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The aim of physicists is to discover the most fundamental principles of nature. Their tools are mathematics and experiment. The physical world as we perceive it is very complex, yet the principles of Physics are inherently simple. A physicist's forte is the ability to analyze a problem, reduce its complexity, and arrive at an understanding of the underlying patterns of nature in terms of simple relationships among constituent elements. Learning to do this gives Physics majors an intellectual versatility that can serve them well in a variety of future activities ranging from research and teaching in Physics or related sciences to careers in law, the health professions, and high-technology companies.

Papers from 2022 2022

Physics 516: Electromagnetic Phenomena (Spring 2023), Philip C. Nelson

How Occam’s Razor Guides Human Inference, Eugenio Piasini, Shuze Liu, Pratik Chaudhari, Vijay Balasubramanian, and Joshua I. Gold

Papers from 2021 2021

Physical Models of Living Systems new chapter: Single Particle Reconstruction in Cryo-electron Microscopy, Philip C. Nelson

Physical Models of Living Systems Prologue: A Breakthrough on HIV, Philip C. Nelson

Effect of Geometric Complexity on Intuitive Model Selection, Eugenio Piasini, Vijay Balasubramanian, and Joshua I. Gold

Interplay of rearrangements, strain, and local structure during avalanche propagation, Ge Zhang, Sean Ridout, and Andrea J. Liu

Papers from 2020 2020

Biological Physics Student Edition 2020: Chapter 1, Philip C. Nelson

Biological Physics Student Edition 2020: Contents and Prefaces, Philip C. Nelson

Physical Models of Living Systems 2nd ed, new chapter: Demographic Variation in Epidemic Spread, Philip C. Nelson

Physical Models of Living Systems 2nd ed, new chapter: Random Walks on an Energy Landscape, Philip C. Nelson

Papers from 2019 2019

A Demonstration of the Infrared Activity of Carbon Dioxide, Philip Sieg, William Berner, Peter Harnish, and Philip C. Nelson

Papers from 2018 2018

From Photon to Neuron Chapter 15: Planetary Climates, Philip C. Nelson

From Photon to Neuron Chapter 16: Tunneling of Photons and Electrons, Philip C. Nelson

From Photon to Neuron Chapter 17: Rainbows and other Caustics, Philip C. Nelson

The Role of Quantum Decoherence in FRET, Philip C. Nelson

Time to Stop Telling Biophysics Students That Light Is Primarily a Wave, Philip C. Nelson

Activities and Classroom Demonstrations in Biological Physics: A resource document, Philip C. Nelson and William Berner

A Student’s Guide to Matlab for Physical Modeling, Philip C. Nelson and Tom Dodson

Papers from 2017 2017

Effect of Interstitial Fluid on the Fraction of Flow Microstates That Precede Clogging in Granular Hoppers, Juha Koivisto and Douglas J. Durian

From Photon to Neuron: Contents and Preface, Philip C. Nelson

Student Resources for: From Photon to Neuron, Light, Imaging, Vision, Philip C. Nelson

Papers from 2016 2016

Rheology of Sediment Transported by a Laminar Flow, Morgane Houssais, Carlos P. Ortiz, Douglas J. Durian, and Douglas J. Jerolmack

Coding and Data Visualization in the Science Classroom, Philip C. Nelson

Old and New Results About Single-Photon Sensitivity in Human Vision, Philip C. Nelson

Divergence of Voronoi Cell Anisotropy Vector: A Threshold-Free Characterization of Local Structure in Amorphous Materials, Jennifer M. Rieser, Carl P. Goodrich, Andrea J. Liu, and Douglas J. Durian

Intermittency and Velocity Fluctuations in Hopper Flows Prone to Clogging, C. C. Thomas and Douglas J. Durian

Papers from 2015 2015

Penetration Depth Scaling for Impact Into Wet Granular Packings, Theodore A. Brzinski III, Jonathan Schug, K. Mao, and Douglas J. Durian

Identifying Structural Flow Defects in Disordered Solids Using Machine-Learning Methods, E. D. Cubuk, Samuel Schoenholz, Jennifer M. Rieser, B. D. Malone, J. Rottler, Douglas J. Durian, E. Kaxiras, and Andrea J. Liu

Deformation-Driven Diffusion and Plastic Flow in Amorphous Granular Pillars, Wenbin Li, Jennifer M. Rieser, Andrea J. Liu, Douglas J. Durian, and Ju Li

Physical Models of Living Systems: Contents, Preface, and Prolog, Philip C. Nelson

Fraction of Clogging Configurations Sampled by Granular Hopper Flow, C. C. Thomas and Douglas J. Durian

Papers from 2014 2014

Kinetics of Gravity-Driven Water Channels Under Steady Rainfall, Cesare M. Cejas, Yuli Wei, Rémi Barrois, Christian Frétigny, Douglas J. Durian, and Rémi Dreyfus

