David P. Murdock

Professor of Physics, TTU

Office: Bruner Hall 221.

Phone: (931) 372-3044. E-Mail: MURDOCK@TNTECH.EDU

About Me:

I teach physics courses at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. I have been here since 1989; I spend my summers at Indiana University in Bloomington. My research work has been in intermediate-energy nuclear theory, but lately has been in the area of electron motion in two dimensions ("quantum wires"). For details, see:

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I grew up in Pico Rivera, California, which is about 15 miles East of Los Angeles.
My education took me through some interesting places as I went from Experimental Chemical Physics to Experimental Nuclear Physics to Theoretical Nuclear Physics. I attended:
- Caltech, [BA in Chemistry, 1976]
- University of Colorado, [MS in Physics, 1983]
- MIT, [Ph.D. in Physics, 1987]
after which I did two years of post-doctoral work at the Nuclear Theory Center of IUCF, at Indiana University. In 1989, I came to TTU.
I love doing physics; I decided to make theoretical physics my career because I enjoy applied mathematics and am intrigued by the idea that it can be used to predict the detailed behavior of the objects in the world around us, from the carts rolling on tracks in our Phys 2111 labs down to the electrons in atoms and the quarks and gluons inside the nucleon. It is fun and challenging to try to understand the laws which tell us how the universe works and to try to impart some of the beauty and utility of this subject to students. No foolin'.

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