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James A. McNeil, Professor
Physics Department
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: (303) 273-3844 (CSM), 303-492-3670 (CU) Fax: (303) 273-3919
email: jamcneil@mines.edu
schedule: Schedule
Biographic sketch: Biography/Research Interests

Education:

B.S., Physics, Lafayette College (1970)
M.S. & Ph.D, University of Maryland (1979)

People

Nuclear Physics Group 1997 Photo (485kB)
Nuclear Theory Group 2000 Photo (1.2MB)

Nuclear Theory Papers

Chiral model of the nucleon
Renormalization group with fermions
Renormalization group on the lattice

Physics Education Research

Designing Design into the Introductory Electromagnetism Laboratory (Sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation)
"The Metal Detector and Faraday's Law", J. A. McNeil, The Physics Teacher Vol. 42, page 369, September, 2004.

Teaching Interests:

Introductory Electromagnetism PHGN200
Introduction to Modern Physics PHGN300
Thermal Physics PHGN341
Nuclear Physics PHGN422
Computational Physics PHGN450
Nuclear Reactor Physics
Advanced E&M and Optical Physics PHGN462

Mathematica Notebooks:

Neutron Diffusion
Moderation
1-group Flux Profile
2-group Flux Profile
Temperature dependence of resonance capture
Reactor Kinetics
Fuchs Model for Pulsing the GSTR

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Personal Interests:

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Send comments & questions to jamcneil@mines.eduLast Modified: October 24, 2008