PAST SENIOR THESES

An Analysis of Ground Source Heat Pumps and Their Application

Keep ME Warm:  Practicality of Photovoltaic Systems and Solar Space Heating in Maine

The Physics Behind a Toy Rollercoaster

Inverse Problems and Integral Equations in the Mathematical Sciences

A Study of Atomic Layer Deposition and Ellipsometry

The Formalism and Use of Correlation Functions in Physics and Chemistry

The Acoustic Impedance of the Trombone

The Bluing Effect of Intergalactic Solid Matter

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Tungsten Oxide and Tungsten Bronze

Gravitational Lensing by a Point Mass

Lie Theory and Quantum Mechanics

A Magneto-Optical Trap for Potassium or Rubidium

An experimental study of the influence of optical feedback on multi-mode vertical-cavity surfaceemitting lasers

Holograms as used for Display Purposes and Opfical Elements

Electric Field Enhancement With a Scanned Probe Tip

Inverse Problems and Integral Equations in the Mathematical Sciences

Effects of Spatial Filtering in Optical Image Processing

Influence of Operating Temperature one Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

The Bluing Effect of Intergalactic Solid Matter

Building and Testing a Noise Eater

Analysis of the Tesla Boundary Disk Turbine

Electric Field Enhancement with a Scanned Probe Tip

A Cesium Vapor-Cell Magneto-Optical Trap and Photoassociation of Cs Below the 6P_3/2 Asymptote

An Experimental Study of the Influence of Optical Feedback on Multi-Mode Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

An Introduction to Bessel Functions via the Lengthening Pendulum

The Physics of Vehicle Dynamics

Singularities and You: The Physics of Black Holes

Windmills: Their Imporance in Today's Society and the Physics that Governs their Operation

The Physics and Bioenergies of the Brewing Process: Carbon DioxideRecovery, Storage and the Effects of Beer Culture and the Environment

Flow Study of a Low Speed Wind Tunnel

An Experimental Evaluation of the Function, Construction, and Electrical Properities of Fuel Cells

Using Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating to Measure the duration and Phase of Ultrashort Pulses

Two Species Atom Trapping Using Rb-87 and Cs-133 and the Trap Loss That Came of It

Design and Construction of a Magneto-Optical Trap and Enriched Potassium Source

Ultra Cold Rb-Cs Molecules in a Dual MOT

High Mass X-ray Binary A0538-66 from 1896 to 1954

The Aerodynamics of Sails: Numeric Methods for Determining Lift

Theory and Testing of a Monolithic Photovoltaic-Photoelectrochemical Device for Hydrogen Production via Water Splitting

Acoustic Analysis of a Javanese Slenthem

Deep Sea Geodesy

Wind Tunnel Design and Characterization

A Study into the Nature of the Floating Arm Trebuchet

Using an Improved Version of Millikan's Oil Drop Experiment to Examine the Accuracy of Stokes  Law

Effect of a Spatially Filtered Optical Feedback on a Helium-Neon Laser

An Experimental Study of Liquid Crystals

Optical Pumping: D1 and D2 Transitions in Rubidium

Electrohydrodynamics in Liquid Crystals

Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Self-gravitating Plasma

Testing an Airfoil: A Study of Lift and Drag

Scanned-Probe Microscopy and Tungsten Oxide Nanodots

Building a Magneto-Optical Trap for Potassium