Dr. Eduardo Sánchez Velasco

Department of Physics
Truman State University

Research Interests

• Wave propagation. Surface elastic waves
• Ray theory and caustic formation
• Physics of imaging. Seismic and X-ray imaging
• Mathematical physics. Differential geometry
• Foundations of quantum mechanics
• Quantum optics and quantum electronics
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Numerical simulations in statistical mechanics
• Phase transitions and critical phenomena
• Cosmology. Dark Energy.

Sample Publications

• Fundamentals of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: Lecture Notes.
  Second Edition. CreateSpace Publishing (2010).
• Fundamentals of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: Lecture Notes.
  BookSurge Publishing (2008).
• A simple derivation of a result in electrostatics.
  SIAM Review 40 (1998) 915-917.
• When does thermodynamic work admit an integrating factor?
  European Journal of Physics 18 (1997) 18-21.
• Microcanonical evidence of a first order phase transition in the 4-D U(1) lattice gauge theory.
  Physical Review E 54 (1996) 5819-5821.
• The transistor effect in improperly connected transistors.
  The Physics Teacher 34 (1996) 118-119.

Some Student Research Projects

• Algebraic Reconstruction Technique in Computed Tomography
  Rachel McCarroll
• Analog Simulation of Memristors
  Bhupendra Subedi
• Quantum Computer Science
  Travis Grider
• Hydraulic Jump
  Martín DiStefano
• Monte Carlo Simulations of Spin Systems
  John Cobb
• Dark Energy
  Sucheta Jawalkar
• Thermodynamic Properties of Fermions
  Adair Crow
• Fluorescence Experiments with a Nirogen Laser
  Rob Groceman
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
  Benjamin Richards
• Laser Spectroscopy of Rubidium
  Beth Lusczek
• Minority Carrier Lifetime in the Base of a Phototransistor
  Katie Cadwell
• Lattice Gas Simulation of Fluid Flow.
  ** First Place MAS Collegiate Division Award 1998 **
  Aleksey Zimin
• Hidden Variables and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  Jonathan Morris

If you are interested on doing research with me, on any topic,
please stop by my office (MG-3170) or e-mail me at:
velasco@truman.edu .

"…it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory" – Sir Arthur Eddington