Tag: Physics

Faculty Spotlight: James Sanders

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Zenith Shrestha photo Assistant professor of physics James Sanders began working for Troy University in 2014. Lirona Joshi Staff Writer What do you like about Troy? “I do like a lot of the students. We definitely have a lot of students who try very hard in their classes, and it’s nice to see that. Even if they come from a background where they don’t have much of a physics background when they come take my physics course, many of them they say this is the first physics course they’ve had.…

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Student studies under Nobel Prize winner

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(CONTRIBUTED/ Ty Naquin) Ty Naquin, a senior physics major from Millbrook, Alabama, had the opportunity to research optics under Nobel Prize-winning physicist Gerard Mourou in France during the summer of 2019. Lirona Joshi Staff Writer What if your job this summer was hanging out in the lab with one of the best people in your field trying to solve problems that you are passionate about? Ty Naquin, a senior physics major from Milbrook, Alabama, got a chance to spend his summer researching optics under a program run by Nobel Prize-winning…

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A Question of Unification: from atoms to galaxies

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Rakshak Adhikari Staff Writer Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday physics students at Troy take two very peculiar physics classes: General Relativity in the morning and Quantum Mechanics in the afternoon. General Relativity, Einstein’s magnum opus, deals mostly with large scale structures in the universe. The deviation of planetary orbits from Newtonian laws, the slowing down of time near massive objects, the existence of certain exotic objects called black holes and the recently discovered gravitational waves are all consequences of general relativity. Quantum Mechanics, on the other hand, was developed by…

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Students pursue summer research in the sciences

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Rakshak Adhikari Staff Writer Madelynn Lytle, a senior math major from Blountstown, Florida, spent the summer working on visual biophysics in the University of Alabama at Birmingham through a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.  She developed a model of light propagation and capture in a photoreceptor cell using a matrix laboratory (MATLAB) with the purpose of advancing the current understanding of retinal physiology. “Real research is intense,” said Lytle. “One day everything plans out nicely, while the next day you may find out that all you did was wrong.”…

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