Dr. Daniel Russell

Daniel A. Russell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Applied Physics
Research Area: Acoustics
Office: 2-325 AB
Phone: (810) 762-9919
Email: drussell@kettering.edu
Personal Web Page

Ph.D. in Acoustics (1995) from the Graduate Program in Acoustics, at The Pennsylvania State University
M.S. in Applied Physics (1991) from Northern Illinois University
B.S. in Physics (1988) from Bradley University
B.Mus. in Piano Performance (1988) from Bradley University

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Teaching Schedule for Fall 2006
Period 1 8:00-9:00	PHYS-114 Newtonian Mechanics	PHYS-114 Newtonian Mechanics	PHYS-114 Newtonian Mechanics	Research in the Acoustics Lab	PHYS-114 Newtonian Mechanics
Period 2 9:05-10:05
Period 3 10:15-11:15	Office Hours	Office Hours	PHYS-225 Electricity & Magnetism Laboratory		Office Hour
Period 4 11:20-12:20	Office Hours	Office Hours	PHYS-225 Electricity & Magnetism Laboratory		Physics Meeting
LUNCH			Faculty Senate
Period 5 1:20-2:20	PHYS-382 Acoustics I Sounds & Sources	PHYS-382 Acoustics I Sounds & Sources	PHYS-382 Acoustics I Sounds & Sources		PHYS-382 Acoustics I Sounds & Sources
Period 6 2:25-3:25	Research in the Acoustics Lab
Period 7 3:35-4:35
Period 8 4:40-5:40

Research Interests:

Acoustics and Vibration of Baseball and Softball Bats
Acoustics of Guitars, Pianos and other Musical Instruments
Animations for Teaching Acoustics
Undergraduate Laboratory Experiments in Acoustics

Academic & Professional Associations:

Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
Society of Physics Students (SPS)
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Recent Publications:

D. A. Russell, "Hoop frequency as a predictor of performance for softball bats," to appear in Engineering of Sport 5 - Proceedings of the ISEA2004 (2004). [author's preprint version (PDF)]
A. M. Nathan, D. A. Russell, and L. V. Smith, "The physics of the trampoline effect in baseball and softball bats," to appear in Engineering of Sport 5 - Proceedings of the ISEA2004 (2004).
D. A. Russell and N.P. Weibull, "Tabletop thermoacoustic refrigerator for demonstrations," Am. J. Phys., 70(12), 1231-1233 (2002). [PDF version of paper from AJP]
D. Russell and W. Haveman, "Acoustic and modal analysis of an African djembe drum," 140th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Newport Beach, CA, December 4-8, 2000, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 108(5) Pt 2., 2591, (2000).
D. A. Russell, "On the sound field radiated by a tuning fork," Am. J. Phys., 68(12), 1139-1145 (2000).[PDF version of paper from AJP]
D. A. Russell, J. P. Titlow, and Y. J. Bemmen, "Acoustic monopoles, dipoles, and quadrupoles: An experiment revisited," Am. J. Phys., 67(8), 660-664 (1999).[PDF version of paper from AJP]
D. A. Russell and T. D. Rossing, "Testing the nonlinearity of piano hammers using shock spectra," Acustica -- Acta Acustica, 84(5), 967-975 (1998).
D. A. Russell and V. W. Sparrow, "Backscattering from a baffled finite plate strip with fuzzy attachments," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 98(3)1527-1533 (1995).
A. D. Pierce, V. W. Sparrow, and D. A. Russell, "Fundamental Structural-Acoustic Idealizations for Structures with Fuzzy Internals," J. Vib. Acoust. 117, 339-348 (1995).