Daniel F. Styer
American theoretical physicist and author
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Daniel F. Styer's Degrees
- PhD Physics Cornell University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Daniel F. Styer is an American theoretical physicist and distinguished professor of physics at Oberlin College. He is author of several books on theoretical physics. Education and career Styer obtained his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1977, majoring in physics. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1983 from Cornell University on Partial Differential Approximants and Applications to Statistical Mechanics. Subsequently, he worked at Rutgers University until 1985 as postdoctoral fellow. He started working at Oberlin College in the physics department in 1985, became full professor in 1998, and was awarded the John and Marianne Schiffer Professorship in physics in 2007.
Daniel F. Styer's Published Works
Published Works
- Nine formulations of quantum mechanics (2002) (216)
- Problems of Quantum Mechanics (2002) (152)
- Common misconceptions regarding quantum mechanics (1996) (148)
- Insight into entropy (2000) (94)
- The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics (2000) (58)
- Quantum revivals versus classical periodicity in the infinite square well (2000) (54)
- Phase diagram of Cu-Au-type alloys (1985) (36)
- The motion of wave packets through their expectation values and uncertainties (1990) (32)
- Entropy and evolution (2008) (28)
- How do two moving clocks fall out of sync? A tale of trucks, threads, and twins (2007) (24)
- Quantum Mechanics Simulations: The Consortium for Upper-Level Physics Software (1995) (22)
- The Dobrushin-Shlosman phase uniqueness criterion and applications to hard squares (1987) (19)
- Quantum Mechanics Using Maple (1995) (18)
- What good is the thermodynamic limit (2004) (18)
- Getting there is half the fun (1998) (15)
- Erratum: ‘‘Common misconceptions regarding quantum mechanics’’ [Am. J. Phys. 64(1), 31–34 (1996)] (1996) (14)
- Subroutine library for partial differential approximants (1990) (11)
- Partial differential approximants for multivariable power series. I. Definitions and faithfulness (1982) (11)
- Vasserstein distances in two-state systems (1989) (8)
- Quantum Theory—Interpretation, Formulation, Inspiration (2000) (8)
- The geometrical significance of the Laplacian (2015) (8)
- Ground-state energy of metallic hydrogen in the Wigner-Seitz approximation (1984) (7)
- The word “force” (2001) (6)
- Partial differential approximants for multivariable power series. II. Invariance properties (1983) (6)
- Visualizing Poynting vector energy flow in electric circuits (2012) (5)
- The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments (2011) (5)
- Partial differential approximants for multivariable power series. III. Enumeration of invariance transformations (1983) (4)
- Simple derivation of Lagrange’s three‐body equilibrium (1990) (4)
- A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics (2000) (3)
- Answer to Question #52. Group velocity and energy propagation (1998) (2)
- Partial differential approximants and the elucidation of multisingularities (1984) (2)
- The size function in two-dimensional bond percolation: a series analysis (1988) (2)
- A thermodynamic derivative means an experiment (1999) (2)
- ENTROPY AND RUST (2010) (2)
- Erratum: “What good is the thermodynamic limit?” [Am. J. Phys. 72 (1), 25–29 (2004)] (2004) (2)
- Erratum: "What good is the thermodynamic limit?" (2004) (2)
- Relativity for the Questioning Mind (2011) (2)
- ¿Find-the-Flaw¿ Problems (2011) (1)
- Remarks on Granville Sewell ’ s treatment of “ Entropy and Evolution ” (2015) (1)
- Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum. (2014) (1)
- Specific heats of model gas molecules: An oral exam teaching strategy (1997) (1)
- Partial Differential Approximants and Applications to Statistical Mechanics. (1984) (1)
- Relativistic dynamics (2019) (0)
- Partial Differential Approximants for Multicritical Singularities: An Overview (1984) (0)
- Erratum for Dan Styer, “Entropy as disorder: History of a misconception,” Phys. Teach. 57, 454–458 (Oct. 2019) (2020) (0)
- Post-Use Review: The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics (2002) (0)
- Statistical Mechanics (2020) (0)
- Statistical Mechanics (2020) (0)
- Spin Half – Software for Simulating Core Quantum Concepts (2008) (0)
- Erratum: “Insight into entropy” [Am. J. Phys. 68, 1090–1096 (2000)] (2022) (0)
- The Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen Paradox (2000) (0)
- The Conundrum of Projections; Repeated Measurements (2000) (0)
- The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics: Putting Weirdness to Work (2000) (0)
- Skeleton Answers for Selected Problems (2000) (0)
- Invitation to Quantum Mechanics (2022) (0)
- Ground state energy of electrons in a static point-ion lattice (1983) (0)
- The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics: Quantum Cryptography (2000) (0)
- The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics: Two-Slit Inventions (2000) (0)
- Erratum: “Entropy and evolution” [Am. J. Phys. 76(11), 1031–1033 (2008)] (2014) (0)
- Classical Magnetic Needles (2000) (0)
- On the separation of identical particles in quantum mechanics (2020) (0)
- The errors of Feynman and Hibbs (2011) (0)
- EQUILIBRIUM VERSUS HOMOGENEITY (2015) (0)
- The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics: Quantum Mechanics of a Bouncing Ball (2000) (0)
- The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics: The Stern–Gerlach Experiment (2000) (0)
- Working with Amplitudes (2000) (0)
- My Favorite Exam Question (2015) (0)
- Variations on a Theme by Einstein (2000) (0)
- Relativity for the Questioning Mind (book review) (2011) (0)
- A Computer Simulation for Quantal Interference (2019) (0)
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