College Physics Enhanced

Summary: Chris Vuille is an associate professor of physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, the world's premier institution for aviation higher education. He received his Doctorate in physics at the University of Florida in 1989. While he has taught courses at all levels, including post-graduate, his primary interest and responsibility has been the delivery of introductory physics. He has recei...ved a number of awards for teaching excellence, including the Senior Class Appreciation Award (three times), which is conferred by the class of graduating seniors. He conducts research in general relativity, astrophysics, cosmology, and quantum theory, and was a participant in the JOVE program, a special three-year NASA grant program during which he studied properties of neutron stars. His work has appeared in a number of scientific journals, and in addition in ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION/SCIENCE FACT magazine, where he has been a featured science writer. He created and produced, with the support of ERAU and the College of Arts and Sciences, the Elston Memorial Lecture on Gravitation, an annual event featuring public lectures by world-class scientists such as Kip Thorne of Cal Tech. Dr. Vuille enjoys tennis, lap swimming, yoga and karate, plays guitar and classical piano, and is a former chess champion of St. Petersburg (his home town) and Atlanta. [read more]