Paul Voytas
Professor (and Chair) of Physics, Wittenberg
University
Teaching :
Spring 2023
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Research and Scholarly
Interests
- I
am involved, with Dr. Elizabeth George (Wittenberg) and
collaborators
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on a project to
study the weak interaction in the beta decay of 14O.
- I
am also involved, with Dr. George on the phenomenon of
Light Induced Atom Desorption.
- I
have primarily been studying the Weak Interaction. This is
the fundamental interaction responsible for (among other
things) nuclear beta decay and is often just referred to as
"the fourth fundamental force of nature" (to go along with
gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong nuclear force).
Much of my actual experimental work has involved using
lasers to manipulate radioactive atoms in order to study
their properties or beta decays in more detail, with more
precision and control. This has involved work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
as well as work at the SUNY Stony Brook Nuclear Physics
Lab. Commentary
by Luis Orozco on Francium.
Physics Links
Nobel Prizes in Physics
Physics World
Net Advance of Physics
Journal of Undergraduate Reports in Physics
SPS (Society of Physics Students) National Page
Research Journals of the American Physical SocietyRecently found physics quote I like:
It has only to do with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of men, our love of culture. It has to do with: Are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets? I mean all the things we really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending.
Robert Wilson in testimony to Congress concerning the largest at the time accelerator proposed for National Accelerator Laboratory (Later Fermi NAL aka Fermilab).
Curriculum
Vitae , including list of publications
Professional Affiliations:
7
American Physical
Society
o Division of Nuclear
Physics
o Division of Astrophysics
o Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
o Division of Laser Science
o Forum on Physics and
Society
o Forum on the History
of Physics
o Forum on Education
o Eastern
Great Lakes Section (EGLS)
7
American Association
of Physics Teachers
o Southern Ohio Section
My favorite physics software
Extrema (Data analysis and graphing)
Gnuplot (Graphing and Data analysis)
Octave (Graphing, Modeling, analysis)
Maxima (Symbolic math, graphing, modeling, and data analysis)
My favorite other software
Arachnophilia (html, etc. coding)
Cartes du Ciel (Star chart software)
Open office (Office suite software--word processing, spreadsheet, presentaion, etc.)
Teraterm (Terminsal emulation software, ssh,ssh2, tektronix emulation)
Irfanview (image display/edit/conversion)
Personal Links/Fun Stuff:
- Pictures
of Abby who we miss very much.
- A
picture from
our trip down the Colorado in summer of 2000.
Wittenberg
Physics home page
Wittenberg University home
page
pvoytas@wittenberg.edu
Last
modified: 1/02/2022 pav