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  • Learning in a physics classroom community : physics learning identity construct development, measurement and validation

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    Li, Sissi L.
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    At the university level, introductory science courses usually have high student to teacher ratios which increases the challenge to meaningfully connect with students. Various curricula have been developed in physics education to actively engage students in learning through social interactions with peers and instructors in class. This learning environment demands...
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    ). Switching Students on to Science: An Innovative Course Design for Physics Students. Journal of College

  • Students' Understanding of Complex Numbers in Middle-Division Physics

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    Smith, Emily M.
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    Mathematical sophistication increases rapidly as students transition from lower- to upper-division physics courses. Complex algebra is one of the mathematical tools that is not introduced or used in lower-division physics courses but is pervasive throughout upper-division courses. In this dissertation, I study middle-division physics students' developing fluency with complex number...
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    degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics presented on June 9, 2016. Title: Students’ Understanding of

  • Branching random walk and probability problems from physics and biology

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    Johnson, Torrey
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    This thesis studies connections between disorder type in tree polymers and the branching random walk and presents an application to swarm site-selection. Chapter two extends results on tree polymers in the infinite volume limit to critical strong disorder. Almost sure (a.s.) convergence in the infinite volume limit is obtained for...
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    giving birth to some number of new particles according to some offspring distribution. Consistent with

  • The optical properties of multi-scale plasmonic structures and their applications in optical characterization and imaging

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    Kuhta, Nicholas Anthony
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    The optical response of metallic structures is dominated by the dynamics of their free electron plasma. Plasmonics, the area of optics specializing in the electromagnetic behavior of heterogeneous structures with metallic inclusions, is undergoing rapid development, fueled in part by recent progress in experimental fabrication techniques and novel theoretical approaches....
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    of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics presented on July 9, 2012. Title: The Optical Properties of

  • Wave runup : Physics, variability, and societal impacts

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    García Medina, Gabriel
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    The U.S. Pacific Northwest is home to one of the most extreme wave climates in the world with waves of 10 m in height arriving to the coast approximately each year. With an average water temperature of 12℃, the beaches in the region are too cold to go on a...
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    . The results of this work have been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans

  • Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

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    Richards, Linda Marie
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    The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
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    . The international field of health physics, dominated by the AEC trained scientists, interpreted

  • The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

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    Caulkins, Tamara L.
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    During the eighteenth century, diagrams increasingly became an important aspect of scientific inquiry. Diagrams employed simplification as a strategy for representing complex information, played a role in standardizing scientific language, and served as instruments of reason to think through and communicate problems and findings in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, natural...
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    greater than had previously been believed. Guided by the light of reason and emboldened by new venues

  • Exploring the structural dynamics of human understanding : an historico-philosophical analysis of the problem of meaning in Heidegger and Bohr

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    Tattersall, Mason
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    This dissertation explores the structural dynamics of human understanding and particularly the concept of meaning and its connections to concepts of ultimate ground, necessity and contingency, language, and perception. It focuses on the history of the concept of meaning in early twentieth-century European physics and philosophy, through an analysis of...
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    of complementarity, initiated a new paradigm in physics and likewise spawned new philosophical

  • Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

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    Blanchard, Nicholas
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    By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...
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    standards of evidence, but also with new claims about disciplinary identity, expertise, and

  • Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

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    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...
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    ………………………………………... 70 3.3 Textbook Definitions of Morphology ………………………………………. 77 3.4 New Morphology: A