Jeffrey Olafsen
Associate Professor
BSB E315, (254) 710 - 2280
Jeffrey_Olafsen@baylor.edu
Jeffrey Olafsen's Webpage
Education
| Ph.D. | Physics | Duke University | 1994 |
| M.S. | Physics | Duke University | 1991 |
| B.S. | Physics | University of Southern Mississippi | 1989 |
| B.S. | Mathematics | University of Southern Mississippi | 1989 |
Research Interests
Experimental Nonequilibrium and Nonlinear Dynamics
 • Granular Systems
• Biophysics
• Imaging Algorithms
Courses Taught
PHY 2435 - General Physics II
PHY 1430 - General Physics II
PHY 1430 Honors - General Physics II Honors
PHY 4195 - Senior Physics Research I
PHY 4196 - Senior Physics Research II
Recent Publications
Two-dimensional Melting Far from Equilibrium in a Granular Monolayer,
with J.S. Urbach. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098002 (2005)
Velocity Distributions of Granular Gases with Drag and with Long-Range Interactions,
with K. Kohlstedt, A. Snezhko, M.V. Sapoznikov, I.S. Aranson, and E. Ben-Naim, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 068001 (2005)
A Solutions Manual for Statistical and Thermal Physics: Fundamentals and Applications by M.D. Sturge,
with M.D. Sturge (deceased), published by A.K. Peters, Ltd. (2005)
Inelastic Gravitational Billiards,
with S. Feldt, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 224102 (2005)
Anisotropic Dynamics in a Shaken Granular Dimer Gas Experiment,
with J. Atwell, Phys. Rev. E71, 062301 (2005)
Polymer-like Folding of a Two-Dimensional Granular Chain in Water,
with B. Bammes, Chaos 14, S9 (2004)
Crystallization in a 2D Granular Fluid,
with J.S. Urbach, included in A Gallery of Fluid Motion, ed. M. Samimy et al., Cambridge Univ. Press (2004)
Kinetics: Gaussian Statistics in Granular Gases,
with G.W. Baxter, Nature 425, 680 (2003)
Coarsening of Granular Clusters: Two Types of Scaling Behaviors,
with M.V. Sapozhinkov and I.S. Aranson, Phys. Rev. E67, 010302(R) (2003)
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