Bridgewater State College Physics
Contents
MTA
article, Vol. 35, NO. 1/Aug.-Sept. 2004, "Physics at state Colleges: both
possible and crucial"
Making
the cover of the Bridgewater magazine, Vol. 14, No. 3, Summer 2004
Powerpoint talk I
presented for my 'Last Lecture' Award (May 2002)
Course
and helpful notes from my lectures
Course and helpful notes from lectures
Ph.D., The University of Connecticut, 1993
"Ionization
Phenomena in Ion-Atom Collisions"
Assistant Professor of Physics, Bridgewater
State College 1999
I like to say that I smash
atoms, and I do, but it is not entirely for the fun of it. I investigate atomic
and molecular structure and electronic interactions (excitation, ionization,
capture...) using collisions, smashing atoms. This means I explore the ways in
which bound and free electrons configure or develop about atoms and molecules
(including the continuum) in response to interactions initiated by a collision
or some external field. The knowledge of collisions and how electrons behave
themselves during collisions is integral in understanding parts of the universe
made from atoms, ions and molecules-from chemical reactions here on earth to
the spectroscopy of planetary atmospheres and astrophysical plasmas. On campus
I have a high resolution electron and ion spectrometer to measure elastic and
inelastic scattered electrons, Auger electrons, and recoil ions - all of which
yield detailed information on the collision interactions and the electronic
structure and dynamics. Toward the end of the spring semester 1998 my student,
Rudy Magyar, and I successfully constructed the entire apparatus and then
smashed electrons into gaseous single-atomic targets. Here are some of our preliminary
results and a look at the spectrometer. In the future I hope to look at collisions using solid
targets and laser excited atomic targets. I am interested in many other
problems in physics including one that I took part in while I was a post-doc as
Oak
Ridge National Laboratory where,
at CERN
,we produced
electron-positron pairs by the transient Coulomb fields created by lead ions
(traveling at 0.99996 times the speed of light) interacting with fixed targets.
This semester I will be working with two former students on several Chaos
demonstrations and the analytical description of the results. In general, I get
a genuine kick out of teaching and rethinking physics every day. I also like to
play basketball and tennis with students and with whomever else I can find. I
have a NTRP rating of 4.5 - 5.0 in tennis.
On
Campus Research!
(e-mail me if you are interested in working with me on any of these
programs)
Construction of
a 780 nm Tunable Diode Laser I
got the dough so I am ready to go! Starting in the Fall of 2000. Please check
out this link for more details and e-mail me to let me know if you are
interested in working with me on this project that will lead to Doppler and
Doppler-free Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy for starters and atom cooling
and trapping to be developed.
Develop collaborative program with
chemistry to study PbO and overtone spectroscopy of molecules using diode
lasers
MAPLE symbolic algebra code for research
and curriculum development
An RLC Circuit in a Horse with group from Tufts Vet School
Nonlinear Dynamics Experiments... yes Chaos
Environmental Physics Studies
Collisions with Polarized (laser prepared)
Atomic and Molecular targets
Electronic Projects and Gizmos
Solitons, whatever they are?
E.F. Deveney
Physics Department
Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater, MA 02325
Office: Room
111 Science Building (Marshall Connant Science)
Telephone:
(508) 531-2080
Dept.
Telephone: (508) 531-1386
Fax: (508)
531-4080
e-mail:
edeveney@bridgew.edu
Last Revised:
Sept. 2000