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Wooster Physics alums — Kent Displays Colloquium
The Physics Department hosted three outstanding alumni for a colloquium on Thursday February 23. Asad Khan ’93, Clinton Braganza ’03, and Nithya Venkataraman ’04 are all from Kent Displays, Inc, makers of the Boogie Board and other flexible liquid crystal displays. They presented technical information about how these cholesteric liquid crystal displays work as well as…
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Outstanding SPS Chapter
2019-2020 Physics Club awarded Outstanding SPS Chapter – 4th year in a row!
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For Teague
Sadly and unexpectedly Wooster physics senior Teague Curless ’22 died yesterday. I was fortunate to teach Teague some physics, especially in my Nonlinear Dynamics class last spring. Teague’s semester project beautifully illustrated chaos in a double pendulum — a pendulum swinging from another pendulum, like The Swinging Sticks® kinetic sculpture that silently rotates and librates beside me as I write. Using Mathematica, Teague numerically integrated the relevant Lagrange equations to…
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Physics + Math + Dentistry = Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
Interdisciplinary research team publishes article on geographic tongue Alumna Margaret McGuire ’20, alumnus Chase Fuller ’19, John Lindner, the Moore Professor of Astronomy at The College of Wooster, and Niklas Manz, assistant professor of physics, published a co-written article in early March titled “Geographic tongue as a reaction–diffusion system” in peer-reviewed journal Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal…
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Silver medal in the 2020 University Physics Competition
Wooster team earns a silver medal in the 2020 University Physics Competition
