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
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Fundamentals of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: Lecture Notes.
Second Edition. CreateSpace Publishing (2010). - Fundamentals of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: Lecture Notes.
BookSurge Publishing (2008). - 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.
Some Student Research Projects
- Algebraic Reconstruction Technique in Computed Tomography
Rachel McCarroll - Analog Simulation of Memristors
Bhupendra Subedi - Quantum Computer Science
Travis Grider - Hydraulic Jump
Martín DiStefano - Monte Carlo Simulations of Spin Systems
John Cobb - Dark Energy
Sucheta Jawalkar - Thermodynamic Properties of Fermions
Adair Crow - Fluorescence Experiments with a Nirogen Laser
Rob Groceman - Computational Fluid Dynamics
Benjamin Richards - Laser Spectroscopy of Rubidium
Beth Lusczek - Minority Carrier Lifetime in the Base of a Phototransistor
Katie Cadwell - Lattice Gas Simulation of Fluid Flow.
** First Place MAS Collegiate Division Award 1998 **
Aleksey Zimin - Hidden Variables and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Jonathan Morris
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
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"...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
