Physics

Authors and titles for February 2016

[501] arXiv:1602.06369 [pdf, other]

Title: Improving Student Understanding of Coulomb's Law and Gauss's Law

Chandralekha Singh

Comments: 4 pages, PACS: 01.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-,this http URL

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the 2006 Physics Education Research Conference, Syracuse, NY, AIP Conference Proceedings, Melville New York 883, 181-184, (2007)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[502] arXiv:1602.06374 [pdf, other]

Title: Students' Understanding of Stern Gerlach Experiment

Guangtian Zhu, Chandralekha Singh

Comments: 4 pages, PACS: 01.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-,this http URL, keywords: quantum mechanics pedagogy, physics education research, teaching, learning. Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, Ann Arbor, MI

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the Physics Education Research Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, AIP Conference Proceedings, Melville, New York 1179, 309-312 (2009)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[503] arXiv:1602.06377 [pdf, other]

Title: Test of the universality of free fall with atoms in different spin orientations

Xiao-Chun Duan, Xiao-Bing Deng, Min-Kang Zhou, Ke Zhang, Wen-Jie Xu, Feng Xiong, Yao-Yao Xu, Cheng-Gang Shao, Jun Luo, Zhong-Kun Hu

Comments: 12 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1503.00433

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)

[504] arXiv:1602.06388 [pdf, other]

Title: Using Analogies to Learn Introductory Physics

Shih-Yin Lin, Chandralekha Singh

Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1602.05689

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[505] arXiv:1602.06389 [pdf, other]

Title: Using Analogy to Solve a Three-Step Physics Problem

Shih-Yin Lin, Chandralekha Singh

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[506] arXiv:1602.06390 [pdf, other]

Title: Using Analogical Problem Solving with Different Scaffolding Supports to Learn about Friction

Shih-Yin Lin, Chandralekha Singh

Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1602.05697

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[507] arXiv:1602.06391 [pdf, other]

Title: The group administered interactive questionnaire: An alternative to individual interviews

Edit Yerushalmi, Charles R. Henderson, William Mamudi, Chandralekha Singh, Shih-Yin Lin

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[508] arXiv:1602.06392 [pdf, other]

Title: TA-designed vs. research-oriented problem solutions

Shih-Yin Lin, Chandralekha Singh, William Mamudi, Charles R. Henderson, Edit Yerushalmi

Comments: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1602.05727

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[509] arXiv:1602.06397 [pdf, other]

Title: High solar cycle spectral variations inconsistent with stratospheric ozone observations

W.T. Ball, J.D. Haigh, E.V. Rozanov, A. Kuchar, T. Sukhodolov, F. Tummon, A.V. Shapiro, W. Schmutz

Comments: This is the original version submitted to Nature Geoscience in July 2015 with the title "Ozone observations reveal lower solar cycle spectral variations", this has changed to the one given above. 4 Figures, Nature Geoscience, 2016, this http URL

Subjects: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)

[510] arXiv:1602.06405 [pdf, other]

Title: Interaction of atom with non-paraxial Laguerre-Gaussian beam:Forming superposition of vortex states in Bose-Einstein condensates

Anal Bhowmik, Pradip Kumar Mondal, Sonjoy Majumder, Bimalendu Deb

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Physical Review A 93, 063852 (2016)

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[511] arXiv:1602.06415 [pdf, other]

Title: Proton entry into the near-lunar plasma wake for magnetic field aligned flow

M. B. Dhanya, Anil Bhardwaj, Y. Futaana, S. Fatemi, M. Holmström, S. Barabash, M. Wieser, P. Wurz, A. Alok, R. S. Thampi

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 2913-2917 (2013)

Subjects: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[512] arXiv:1602.06423 [pdf, other]

Title: Challenges in Analogical Reasoning

Shih-Yin Lin, Chandralekha Singh

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[513] arXiv:1602.06424 [pdf, other]

Title: Characteristics of proton velocity distribution functions in the near-lunar wake from Chandrayaan-1/SWIM observations

