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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) 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
Nuclear Physics
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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
Winter Terrain Park Jump Modeling
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Dynamical analysis of winter terrain
park jumps
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Modelling the 'pop' in winter terrain park jumps
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The inverting effect of curvature in winter terrain park jump takeoffs
YouTube Video of a Toy Model Simulation of the inverting effect of curvature in jump Takeoffs
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Designing tomorrow's snow park jump
Sports Engineering Best Paper Award (2012)
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Park Profiler/Jump Analyzer: A Practical Method for determining jump performance
Rock Art Dating with XRF
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X-ray Fluourscence Measurements of
Manganese in Petroglyphs and Graffiti in the Bluff, Utah Area
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Making Lemonade: Using Graffiti to
Date Petroglyphs
- Project Description of NSF Proposal (not funded):
Calibation of XRF Dating of Desert Varnish
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:
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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.
"Creating Standards for Winter Terrain Park Jumps", J. A. McNeil and Mont Hubbard, presentation for
the American Society for Testing and Materials F-27 Committee, Snowbird, Utah, January, 2011.
"Modelling the Pop in Winter Terrain Park Jumps", J. A. McNeil, presentation for
the Int. Soc. for Ski Safety, Co, May, 2011.
"The Inverting Effect of Curvature in Winter Terrain Park Jumps", J. A. McNeil, presentation for
the Int. Soc. for Ski Safety, Co, May, 2011.
Personal Interests:
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