Dr. Eric Ayars

Publications and Talks

Eric Ayars "A Versatile Text for the Introductory Computational Physics Course" Computing in Science and Engineering 9: (6) 60-61, 2007.

D. Bowen and E. Ayars "Quantitative measurements of non-Newtonian fluid properties", Poster presented at American Association of Physics Teachers National meeting, July 2007.

E. Ayars "Phonons in a One-Dimensional Crystal", Workshop presented at American Association of Physics Teachers National meeting, July 29 2007.

E. Ayars "Ruchardt's Measurement of Gamma Using A Ground-Glass Syringe", Workshop presented at American Association of Physics Teachers National meeting, July 28 2007.

E. Ayars "Tell Me Why: Electricity and Electrical Safety --- an illustration of the challenges facing physics educators" Physics department seminar, February 2007

E. Ayars Review of "Computational Physics (second edition)" Nicholas J. Giordano and Hisao Nakanishi; and "An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods: Applications to Physical Systems (third edition)" Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik, and Wolfgang Christian. American Journal of Physics 74: (7) 652-653, 2006.

Eric Ayars and Tim Erickson "Falsification Labs", Workshop presented at American Association of Physics Teachers national meeting, July 2006.

Tiara Norris, Brendan Diamond, and Eric Ayars "Magnetically coupled rotors" American Journal of Physics 74: (9) 806-809, 2006.

Tiara Norris, Brendan Diamond, and Eric Ayars "Modeling of Magnetically Coupled Rotors" Poster presented at American Association of Physics Teachers national meeting, January 2006.

Tim Erickson and Eric Ayars "Fake papers as investigation prompts" Physics Education 40: (6) 550--555, 2005

E. Ayars Review of Practical Interfacing in the Laboratory: Using a PC for Instrumentation, Data Analysis, and Control by Steven E. Derenzo The Physics Teacher 43: (6) 400, 2005.

E. Ayars "Use of Python in the Introductory Computational Physics Course" Presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers national meeting, August 2005.

J. Livingston, W. Murphy, E. Ayars "Acid mine Drainage and Metal Sulfate Minerals" Poster presented at CSUC College of Natural Sciences Annual Poster Session, April 2005.

E. Ayars "Analysis of the Vacuum Cannon" Presented at NCN-AAPT meeting, Palo Alto CA, November 2004.

E. Ayars "Vacuum Cannon Velocity Limit" Poster presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers national meeting, August 2004.

E. Ayars, L. Buchholtz "Analysis of the Vacuum Cannon" American Journal of Physics 72: (7) 961--963, 2004.

E. Ayars "Near-Field Raman Spectroscopy" in Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

H. D. Hallen, E. J. Ayars, C. L. Jahncke "The effects of probe boundary conditions and propagation on nano-Raman spectroscopy" Journal of Microscopy 210: 252--254, 2003.

"Spectroscopy gets up close and personal" (interview) Chemical and Engineering News, 30--31, April 30, 2001.

E. J. Ayars, C. L. Jahncke, M. A. Paesler, H. D. Hallen "Fundamental differences between micro- and nano-Raman spectroscopy" Journal of Microscopy 202: 142--147, 2001.

E. Ayars "Electric field gradient effects in NSOM-Raman spectroscopy" Invited talk presented at the American Chemical Society national meeting, April 2001.

E. J. Ayars, H. D. Hallen, C. L. Jahncke "Electric field gradient effects in Raman spectroscopy" Physical Review Letters 85: 4180--4183, 2000.

E. J. Ayars, H. D. Hallen, C. L. Jahncke "Surface enhancement in near-field Raman spectroscopy" Applied Physics Letters 76: 3911--3914, 2000.

E. Ayars "Recent developments in near-field Raman spectroscopy" Invited talk presented at the International Union of Microbeam Analysis Societies conference (IUMAS-2000), July 2000.

E. Ayars, D. Aspnes, P. Moyer, M. A. Paesler "Proximal electromagnetic shear forces" Journal of Microscopy 196: 59--60, 1999.

E. Ayars "Near-Field Enhancement of Raman Spectra" Presented at Southeast Section American Physical Society, Chapel Hill NC, November 1999.

E. Ayars "Some Interesting Effects in NSOM-Raman" Presented at American Physical Society, Atlanta GA, March 1999.

E. Ayars "Near-Field Effects in Nano-Raman Spectroscopy" Presented at American Physical Society, Los Angeles CA, March 1998.

E. J. Ayars "Non-Physical Results with the Electric-Field Mapping Experiment" The Physics Teacher 34: 344--345, 1996.

E. Ayars "Non-Physical Results with the Electric-Field Mapping Experiment" Presented at North Carolina American Association of Physics Teachers section meeting, March 1996.