M B Dhanya, Anil Bhardwaj, Yoshifumi Futaana, Stas Barabash, Abhinaw Alok, Martin Wieser, Mats Holmström, Peter Wurz

Comments: 8 figures, paper accepted in Icarus (2016), this http URL

Subjects: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[514] arXiv:1602.06428 [pdf, other]

Title: Mathematical modeling of interdigitated electrode arrays in finite electrochemical cells

Cristian Guajardo, Sirimarn Ngamchana, Werasak Surareungchai

Journal-ref: Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2013, 705, 19-29

Subjects: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[515] arXiv:1602.06441 [pdf, other]

Title: What Can Learn from PER: Physics Education Research?

Chandralekha Singh

Comments: 2 pages, PACS: 01.40Fk, this http URL, 01.40G-,this http URL, Keywords: Physics Education Research, Physics Pedagogy, Teaching, Learning. Abstract (Note by Diane Riendeau, Column Editor for "For the New Teacher" of The Physics Teacher Journal)

Journal-ref: The Physics Teacher, 52, 568-569, (2014)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[516] arXiv:1602.06447 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics of a bacterial flagellum under reverse rotation

Tapan Chandra Adhyapak, Holger Stark

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[517] arXiv:1602.06465 [pdf, other]

Title: Creating Airy beams employing a transmissive spatial light modulator

Tatiana Latychevskaia, Daniel Schachtler, Hans-Werner Fink

Journal-ref: Applied Optics 55, 6095-6101 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[518] arXiv:1602.06497 [pdf, other]

Title: Multiple-choice test of energy and momentum concepts

Chandralekha Singh, David Rosengrant

Comments: 11 pages, PACS: 01.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-,this http URL, Keywords: physics education research, teaching, learning, pedagogy, assessment, multiple-choice test, energy, momentum

Journal-ref: Am. J. Phys, 71(6), 607-617, (2003)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[519] arXiv:1602.06499 [pdf, other]

Title: Assessing Student Expertise in Introductory Physics with Isomorphic Problems, Part I: Performance on Non-intuitive Problem Pair from Introductory Physics

Chandralekha Singh

Comments: 9 pages, PACS: 01.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-,this http URL, Keywords: Physics Education Research, problem solving, epxertise, isomorphic problems, analogy, transfer

Journal-ref: Physical Review Special Topics Physics Education Research 4, 010104(1-9), (2008)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[520] arXiv:1602.06533 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantitative discrimination between oil and water in drilled bore cores via fast-neutron resonance transmission radiography

D. Vartsky, M. B. Goldberg, V. Dangendorf, I. Israelashvili, I. Mor, D. Bar, K. Tittelmeier, M. Weierganz, A. Breskin

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures, patent pending

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[521] arXiv:1602.06552 [pdf, other]

Title: Diagrammatic Explanation of the Reverse Doppler Effect in Space-Time Modulated Photonic Crystals

Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger, Maksim Skorobogatiy, Christophe Caloz

Comments: Submitted to 2016 AP-S Symposium. 2 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[522] arXiv:1602.06554 [pdf, other]

Title: Nonlinear electromagnetic formulation for particle simulation of lower hybrid waves in toroidal geometry

J. Bao, Z. Lin, A. Kuley, Z. X. Wang

Journal-ref: Physics.Plasmas. 23 (2016) 062501

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[523] arXiv:1602.06574 [pdf, other]

Title: Electronic isotope shift factors for the Cu $4s \; ^2S_{1/2} - 4p \; ^2P^o_{3/2}$ line

Thomas Carette, Michel Godefroid

Comments: Complementary material to reference [2]

Subjects: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[524] arXiv:1602.06601 [pdf, other]

Title: Light-Matter Interaction: Conversion of Optical Energy and Momentum to Mechanical Vibrations and Phonons

