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Daniel V. Schroeder

Department of Physics
Weber State University
2508 University Circle
Ogden, UT 84408-2508
USA
Phone: (801) 626-6048
FAX: (801) 626-7445
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I was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in the suburb of Webster Groves. From 1980-84 I attended Carleton College, and from 1984-90 I was a graduate student at Stanford University, where I spent most of my time at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. I taught physics at Pomona College for one year and at Grinnell College for two years before coming to Weber State in 1993.

Web pages of past courses:

Honors 1500, Perspectives in the Physical Sciences, "Energy, Entropy, and Everything".
Honors 1500, Perspectives in the Physical Sciences, "Deep Space and Deep Time."
Physics 2010, General Physics I.
Physics 3180, Thermal Physics.

My research in high-energy physics has been mainly on beam-beam interactions at future linear colliders. For a brief overview of these proposed machines, see the Next Linear Collider page at the University of Pennsylvania. For a longer introduction, see the High Energy Physics article (for general readers) or the Japan Linear Collider pages (more technical) at the KEK laboratory.

An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, by Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder, Addison-Wesley Advanced Book Program (now Perseus Books), Reading, MA, 1995. (This book is full of errors.)
An Introduction to Thermal Physics, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, San Francisco, CA, 1999.

Review of Atmospheric Thermodynamics by Craig F. Bohren and Bruce A. Albrecht, American Journal of Physics 68, 1159-1160 (2000).
Thomas A. Moore and Daniel V. Schroeder, "A Different Approach to Introducing Statistical Mechanics", American Journal of Physics 65, 26-36 (1997). Click here to download this paper in pdf format (296k).
Daniel V. Schroeder, "Renormalization", in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics, Macmillan, New York, 1996.
Daniel V. Schroeder and Zu Xin Yu, "Fractional Luminosity Near Maximum Energy in the Presence of Beamstrahlung", in Physics and Experiments with Linear e+e- Colliders, ed. F. A. Harris, et. al., World Scientific, Singapore, 1993.
Daniel V. Schroeder and Thomas A. Moore, "A Computer-Simulated Stern-Gerlach Laboratory", American Journal of Physics 61, 798-805 (1993).
P. Chen, T. Tauchi, and D. V. Schroeder, "Pair Creation at Large Inherent Angles", in Research Directions for the Decade: Snowmass 1990, ed. E. L. Berger, World Scientific, Singapore, 1992.
Daniel V. Schroeder, Beamstrahlung and QED Backgrounds at Future Linear Colliders, Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, 1990 (SLAC-Report-371).

Physics educational software
Mathematica tutorial for physics students
Energy First and Foremost in Physics 101 is a talk that I gave at the 2002 summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers.
Feynman Diagrams and Electron-Positron Annihilation is a set of curricular materials that I'm currently working on.
At the 2000 summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers in Guelph, Ontario, I presented a talk titled "From Clouds to Cosmology: New and Old Applications of Thermal Physics." Here is a pdf version of the handout that summarizes most of the talk.
The Undergraduate Thermal Physics Course: Who Should Take it and Why? is a talk that I gave at a conference of physics educators in June 2000.
Purcell Simplified: Magnetism, Radiation, and Relativity is a talk that I gave at the 1999 Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (Anaheim, CA, 14 January 1999).
Long ago I produced an index for my favorite introductory sky observer's guidebook, 365 Starry Nights by Chet Raymo.
I've also written an informal paper discussing prices of physics textbooks.

Book review editor, American Journal of Physics.
President, Idaho-Utah Section, American Association of Physics Teachers, 2003-2004. In this capacity I organized the Section's 2003 annual meeting at WSU.
Editorial Board member, American Journal of Physics, 1998-2000.

Last modified on 4 January 2008.