{"id":88,"date":"2010-05-25T20:10:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/physicsastronomy\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2024-11-12T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:40:34","slug":"student-theses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/academics\/student-theses\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Theses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The senior thesis program gives students an opportunity to do their own\u00a0research on a topic of their choosing.<\/p>\n<p>Some students use the thesis\u00a0to do theoretical work beyond what is covered in normal courses, some\u00a0participate in a faculty member&#8217;s laboratory research, and some devise\u00a0experiments of their own. The college provides special grants to\u00a0students who need specialized equipment or other resources not readily\u00a0available. The following is a list of theses completed by Bates physics students. Please contact the physics department if you would like more information.<\/p>\n<h3>Academic Years:<\/h3>\n<h4>2016-2017<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Acoustic Levitation<\/li>\n<li>Polarization Dynamics induced by Optical Perturbations in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers<\/li>\n<li>Building a Prism-Based Optical Fingerprint Scanner Utilizing Total Internal Reflection<\/li>\n<li>Experiments with the Periodic Equatorial Beta Plane<\/li>\n<li>Measurements of BEC Trap Dynamics<\/li>\n<li>The Magnus Effect: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Methods<\/li>\n<li>Viability of Concentrator Photovoltaics for Electricity Production in the United States<\/li>\n<li>Numerical Simulation of Constrained Particles and Rigid Bodies<\/li>\n<li>Spatially Resolving the Mass Surface Density Distribution in 12 Compact Galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing the Irregularities of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Subject to Optical Feedback<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing the Development of the Mouse Accessory Olfactory Bulb using Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy<\/li>\n<li>Nonlinear Dynamics of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers subject to Optical Injection<\/li>\n<li>Effects of Time-Gating on the Spatial Resolution of STED Microscopy<\/li>\n<li>Solving Sparse Eigensystems: An Overview and Implementation of Krylov Projection Methods<\/li>\n<li>The Bates College Guide to Compact Galaxies: Resolving the Radial Mass Distribution of Stellar Populations in Three Compact Galaxies<\/li>\n<li>Modeling the Indian Monsoon: Combining Data and Models<\/li>\n<li>Predicting the Unpredictable<\/li>\n<li>Testing The Dedalus Project<\/li>\n<li>Mitigating Greenhouse Gases Through Biogas Utilization and Cogeneration in Municipal Wastewater Facilities<\/li>\n<li>Comparative Analysis of Infrastructural Thermal Efficiency at Bates College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2015-2016<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Quadropter Dynamics: Modeling and Stabilizing Quadrotor Aircraft<\/li>\n<li>The Effect of Altitude on Pitch Movement at Coors Field as Derived from PITCHf\/x Data<\/li>\n<li>Nanopositioning Gold Nanoparticles for the Study of Plasmonics<\/li>\n<li>Optimizing Scan Waveforms for Laser Scanning Microscopy<\/li>\n<li>The Artificial Leaf: Solar-Driven Hydrogen Production<\/li>\n<li>Computational Model and Numerical Solution to the Cooling Flow of the Intracluster in a Hypothetical Galaxy Center<\/li>\n<li>Fluorescence Spectroscopy Correlation with Deformable Mirror<\/li>\n<li>Progress toward Bose-Einstein Condensation on an Atom Chip as a Functional Testbed for Experiments aboard the Orbital NASA Cold Atom Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>Investigating the Properties of High-Power Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers Subject to Optical Feedback<\/li>\n<li>Study the Magnus Effect with an Experimental Flow Tank<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2014-2015<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Image Quality Metrics for Adaptive Optics STED Nanoscopy<\/li>\n<li>STED Nanoscopy with Low-NA Objective Lenses<\/li>\n<li>Automated Reconstruction of Biological Structure From Fluorescence Images<\/li>\n<li>Frequency-doubling of a Ti:sapphire laser for use in ultracold atomic physics experiments<\/li>\n<li>Current stabilization of a magnetic trap used in Bose-Einstein condensation experiments<\/li>\n<li>Temperature stabilization of lab equipment using Arduino microcontrollers<\/li>\n<li>Treating Ocular Cancer with Proton Beams<\/li>\n<li>Chaos in Mechanical Systems<\/li>\n<li>Two-beam optical injection in multimode vertical-cavity surface-emitting<\/li>\n<li>Concealment of time-delay features in multimode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers by using polarization rotated optical feedback<\/li>\n<li>Guitar String Resonance and Decay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2013-2014<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Seismoelectric Waves<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Effect of Blade Pitch Angle for Vertical-Axis Helical Tidal Turbines<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Josephson Dynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Photothermal Imaging<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Construction of a STED Microscope<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Rail-car guidance and dynamics<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Atom interferometry using Kapitza-Dirac diffraction<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Custom optical potentials using a spatial light modulator<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0An optical lattice with diamond crystalline geometry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2012-2013<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Characterization of Femtosecond Pulses for Two-Photon Microscopy<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Stress and Strain Analysis of Warren-style Trusses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2011-2012<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Computational Analysis of Light Element Abundances During Hot Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The Internal Combustion Engine<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Optical Injection Dynamics and Chaos Synchronization in Multi-transverse mode Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Modeling Cloud Growth<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Progress towards Bose-Einstein Condensation<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Effect