Month: December 2013

Experimental Physics Presentations

The students in Experimental Analysis (PHYS 315) presented the results of several experiments in a semester-ending poster session. Topics included the charge to mass ratio of an electron, the speed of light, the Ideal Gas Law, the Stefan-Boltzmann law, electron diffraction and the Michelson Interferometer. Through these experiments, which reproduce breakthroughs in physics, the students…

Prime Time Programming: Computing Team Wins Regional Competition

Roanoke College sophomore computer science majors Randall Pittman and Thomas Lux won the student research competition at the Southeastern Region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges at Furman University (Greenville, SC) on November 15-16, 2013. Junior physics major Maya Shende placed second in the competition. In addition, the programming team of Pittman, Lux,…