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Daniel W. Koon's scholarship page Office: Bewkes Hall 221  Phone: (315) 229-5494  Fax: (315) 229-7421  Email: dkoon@stlawu.edu                     Mailing address:          Dept. of Physics St. Lawrence University  Canton, NY 13617  USA                      Curriculum vitae, professional genealogy PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: Abstracts: Charge transport metrology Biological Optics Powerpoint Presentations: Read for yourself. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Charge transport (resistivity and Hall effect): The phenomenology of electrical measurement:  What do you measure when you measure resistivity? the Hall effect? What do you measure when you measure resistivity/Hall... for crosses, cloverleafs, and bars?, in 3D? Experimental results: Resistivity, Hall effect Hydriding in metals: Centro de Investigación en Ciencia e Ingeniería de Materiales (CICIMA) and Escuela de Física of the University of Costa Rica. The Hall effect near the metal-insulator transition in heavily doped semiconductors  Table of Hall coefficients of some metals  Pathological biooptics: The myth of butterfly thin films as solar collectors: Bibliography, A comment The reality: butterfly thin films as sunblocks The myth of fiber optic polar bear hair: Bibliography , the data, some polar nonsense Pedagogy Using science fiction to teach science, fiction, and communications skills -- with Jonathan Gottschall Using muon physics to teach relativity, radiation, and instrumentation -- with Jeremy Ouellette, SLU '04 Some recent student Advanced Laboratory Projects  2005-6: Hydrogen absorption in palladium 2003-4: Muon flux and energy at sea level 2002-3: Investigating Rayleigh scattering with a homemade video-camera spectrometer 2001-2: Impedance spectroscopy of bananas 1998-9: The optics of iridescent butterflies, Measurement of the resistivity and Hall weighting functions 1997-8: The optics of ulexite ("TV rock") 1997-8: Is polar bear hair fiber optic? 1996-7: Optical upconversion 1996-7: Fiber-optic position sensor Introducing Physics to Nonmajors through Optics (NSF DUE award #9551787) Physics for Non-Science Majors: Strengthening the Laboratory Component at St. Lawrence (NSF DUE #9051695) Teaching physics in a combined lecture/lab format: Click here for some Fall Labs and Spring Labs I have written.  The Android Times, an online magazine of science fiction written by my FYP/FYS students and me. Teaching communications: resources for teachers of communications Global Science fiction webpages: Cuban science fiction Argentine science fiction Science fiction from the ezine Axxón Costa Rican science fiction "KoonWare": Some of my own software, mostly physics teaching applications. Return to Koon's homepage. Return to SLU PhysicsDept.