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)