Lenore Horner

Associate Professor
Department of Physics

Box 1654
SIUE
Edwardsville, IL 62026

Courses

Research

Other

• Concepts of Physics
• Concepts of Physics Lab
• Music and Acoustics
• College Physics a & b
• College Physics Lab a & b
• University Physics a & b
• University Physics Lab a & b
• UG Quantum Mechanics
• Solid State Physics
• Grad Quantum Mechanics
• Grad Electricity and Magnetism

• 2D electron gases in magnetic fields
• a brief pictoral introduction to the Hall effects
• a brief summary of where our work stands now
• hypergeometric functions
• WiiExperiment - using the Wii remote to teach physics
• acoustics
• percolation and cellular automata
• teaching energy conservation: a very quick primer, a font for typing energy bars, and a quick tutorial on using and installing the font

• Nicholas Hatcher - fractional quantum Hall effect
• William Hall (UALR) REU-FOM/SIUE 2002
• Jerry Morgan - fractional quantum Hall effect
• Danielle Castens - Effects of una corda pedal in a grand piano
• Adam Wuller - fractional quantum Hall effect

• "When Charge Meets Flux: Classical View of a Quantum Paradigm", M L Horner and A.S. Goldhaber, Am. J. Phys. 64 (1996) 1237-1241
• "Aharonov-Bohm Problem for Spin 1", M L Horner and A.S. Goldhaber, Phys. Rev. D 55 (1997) 5951-5956
• "Comparison of Teaching Methods for Energy Conservation", M L Horner, Momo Jeng, Rebecca Lindell, Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings 883 (2006) 161-165
• "Single-particle analogue to the fractional quantum Hall effect", Alfred Scharff Goldhaber and M L Horner, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 14343-14351

• partial instructions for creating a small Beowulf system on old Power Macs
• a movie I made to show the relationship between pressure and displacement nodes for standing sound waves
• more about Physics PLAY
• I've been improving the DarwiinRemote software to be more useful as an accelerometer in the classroom. This is open source OS X software.

• electrostatics
• geometric optics
• interference
• the metric system
• thermodynamics
• waves and oscillations
• induction heating videos