R. Daniel Purrington, Ph.D.

Professor

 

Office: 5050 Percival Stern Hall

Office Phone: (504) 862-3177

 

Lab(s):

Lab Phone:

 

Fax: (504) 862-8702

 

Email: danny@tulane.edu

 

Other Sites: Personal Website

Research Interests:

Nuclear Physics & History of Physics

 

Recent Courses:

ASTR 100 – Descriptive Astronomy

ASTR 110 – Observational Astronomy

PHYS 374 – Classical Mechanics

PHYS 723/4 – Electromagnetic Theory I & II

ASTR 301 – Archaeoastronomy

 

Education:

Ph.D., Texas A&M, (1966)

 

Recent Publications:

R. D. Purrington, "Bottom scattering in acoustic propagation modeling," J. Comput. Acoust. 2, 147-160 (1994).

R. D. Purrington, "Scattering kernal approach to bottom loss and scattering in a parabolic equation model," Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, 385-398 (1996).

R. D. Purrington, Physics in the Nineteenth Century, Rutgers University Press. (1997)