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.
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
Critical Phenomena
Interdisciplinary Reaction-diffusion Systems
Galaxy Morphology
Science History
- The history of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
- The history of the Physics Department at the College of Wooster