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Contact
Information:
- James A.
McNeil, Professor
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Physics
Department
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Colorado
School of Mines
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Golden, CO
80401
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Phone: (303)
273-3844 (CSM), 303-492-3670 (CU) Fax: (303) 273-3919
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email:
jamcneil@mines.edu
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schedule:
Schedule
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Education:
- B.S.,
Physics, Lafayette College (1970)
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M.S. &
Ph.D, University of Maryland (1979)
Research
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Chiral
model of the nucleon
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Renormalization
group with fermions
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Renormalization
group on the lattice
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Convergence of 2-body
effective range expansions for $nd$ quartet scattering
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Separable expansions of V_{low}
for 2- and 3-nucleon systems
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Dynamical analysis of winter terrain
park jumps
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X-ray Fluourscence Measurements of
Manganese in Petroglyphs and Graffiti in the Bluff, Utah Area
Physics
Education Research
- Designing
Design into the Introductory Electromagnetism Laboratory
(Sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation)
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"The
Metal Detector and Faraday's Law", J. A. McNeil, The
Physics Teacher Vol. 42, page 369, September, 2004.
Teaching Interests:
- Introductory
Electromagnetism PHGN200
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Introduction
to Modern Physics PHGN300
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Thermal
Physics PHGN341
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Nuclear
Physics PHGN422
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Computational
Physics PHGN450
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Nuclear Reactor Physics
PHGN590
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Advanced E&M and Optical Physics
PHGN462
Talks:
"Engineering
Physics: The Universal Donor Degree", J. A. McNeil, Talk
given at the 2005, ASEE meeting, Portland, Oregon.
"Swimming
Upstream: Recruiting Majors in a Shrinking Market", J. A.
McNeil, Invited talk at the March, 2001, APS meeting, Seattle, WA.
Information
for Physics Faculty: ABET
- FAQs
"ZAP!
Adapted: Incorportating Design in the Introductory E&M
Laboratory", J. A. McNeil, Talk presented at the April,
2002, Rocky Mountain Section of the ASEE.
Making Lemonade: Using Graffiti to Date Petroglyphs, J. A. McNeil, presented at the URARA Symposium, Cedar City,
Utah, October, 2009.
"Climate Change and the Nuclear Wedge", J. A. McNeil, presentation for
"Nuclear Power: Hype or Hope?", Center for Energy and Environmental Security, CU Boulder, Nov. 5, 2009.
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