Biological Physics: Contents and Preface, Philip C. Nelson

Morphology of Rain Water Channeling in Systematically Varied Model Sandy Soils, Yuli Wei, Cesare M. Cejas, Rémi Barrois, Rémi Dreyfus, and Douglas J. Durian

Granular Discharge Rate for Submerged Hoppers, T. J. Wilson, C. R. Pfeifer, N. Meysingier, and Douglas J. Durian

Papers from 2013 2013

Tilting and Wobble of Myosin V by High-Speed Single-Molecule Polarized Fluorescence Microscopy, John F. Beausang, Deborah Y. Shroder, Philip C. Nelson, and Yale E. Goldman

Depth-Dependent Resistance of Granular Media to Vertical Penetration, Theodore A. Brzinski III, Patrick Mayor, and Douglas J. Durian

Retarded Green’s function of a Vainshtein system and Galileon waves, Yi-Zen Chu and Mark Trodden

Absence of Luttinger’s Theorem due to Zeros in the Single-Particle Green Function, Kiaran B. Dave, Philip W. Phillips, and Charles L. Kane

0⁺ cross-section ratio in ¹²Be( p,t)¹⁰Be, H Terry Fortune

Unraveling the structure of ¹³Be, H Terry Fortune

Continuum three-body decays of ⁹Be(5/2⁻), H Terry Fortune and R. Sherr

Excited states of ¹⁹Mg, H Terry Fortune and R. Sherr

Mass of ¹⁸Mg(g.s.), H Terry Fortune and R. Sherr

Spin Dynamics of Trimers on a Distorted Kagome Lattice, A. Brooks Harris and Taner Yildirim

The Syncytial Drosophila Embryoas a Mechanically Excitable Medium, Timon Idema, Julien Dubuis, Louis Kang, M. Lisa Manning, Philip C. Nelson, Tom Lubensky, and Andrea J. Liu

Drag Force Scaling for Penetration Into Granular Media, Hiroaki Katsuragi and Douglas J. Durian

Ghost Condensate in N = 1 Supergravity, Michael Koehn, Jean-Luc Lehners, and Burt A. Ovrut

Effective-medium theory of a filamentous triangular lattice, Xiaoming Mao, Olaf Stenull, and Thomas C. Lubensky

Elasticity of a filamentous kagome lattice, Xiaoming Mao, Olaf Stenull, and Thomas C. Lubensky

Bubble statistics and coarsening dynamics for quasi-two-dimensional foams with increasing liquid content, A. E. Roth, C. D. Jones, and Douglas J. Durian

Structure and Coarsening at the Surface of a Dry Three-Dimensional Aqueous Foam, R. E. Roth, B. G. Chen, and Douglas J. Durian

Nonlocal Lagrangian bias, Ravi K. Sheth, Kwan Chuen Chan, and Román Scoccimarro

Transformation of Stimulus Correlations by the Retina, Kristina D. Simmons, Jason S. Prentice, Gasper Tkacik, Jan Homann, Heather K. Yee, Stephanie E. Palmer, Philip C. Nelson, and Vijay Balasubramanian

Anisotropic Local Correlations and Dynamics in a Relaxor Ferroelectric, Hiroyuki Takenaka, Ilya Grinberg, and Andrew M. Rappe

Geometry dependence of the clogging transition in tilted hoppers, C. C. Thomas and Douglas J. Durian

Effect of Hydrogel Particle Additives on Water-Accessible Pore Structure of Sandy Soils: A Custom Pressure Plate Apparatus and Capillary Bundle Model, Y. Wei and Douglas J. Durian

Prediction of a Linear Spin Bulk Photovoltaic Effect in Antiferromagnets, Steve M. Young, Fan Zhang, and Andrew M. Rappe

Coffee Rings and Coffee Disks: Physics on the Edge, Peter J. Yunker, Douglas J. Durian, and Arjun G. Yodh

Effects of Particle Shape on Growth Dynamics at Edges of Evaporating Drops of Colloidal Suspensions, Peter J. Yunker, Matthew A. Lohr, Tim Still, Alexei Borodin, Douglas J. Durian, and Arjun G. Yodh

Relationship Between Neighbor Number and Vibrational Spectra in disordered colloidal clusters with attractive interactions, Peter J. Yunker, Zexin Zhang, Matthew Gratale, Ke Chen, and Arjun G. Yodh

Spin Texture on the Fermi Surface of Tensile-strained HgTe, Saad Zaheer, Steve M. Young, Daniel Cellucci, Jeffrey C.Y. Teo, Charles L. Kane, Eugene J. Mele, and Andrew M. Rappe

Surface State Magnetization and Chiral Edge States on Topological Insulators, Fan Zhang, Charles L. Kane, and Eugene J. Mele

