Allan Walstad
Associate Professor of Physics
University
of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Email: awalstad@pitt.edu
OFFICE: Krebs 140A
PHONE: 814-269-2974
Teaching Schedule, Spring 2020:
PHYS 0150 [Physics 1] M W Th F 10 – 10:50 am, 131 Krebs Hall
PHYS 0150 [Physics 1] M W Th F 11 – 11:50 am, 131 Krebs Hall
PHYS 0152 [Physics 2] M W Th F
2 – 2:50 pm, 131 Krebs Hall
Office hours: M WTh F
1 – 2 pm; M & Th 3-4 pm
Research interests: Philosophy
and economics of science; general physics
Papers:
“’Relativistic’ Particle Dynamics
Without Relativity.” American Journal of
Physics 86, 747 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1119/1.5049812
“Further Considerations Regarding the Aharonov-Bohm Effect and the Wavefunction of the Entire System”. Published in the International Journal of Theoretical Physics online Dec. 13, 2016. DOI = 10.1007/s10773-016-3239-9
“Quantum Dynamical Relativity and
the Nature of Minkowski Spacetime” [manuscript posted
at arXiv.org: arXiv:1507.03259].
“On Deriving the Maxwellian Velocity
Distribution.” American Journal of
Physics 81 (7), 555-557 (2013).
Book review: Econophysics:
An Introduction, by Sitabhra Sinha et al. American Journal of Physics 80 (8), 744-745 (2012).
“A Critical Reexamination of the Electrostatic Aharonov-Bohm Effect.”
International Journal of Theoretical Physics 49, 2929-2934 (2010).
Comment on “Econophysics and Economics: Sister
Disciplines?” American Journal of
Physics 78 (4), 325-327 (2010).
Book review: The Infinite Cosmos:
Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology, by Joseph Silk. American
Journal of Physics 75 (1), 95-96
(2007).
Comment on "Is Economics the Next Physical Science?"
by J. Doyne Farmer et. al. Physics Today 59 (6), 10-11 (June 2006).
"The
Longitudinal Momentum of Transverse Traveling Waves on a String," American
Journal of Physics 72 (7), 971-2
(2004).
Essay
Review: Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science, edited by
Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam
Sent. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 7 (3), 71-81 (2004).
"Science
as a Market Process," The Independent Review 7 (1), 5-45 (2002).
"On
Science as a Free Market," Perspectives on Science 9 (3), 324-340 (2001).
Book review: The Truth of Science,
by Roger G. Newton. Physics & Society 28
(2), 16 (Apr. 1999).
Book review: The Economic Laws of
Scientific Research, by Terence Kealey. Physics & Society 26 (4), 13 (Oct. 1997)
“Answer to Question #6. Faraday’s
Law," American Journal of Physics 65,
462-463 (1997)
“Induced Emf”, presented at Western
Pennsylvania Section of AAPT, April 12, 1997
Book review: Prometheus Bound, by
John Ziman. Physics & Society (April 1996)
Book review: Science Funding: Politics
and Porkbarrel, by Joseph P. Martino. Physics &
Society 23, 16-17 (1993)
“A Pedagogical Approach to the
Radiation Fields," American Journal of Physics 59, 941-944 (1991)
“The Hammer Flip," Physics
Teacher 28, 556 (1990)
Book review: The Arms Race and Nuclear
War, by D. P. Barash. Physics and Society 17,
12 (Oct. 1988)
“Managed Versus Unmanaged 7-Year
Electric Growth," Physics and Society 16,
2 (Oct. 1987)
Book review: Seven Ideas that Shook
the Universe, by N. Spielberg and B. D. Anderson. Journal of Geological
Education 35, 168-9 (1987)
“Research in the Colleges” (letter
to the editor), Physics Today, April 1987, p. 112
“Time’s Arrow in an Oscillating
Universe," Foundations of Physics 10,
743 (1980)
“Tachyons in an Expanding
Universe," Foundations of Physics 9,
371 (1979)
“The Equivalence Principle,"
American Journal of Physics 47, 565
(1979)
“Comment on the Center-of-Mass
Offset of the Moon," American Journal of Physics 46, 762 (1978)
Dissertation: “A Local Approach to
Cosmology” (Univ. of Massachusetts, 1975)