Research with Undergraduates
All of Wooster’s physics faculty are actively engaged in research involving undergraduates. During the academic year, our focus is on the College’s nationally-recognized Independent Study program.
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Chemical Physics
- Black-hole horizon analogue
- Gravitational lens effect analogue
- Electron drift velocity analogue
- Light-sensitive BZ waves in non-homogeneously illuminated systems
- Propagating RD waves around obstacles
- RD spiral on non-planar surfaces
- Stationary waves (Effect of fluid flow on 1D RD waves)
- Light-sensitive catalysts in the BZ reaction
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Critical Phenomena
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Interdisciplinary Reaction-diffusion Systems
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Galaxy Morphology
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Science History
- The history of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
- The history of the Physics Department at the College of Wooster