Lambert | Negative index of refraction |
| Michaela Conley | Chirality in nature | |
| 2005 | Peterkin Quagraine | Bose-Einstein condensation |
| Samuel B. McClure | Some properties of muons | |
| 2004 | Jacquelyn Hostler | The essentials of white dwarf |
| 2003 | Lydia Longstreth | Synchronization of two metronomes |
| Fredrick White | Laser holography | |
| Elisha Feger | Quantum billiards | |
| Rob Peterson | Keys and lock operation | |
| Jack Reynolds | Kepler’s legacy: The story of the Ellipse | |
| Michael Samuel | X-ray diffraction and its utilization in crystal structure identification | |
| 2002 | Berhane Temelso | Analytical and numerical studies of one-dimensional diffusion equation and the random walk problem |
| Dinesh Pillai | Infrared photodissociation spectroscopy of small Ag+– (C2H2)y clusters in the gas phase | |
| Kevin Williams | Sugar coated optics: Optical activity in sucrose and fructose | |
| Andrew Wagers | Computer simulations of planetary ring and moon dynamics | |
| 2001 | None | — |
| 2000 | Timothy Brown | Measuring Boltzman’s constant from thermal noises in electrical fluctuations |
| 1999 | Juraj Topolancik | Speeds of masses in gravitational loops |
| Ahmet Er | Ohm’s law and C60 | |
| 1998 | Ariel Drogin | Calculation of the charge of an electron utilizing the effects of shot noise |
| Matthew Perkins | Information not available | |
| 1997 | Andrew Glenn | Brownian motion: Learning from a random walk |
| Benjamin Perry | Information not available | |
| 1996 | Jan Kmetko | Mossbauer studies of SrRuO3+x, Sr2RhO4, BaRuO3+x, Ba2RuO4, BaRhO3+x,and Ba2RhO4 |
| Timothy Willis | A measurement of the muon lifetime | |
| 1995 | James Martin | Compton scattering experiment |
| Linda Opundo | Testing Fourier inversion technique for image reconstruction | |
| Rustin Jackson | Chaos in the bouncing ball | |
| Christopher Langley | Experimental and theoretical comparison of the electric field gradient in FeCl2 – 4H2O | |
| William Keeton | Information not available |