Faculty
Robert D. Purrington, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor
Email: danny@tulane.edu
Phone: (504) 862-3177
Fax: (504) 862-8702
Other Sites: Personal Website
Department of Physics
5050 Percival Stern Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
Research Interests
Nuclear Physics & History of Physics »
Recent Courses
- ASTR 1000 – Descriptive Astronomy
- ASTR 1100 – Observational Astronomy
- PHYS 3740 – Classical Mechanics
- PHYS 7230/7240 – Electromagnetic Theory I & II
- ASTR 3010 – 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).
School of Science and Engineering, 201 Lindy Boggs Center, New Orleans, LA 70118 504-865-5764 sse@tulane.edu