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B Cameron Reed, Ph.D.

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Selected Articles

  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Review: Introduction to Modern Climate Change."  Physics and Society.  2013. 42. 2. 18-20  April 1, 2013.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "A Brief Guide to Manhattan Project Literature."  History of Physics Newsletter.  2013. XII. 1. 3-4  March 15, 2013.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Manhattan Project Mystery."  History of Physics Newsletter.  2012. XI. 6. 4-5  November 8, 2012.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "The Context of Nuclear Inoculation."  Federation of American Scientists Perspectives.  http://www.fas.org/policy/hiroshima.html  August 6, 2012.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Neutrons as Party Animals: An Analogy for Understanding Heavy-Element Fissility."  The Physics Teacher.  2012. 50. 9. 544-545.
  • B Cameron Reed (with T. Burr & S. Croft).  "Least-Squares Fitting with Errors in the Response and Predictor."  International Journal of Metrology and Quality Engineering.  2012
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Reflections on Teaching the Manhattan Project."  Federation of American Scientists Public Interest Report.  2011. 64. 3. 45-48  December 20, 2011.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "A desktop computer simulation for exploring the fission barrier."  Natural Science.  2011.3.4.323-327
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Fission fizzles: Estimating the yield of a predetonated nuclear weapon."  American Journal of Physics.  2011.79.7.769-773  July 1, 2011.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "From Treasury Vault to the Manhattan Project."  American Scientist.  2011.99.1.40-47  January 1, 2011.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Resource Letter MP-2: The Manhattan Project and Early Nuclear Research."  American Journal of Physics.  2011. 79. 2. 151-163  February 1, 2011.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "A Thorium Future?."  American Scientist.  2010. 98. 5. 364.  September 1, 2010.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Liquid Thermal Diffusion During the Manhattan Project."  Physics in Perspective.  2011.13.2.161-188  June 1, 2011.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Teaching the History of the Manhattan Project."  History of Physics Newsletter.  2010. 11. 2. 1,3,12  June 1, 2010.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Predetonation probability of a fission-bomb core."  American Journal of Physics.  2010. 78. 8. 804-808  August 1, 2010.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Student-Level Numerical Simulation of Conditions Inside an Exploding Fission-Bomb Core."  Natural Science.  2010. 2. 3. 139-144  March 1, 2010.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Spreadsheet for Linear Least-Squares fits With Errors in Both Coordinates."  Physics Education.  2010. 45. 1. 93-96
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Bullion to B-Fields: The Silver Program of the Manhattan Project."  Michigan Academician.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "The Bohr-Wheeler spontaneous fission limit: an undergraduate-level derivation."  European Journal of Physics.  2009. 30. 763-770  2009.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "A brief primer on tamped fission-bomb cores."  American Journal of Physics.  (2009) 77(8), 730-733  2009.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Centrifuges and the Manhattan Project."  Physics in Perspective.  2009. 11. 426-441
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Rudolf Peierls’ 1939 Analysis of Critical Conditions in Neutron Multiplication."  Physics & Society.  2008. 36. 4
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "A graphical look at uranium and plutonium fissility.."  Journal of Chemical Education.  2008. 45. 3. 446-450
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Arthur Compton's 1941 Report on Explosive Fission of U-235: A look at the physics."  American Journal of Physics.  2007. 75. 12. 1065-1072.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Chadwick and the Discovery of the Neutron.."  The SPS Observer.  2007. 39. 1. 1-7
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "A Simple Model for Determining the Critical Mass of a Fissile Nuclide."  SPS Observer.  2006, XXXVIII, (Issue 4), 10-14  December 1, 2006.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "The Sun's Displacement from the Galactic Plane from Spectroscopic Parallaxes of 2500 OB Stars."  Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.  2006, 100, 146-148  August 1, 2006.
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Seeing the Light: Visibility of the 1945 Trinity atomic-bomb test from the inner solar system."  The Physics Teacher.  44, 604-606
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "New Estimates of the Solar-Neighborhood Massive Star Birthrate and the Galactic Supernova Rate."  The Astronomical Journal.  2005. 130, 1652-1657
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Archimedes' law sets a good energy minimization example."  Physics Education.  2004. 39. 322-323
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Comment on ‘Court Rules Against 10,000-Year Radiation Safety Standard at Yucca Mountain.."  Physics Today.  2004. 57(12). 13-14
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Improved (1s)^2 variational model for helium.."  Central European Journal of Physics.  2005. 3. 1-7
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Bohr’s model predicts ionization potential of two-electron atoms.."  Physics Education.  2005. 40. 117-118
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Understanding Plutonium Production in Nuclear Reactors.."  The Physics Teacher.  2005. 43. 222-224
  • B Cameron Reed, Ph.D..  "Resource Letter MP-1: The Manhattan Project and related nuclear research."  American Journal of Physics.  2005. 73, 805-811

 

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Ben Shaw

Ben Shaw
Graduation: 2014
Major: History

Riverdale junior Ben Shaw grew up involved in his home church, so stepping into leadership roles within the Alma College Chapel was a natural fit. In addition to being a Student Ministry Coordinator, he helps lead worship and a Bible study team.

“I really enjoy Chapel, and I believe that God uses me here,” he says. “I’m in charge of planning the weekly games at my Bible study. I also sit on the planning board to help finalize decisions and step into any role if another leader is unable to make it. I really like working with people.”

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