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Chair, Department of Physics and Engineering Campus Phone: (304) 473-8070 Office Address: 120 Christopher Hall E-mail Address: popson@wvwc.edu
Home Phone: (304) 472-7408 Educational Biography B.S. in Physics Education, Indiana University of Pa.
M.S. in Physics, Indiana University of Pa. Ph.D. in Physics, Clemson
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Courses Taught
Engineering
Design I and II General Physics I and II including labs Analog Electronics including lab Digital Electronics including lab Engineering Mechanics Mechanics of Materials Materials Science including lab Solid State Physics including lab Engineering Measurements Lab Quantum Mechanics Grants and Awards NSF funding to purchase a pulsed magnetic resonance spectrometer NASA funding to purchase a wind tunnel NASA space grant for research to improve energy efficiency Six Wesleyan Faculty Innovation Grants Outstanding Teacher Award from Omicron Delta Kappa Community Service Committee to select students for NASA scholarship awards 3/2 engineering coordinator with West Virginia University Judge at Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Research Conference Adviser to Wesleyan students Engineering Physics Society Coordinator of summer research activities at Wesleyan Scheduling speakers for colloquia Research Interests Magnetism research, which may lead to improved medical magnetic resonance imaging, methods to analyze pharmaceuticals for purity, and methods to detect roadside bombs. Students have investigated the Mossbauer effect, the Hall effect, nuclear magnetic resonance, and electron paramagnetic resonance. Cold materials research, which uses a cryogenic helium dilution refrigeration system that produces temperatures as cold as ‒269 oC. Students have investigated materials that become superconductors at these temperatures. We have also investigated superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), which can detect very small magnetic fields. Impurities in solids, which affect properties such brittleness and electrical conductivity. Students have measured effects when impurities diffuse through a material. Aerodynamics research, which uses our wind tunnel to measure the lift and drag of various wing designs. Professional Presentations To the American Association
of Physics Teachers Wesleyan’s educational heat pump system Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices Wesleyan's holography instrumentation Wesleyan's Mossbauer instrumentation Wesleyan's Hall Effect instrumentation Verifying Thevenin’s Theorem
in the electronics lab Panel discussion on the role of undergraduate research in physics To the American Physical Society
Yttrium
diffusion in silver chloride Using optical interference to measure Young's modulus To the West Virginia Symposium for the Sciences and Humanities
Cryogenics
Demonstrations with Liquid Nitrogen Amazing Laser Demonstrations As
colloquia for the faculty at Wesleyan
Cryogenics
Demonstrations with Liquid Nitrogen The Physics of Music |
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Comments to: popson@wvwc.edu