Charlie Freeman

Distinguished Teaching Professor
ISC 228C
585-245-5286
freeman@geneseo.edu

Charlie Freeman has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 1997.

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. & M.S., Nuclear Physics, University of Rochester

  • S.B., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests

  • Director of SUNY Geneseo 1.7 MV Pelletron accelerator lab with research interests in Inertial Confinement Fusion, plasma diagnostics, and ion beam analytical techniques including Proton Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE), Rutherford Backscattering Analysis (RBS), and Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA). Also interested in studying the physics of baseball.

Classes

  • PHYS 116: Physics II Lab

    A lab course to complement General Physics II and Analytical Physics II lectures. Experiments in waves, electricity and magnetism, circuits, and optics will be performed.

  • PHYS 125: Analytical Physics II

    An analytical, calculus-based treatment of charge, electrostatic and magnetostatic fields, simple applications of Maxwell's equations, Lenz's law, basic electrical circuits, mechanical and electromagnetic waves, and geometric optics.

  • PHYS 224: Analytical Physics IV

    This course will include elementary quantum theory, Schrodinger's equation, wave properties of matter, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, atomic structure and the Bohr atom. Special topics may include a survey of material from different subfields of physics such as cosmology, solid state physics, nuclear physics, etc.