of Optical Feedback on a Current-Modulated Multi-mode Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2010-2011<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Polarization Switching Dyanamics in a multimode Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Subjection to Optical Injection<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Physics of Classical Ballet<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Investigating BBCOR Baseball Bats: A Comparison of New and Old<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The Derivation and Significance of Minkowski Space-Time<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Delay Line Frequency Offset Locking of Two Lasers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2009-2010<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0An Analysis of the Motion of Fastpitch Softball Pitches<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The Variational Principle and its Applications in Physics<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Galactic Dark Matter and the Cosmic Microwave Background<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Rubidium Vapor<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Computational Models of Stars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2007-2008<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Measurement and Manipulation of a Single Electron Spin in an N-V Center of Diamond<\/li>\n<li>A Technical Analysis\u00a0of the Hammer Throw<\/li>\n<li>Quantum Computer Algorithms<\/li>\n<li>Polarization Dynamics of a Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Subject to Optical Feedback<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Polarization Dynamics of a VCSEL Under Isotropic Optical Feedback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\u00a02006-2007<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Exploring the Economic and Energy Potentials of Hydrogen Fuel<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0A Theoretical Treatment of the Electronic Behavior of Metal Nanostructures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2005-2006<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Perturbed: The Formalism and Uses of Correlation Functions in Physical Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0A Cesium Vapor-Cell MOT and Photoasssociation of Cs Below the 6S1\/2 6P3\/2 Asymptote<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0An Experimental Study of the Influence of Optical Feedback on Multimode VCSELs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2004-2005<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Inverse Problems and Integral Equations in the Mathematical Sciences<b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2003-2004<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0An Introduction to Bessel Functions via the Lengthening Pendulum<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0New Variables for Quantum Interference<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Using Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating to Measure the Duration and Phase of Ultrashort Pulses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2002-2003<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<b><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><\/b>Using an Improved Version of Millikan\u2019s Oil Drop Experiment to Examine the Accuracy of Stokes\u2019 Law<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Deep Sea Geodesy<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Building Text-to-Speech Synthesizer and Automatic Speech Recognizer for Nepali Language<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Effect of Spatially Filtered Optical Feedback on a Unidirectional Photorefractive Ring Resonator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2001-2002<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The Construction and Study of a Unidirectional Photorefractive Ring Resonator with a Stabilized Cavity Length<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Why the Weather is Unpredictable: An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Lorenz Equations<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Force Feedback Application in Robotics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>2000<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Efficiency Calculations for the Rate of Supernovae at High Redshift<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>1999<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Gravitational Lensing by a Point Mass<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Lie Theory and Quantum Mechanics<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Single Bubble Sonoluminescence<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Electronic Energy Transfer in Ba (5d7p)3D1 Rare Gas Collisions<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0A Geophysical Gravity Survey in Search of Aquiver Potential, Eldorado, New Mexico<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Simultaneous Trapping of Cs and Rb in a Vapor-Cell MOT<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Ice Mechanics: Stress, Strain, and Compressive Failure<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0An Analysis of Solar-Driven Natural Convection Energy Conversion Systems<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Pattern Dynamics in a Unidirectional Photorefractive Ring Resonator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>1998<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Phase Locking in Coupled Oscillators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Unsorted Years<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The Physics of Brachytherapy<\/li>\n<li>Shor&#8217;s Algorithm: The Potential of Quantum Computing<\/li>\n<li>Trumpet Acoustics<\/li>\n<li>Breaking the Black Box: An Introduction to the Fundamentals of Climate Modeling<\/li>\n<li>An Analysis of Ground Source Heat Pumps and Their Application<\/li>\n<li>Keep ME Warm: \u00a0Practicality of Photovoltaic Systems and Solar Space Heating in Maine<\/li>\n<li>The Physics Behind a Toy Rollercoaster<\/li>\n<li>Inverse Problems and Integral Equations in the Mathematical Sciences<\/li>\n<li>A Study of Atomic Layer Deposition and Ellipsometry<\/li>\n<li>The Formalism and Use of Correlation Functions in Physics and Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>The Acoustic Impedance of the Trombone<\/li>\n<li>Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Tungsten Oxide and Tungsten Bronze<\/li>\n<li>An experimental study of the influence of optical feedback on multi-mode vertical-cavity surfaceemitting 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