Masud Mansuripur

Comments: 34 pages, 19 figures, 89 equations, 11 references

Journal-ref: Published in Quantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics XIII, edited by M. Razeghi, G.J. Brown, and J.S. Lewis, Proceedings of SPIE Vol.9755, 975521~1-34 (2016)

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)

[525] arXiv:1602.06611 [pdf, other]

Title: Remote Nanodiamond Magnetometry

Yinlan Ruan, David A. Simpson, Jan Jeske, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Desmond W. M. Lau, Hong Ji, Brett C. Johnson, Takeshi Ohshima, Shahraam Afshar V., Lloyd Hollenberg, Andrew D. Greentree, Tanya M. Monro, Brant C. Gibson

Comments: 10 pages,4 figures

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics)

[526] arXiv:1602.06635 [pdf, other]

Title: Clock Distributing for BaF2 Readout Electronics at CSNS-WNS

Bing He, Ping Cao, De-Liang-Zhang, Qi Wang, Ya-Xi Zhang, Xin-Cheng Qi, Qi-An

Comments: 5 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[527] arXiv:1602.06637 [pdf, other]

Title: When physical intuition fails

Chandralekha Singh

Comments: 7 pages, PACS: 01.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-,this http URL; keywords: physics education research, expertise, intuition, problem solving, expert-novice differences, non-intuitive problem

Journal-ref: Am. J. Phys, 70(11), 1103-1109, (2002)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[528] arXiv:1602.06638 [pdf, other]

Title: Efficient and accurate methods for solving the time-dependent spin-1 Gross-Pitaevskii equation

L. M. Symes, R. I. McLachlan, P. B. Blakie

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 93, 053309 (2016)

Subjects: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)

[529] arXiv:1602.06649 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Upper Ocean Turbulent Dissipation Rate due to Very Short Breaking Wind-Waves

Michael L. Banner, Russel P. Morison

Comments: 17 pages, 13 figures

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)

[530] arXiv:1602.06660 [pdf, other]

Title: Student understanding of quantum mechanics at the beginning of graduate instruction

Chandralekha Singh

Comments: 11 pages, PACS: 01.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-,this http URL, Keywords: physics education research, quantum mechanics, teaching, learning, pedagogy, student difficulties. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1504.02056, arXiv:1602.05616

Journal-ref: Am. J. Phys., 76(3), 277-287, (2008)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[531] arXiv:1602.06666 [pdf, other]

Title: Helping Students Learn Quantum Mechanics for Quantum Computing

Chandralekha Singh

Comments: 4 pages, PACS: 1.40Fk,this http URL,01.40G-, Keywords: physics education research, pedagogy, teaching, learning, quantum mechanics, Proceedings of the 2006 Physics Education Research Conference, Syracuse, NY, AIP Conference Proceedings, Melville New York 883, 42-45, (2007)

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)

[532] arXiv:1602.06672 [pdf, other]

Title: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method for Two-dimensional Stefan Problem

Dede Tarwidi

Comments: Selected Paper from The 5th International Symposium on Computational Sciences (ISCS), 28 May 2012, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[533] arXiv:1602.06712 [pdf, other]

Title: Dense granular flow rheology in turbulent bedload transport

Raphael Maurin, Julien Chauchat, Philippe Frey

Journal-ref: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 804, pp. 490-512 (2016)

Subjects: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)

[534] arXiv:1602.06714 [pdf, other]

Title: Zonal flows as statistical equilibria

F Bouchet (Phys-ENS), Antoine Venaille (Phys-ENS)

Comments: To appear as a chapter in "Zonal Jets" edited by B. Galperin and P. Read, Cambridge University Press

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)

[535] arXiv:1602.06720 [pdf, other]

Title: Fluctuations of large-scale jets in the stochastic 2D Euler equation

Cesare Nardini (DAMTP/CMS), Tomás Tangarife (Phys-ENS)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[536] arXiv:1602.06747 [pdf, other]

Title: Verification of BOUT++ by the Method of Manufactured Solutions

Ben Dudson, Jens Madsen, John Omotani, Peter Hill, Luke Easy, Michael Løiten

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[537] arXiv:1602.06750 [pdf, other]

