David A. Horner Harold & Eva White Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts
Professor of Chemistry and PhysicsNorth Central College, 30 N. Brainard St., Naperville, IL 60540
Office: 201 Kroehler Science Center
Office phone: (630) 637-5192
FAX: (630) 637-5180
e-mail: dahorner@noctrl.edu
Fall 2008 Office Hours in London, United Kingdom
TBA
Courses
CHM/PHY 340: ThermodynamicsCHM 341: Kinetics, Quantum Theory, and Spectroscopy
PHY 141: Physics IPHY 142: Physics II
PHY 143: Physics III
PHY 244: Physics IV
PHY 245: Physics V: Modern Physics
PHY 450: Advanced Laboratory
SCI 210: Landmark Discoveries in Natural Science
Research
Computational Materials Science
Excel Tutorials & Examples
Graphing with Excel (includes information about trendlines and error bars)
How to do a Linear Regression with Excel (Excel's regression tool gives you the uncertainties on the slope & y-intercept)
Weighted Least Squares example (the proper way to do a linear regression when the uncertainties on the y values are not all the same)
Solver example (Solver is useful for doing nonlinear regressions)
Mathcad Tutorials & Examples
Mathcad is installed on computers in the Science labs, and can be installed on other campus computers from the Start/Network Programs menu.
Mathcad tutorial by S. Young & T. J. Zielinski, revised by D. A. HornerMathcad tutorial 1 by R. D. Poshusta
Mathcad tutorial 2 by R. D. Poshusta
Personal
My Background
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