Papers from 2012 2012

Non-Gaussianity and Excursion Set Theory: Halo Bias, Peter Adshead, Eric J. Baxter, Scott Dodelson, and Adam Lidz

Colloquium: Disclination loops, point defects, and all that in nematic liquid crystals, Gareth P. Alexander, Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, and Randall Kamien

Conformal Smectics and their Many Metrics, Gareth P. Alexander, Randall Kamien, and Ricardo A. Mosna

Developed Smectics: When Exact Solutions Agree, Gareth P. Alexander, Randall Kamien, and Christian D. Santangelo

Momentum-space Entanglement and Renormalization in Quantum Field Theory, Vijay Balasubramanian, Michael B. McDermott, and Mark Van Raamsdonk

Dark Matter with Density-dependent Interactions, Kimberly K. Boddy, Sean M. Carroll, and Mark Trodden

Spherical Collapse in ƒ(R) Gravity, Alexander Borisov, Bhuvnesh Jain, and Pengjie Zhang

Validation of Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopic Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow Using Phase-Encoded Velocity Mapping Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Erin M. Buckley, Dalton Hance, Thomas Pawlowski, Jennifer Lynch, Felice B. Wilson, Rickson C. Mesquita, Turgut Durduran, Laura K. Diaz, Mary E. Putt, Daniel J. Licht, Mark A. Fogel, and Arjun G. Yodh

Neutron Scattering Measurements in RbMnF₃: A Test of Spin-Wave-Region Theories at Low Temperatures and Critical Behavior Near T_N, N. Bykovetz, A. Hoser, J. Klein, C. L. Lin, and M. S. Seehra

Gravity and Large-Scale Nonlocal Bias, Kwan C. Chan, Román Scoccimarro, and Ravi K. Sheth

Probing Spin-charge Relation by Magnetoconductance in One-dimensional Polymer Nanofibers, A. Choi, K. H. Kim, S. J. Hong, M. Goh, K. Akagi, R. B. Kaner, N. N. Kirova, S. A. Brazovskii, A.T. Charlie Johnson Jr., Dawn A. Bonnell, Eugene J. Mele, and Y. W. Park

Temperature-Pressure Scaling for Air-Fluidized Grains near Jamming, L. J. Daniels, T. K. Haxton, N. Xu, Andrea J. Liu, and Douglas J. Durian

Branching Ratio of ¹⁸Ne(7.06 MeV, 4⁺), H Terry Fortune

Comment on “Neutron knockout of ¹²Be populating neutron-unbound states in ¹¹Be”, H Terry Fortune

Core Excitation in ¹⁴C and Two-proton Pickup, H Terry Fortune

B(E2) Value and Configuration Mixing in ³²Mg, H Terry Fortune

B(E2) Values in ¹²Be and Core Excitation, H Terry Fortune

Intruder–normal-state mixing in ³⁰Mg, H Terry Fortune

Properties of 3.89/3.96-MeV states in ¹¹Be, H Terry Fortune

Properties of the Lowest 1/2⁺, T = 3/2 States in A = 11 Nuclei, H Terry Fortune

Two-Neutron Transfer in the “Island of Inversion”, H Terry Fortune

α Width of ¹⁸Ne(6.15 MeV, 1^–), H Terry Fortune

Matter Radii of ^29-35Mg, H Terry Fortune and R. Sherr

Predictions for the first two positive-parity states of ¹³F, H Terry Fortune and R. Sherr

Binding energy of ²²C, H Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr

Consistent Description of ¹¹Be and ¹²Be and of the ¹¹Be(d,p)¹²Be Reaction, H Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr

Reexamining ¹⁸Na and ¹⁹Mg, H Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr

Widths and Spectroscopic Factors in ²¹O, H Terry Fortune and Rubby Sherr

Lowest 2⁺, T = 2 States in ²⁰Mg and ²⁰F, H Terry Fortune, Rubby Sherr, and B A. Brown

Topology, Delocalization via Average Symmetry and the Symplectic Anderson Transition, Liang Fu and Charles L. Kane

Covariant Master Theory for Novel Galilean Invariant Models and Massive Gravity, Gregory Gabadadze, Kurt Hinterbichler, Justin Khoury, David Pirtskhalava, and Mark Trodden

Measurement of Scintillation Efficiency for Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Argon, Dan Gastler, Ed Kearns, Andrew Hime, Laura C. Stonehill, Stan Seibert, Josh Klein, W. Hugh Lippincott, Daniel N. McKinsey, and James A. Nikkel

Finite-Size Scaling at the Jamming Transition, Carl P. Goodrich, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel

Landau Theory of Tilting of Oxygen Octahedra in Perovskites, A. Brooks Harris

Symmetry Analysis of Multiferroic Co₃TeO₆, A. Brooks Harris

Landau Theory of Tilting of Oxygen Octahedra in Perovskites, A. Brooks Harris

Symmetry Analysis of Multiferroic Co₃TeO₆, A. Brooks Harris

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