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Department of Physics The Citadel 171 Moultrie Street Charleston, SC 29409 216 Grimsley Hall Phone: 843-953-5475 Fax: 843-953-1832 scott.yost@citadel.edu |
C O U R S E S T A U G H T
A C A D E M I C H I S T O R Y
The Citadel
- Physics 416: Advanced Topics in Physics
Spring 2010, Spring 2009 - Physics 222: Physics with Calculus II
Calculus-based introduction to thermodynamics, electricity & magnetism
Spring 2010, Spring 2009 - Physics 272: Laboratory for General Physics II
Calculus-based introductory physics laboratory
Spring 2010, Spring 2009 - Physics 221: Physics with Calculus I
Calculus-based introduction to mechanics
Fall 2009, Fall 2008 - Physics 253: Laboratory for College Physics I
Non-calculus introductory physics laboratory
Fall 2009, Fall 2008
- Physics 104: General Physics
Calculus-based introduction to electicity & magnetism
Spring 2008 - Physics 103: General Physics
Calculus-based introduction to mechanics
Fall 2007
- S. Zaman, Two-Soliton Dynamics in the Skyrme Model (Senior Thesis, May 2008)
- M. Hejna, Improved Monte Carlo Event Generator for Drell-Yan Processes at the LHC (Graduate Experimental Project, Oct. 2008)
- Physics 1422: General Physics I-A
Introduction to mechanics, with concurrent calculus
Spring 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004 - Physics 1425: General Physics I
Calculus-based introduction to mechanics, thermodynamics
Spring 2004, Fall 2003
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Physics 222: Elements of Physics II
Non-calculus electricity & magnetism, optics, modern physics
Summer 2003, Summer 2002 - Astronomy 162: Introduction to Astronomy II
Introductory stellar and galactic astronomy, cosmology
Spring 2003
- Astronomy 161: Introduction to Astronomy I
Introductory astronomy, the solar system
Fall 2002
- Physics 101: How Things Work I
Conceptual introduction to physics in our life
Fall 2002 - Physics 221 Laboratory and Recitations
Non-calculus mechanics and thermodynamics
Spring 2002, Fall 2001
The Citadel
Department of Physics
| Assistant Professor | 2008- |
Princeton University
Department of Physics
| Visiting Research Scholar | Summer 2009 | |
| Visiting Associate Professor | 2007-08 |
Baylor University
Department of Physics
| Associate Professor | 2004-07 | |
| Visiting Associate Professor | Fall 2003 |
University of Tennessee
Department of Physics & Astronomy
| Lecturer | 2002-03 | |
| Research Associate Professor | 1996-2002 | |
| Research Assistant Professor | 1993-96 | |
| Postdoctoral Associate | 1991-93 |
University of Florida
Department of Physics (IFT)
| Postdoctoral Associate | 1987-91 |
Princeton University
| Ph.D. in Physics | 1987 | |
| Dissertation: String Loops in Background Fields | ||
Carnegie Mellon University
| B.S. in Physics | 1982 | |
| B.S. in Mathematics | 1982 |
W E B L I N K S
- My non-academic web site
- Virtual Interactive Center
the internet company I co-founded - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
- CMS Luminosity Project
- Software by collaborators
- Mikhail Kalmykov's page
- M. Hoffmann's Mathematical Links
- My slippery ladder demonstration
- CAPA Online Homework Systems at Baylor and UT.
(I developed parts of the interface for these installations.) - LON-CAPA CAPA's replacement
- Today's arXiv e-Prints
- AIP Journals
- Elsevier Physics Journals
- World Scientific Journals
- IOP Journals
- Personal e-Print Collection (pre-laptop era)
- Frequency of a mass on a massive spring
(PDF, inspired by a UT PHYS221 lab.) - Musical compositions