Dr. Eduardo Sánchez Velasco
Department of Physics
Truman State University
Research Interests
- Wave propagation. Surface elastic waves
- Ray theory and caustic formation
- Physics of imaging. Seismic and X-ray imaging
- Mathematical physics. Differential geometry
- Foundations of quantum mechanics
- Quantum optics and quantum electronics
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Numerical simulations in statistical mechanics
- Phase transitions and critical phenomena
- Cosmology. Dark Energy.
Sample Publications
- A simple derivation of a result in electrostatics.
SIAM Review 40 (1998) 915-917.
- When does thermodynamic work admit an integrating factor?
European Journal of Physics 18 (1997) 18-21.
- Microcanonical evidence of a first order phase transition
in the 4-D U(1) lattice gauge theory.
Physical Review E 54 (1996) 5819-5821.
- The transistor effect in improperly connected transistors.
The Physics Teacher 34 (1996) 118-119.
Recent Student Research Projects
- Hidden Variables and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
Jonathan Morris
- Lattice Gas Simulation of Fluid Flow.
** First Place MAS Collegiate Division Award 1998 **
Aleksey Zimin
- Minority Carrier Lifetime in the Base of a Phototransistor.
Katie Cadwell
- Laser Spectroscopy of Rubidium.
Beth Lusczek
- Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Benjamin Richards
- Fluorescence experiments with a nirogen laser
Rob Groceman
- Thermodynamic properties of fermions
Adair Crow
- Dark Energy
Sucheta Jawalkar
If you are interested on doing research with me, on any topic,
please stop by my office (MG-3170)
or e-mail me at
velasco@truman.edu
.
"...it is also a good rule not to put
overmuch confidence in the observational results that are
put forward until they have been
confirmed by theory" - Sir Arthur Eddington