Title: Features of non-congruent phase transition in modified Coulomb model of the binary ionic mixture

N E Stroev, I L Iosilevskiy

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[538] arXiv:1602.06762 [pdf, other]

Title: Time and Energy Measurement Electronics for Silicon Drift Detector Aimed for X-ray Pulsar Navigation

Er-Lei Chen, Chang-Qing Feng, Chun-Feng Ye, Shu-Bin Liu, Dong-Dong Jin, Jian Lian, Hui-Jun Hu

Comments: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial sign error in paper 5

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[539] arXiv:1602.06775 [pdf, other]

Title: A stochastic model for non-relativistic particle acceleration

G. Pallocchia, M. Laurenza, G. Consolini

Subjects: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[540] arXiv:1602.06801 [pdf, other]

Title: Resistive method for measuring the disintegration speed of Prince Rupert's drops

Daria Gusenkova, Mark Bochkov, Evgenii Glushkov, Julia Zotova, S. N. Zhabin

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[541] arXiv:1602.06802 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical optimal modulation frequencies for scattering parameter estimation and ballistic photon filtering in diffusive media

Swapnesh Panigrahi, Julien Fade, Hema Ramachandran, Mehdi Alouini

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)

[542] arXiv:1602.06806 [pdf, other]

Title: GodunovSPH with shear viscosity : implementation and tests

Seung-Hoon Cha, Matt A. Wood

Comments: Accepted in MNRAS

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[543] arXiv:1602.06826 [pdf, other]

Title: Turbulent transport of MeV range cyclotron heated minorities as compared to alpha particles

István Pusztai, George J. Wilkie, Yevgen O. Kazakov, Tünde Fülöp

Comments: Submitted to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

[544] arXiv:1602.06830 [pdf, other]

Title: An immersed boundary method for solving compressible flow with arbitrarily irregular and moving geometry

Huangrui Mo, Fue-Sang Lien, Fan Zhang, Duane S. Cronin

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)

[545] arXiv:1602.06835 [pdf, other]

Title: Step by Step to Peace in Syria

Raphael Parens, Yaneer Bar-Yam

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, New England Complex Systems Institute Report 2016-02-03

Subjects: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[546] arXiv:1602.06846 [pdf, other]

Title: Design of broadband high-efficiency superconducting-nanowire single photon detectors

Luca Redaelli, Gabriele Bulgarini, Sergiy Dobrovolskiy, Sander N. Dorenbos, Val Zwiller, Eva Monroy, Jean-Michel Gérard

Subjects: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det); Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con); Optics (physics.optics)

[547] arXiv:1602.06850 [pdf, other]

Title: Close-Form Expression of One-Tap Normalized LMS Carrier Phase Recovery in Optical Communication Systems

Tianhua Xu, Gunnar Jacobsen, Sergei Popov, Jie Li, Tiegen Liu, Yimo Zhang

Comments: [SPIE] International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications (ICWOC) 2016, W22

Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Information Theory (cs.IT)

[548] arXiv:1602.06852 [pdf, other]

Title: Energy cascade in internal wave attractors

Christophe Brouzet (Phys-ENS), Evgeny Ermanyuk (Phys-ENS), Sylvain Joubaud (Phys-ENS), Ilias Sibgatullin (Phys-ENS, SIO), Thierry Dauxois (Phys-ENS)

Journal-ref: Europhysics Letters 113, 44001 (2016)

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)

[549] arXiv:1602.06853 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-linear vorticity upsurge in Burgers' flow

F. Lam

Comments: 32 pages and 17 figures (17 ps files). Corrections of typos with minor re-wording

Subjects: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)

[550] arXiv:1602.06858 [pdf, other]

Title: Demonstrating Martian Gravity

Patrik Pirkola, Patrick B. Hall

Comments: 2015 Phys. Educ. 50 643

Subjects: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)