University of Washington                        Department of Physics
Matt DePies
Offices: Physics/Astronomy Building, B025
             UW Bothell,   UW1-151
Email:  depies@phys.washington.edu

Autmun 2009
BCUSP 145  Waves, Optics, and Modern Physics
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Summer 2009
Physics 116  Waves, Oprtics, and Modern Physics
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Spring 2009
UWB: B CUSP 144 General Physics
Cascadia:  Astr 115 Cosmology

Winter 2009
  B CUSP 143 General Physics Winter 09

Summer 2008
Physics 122 Summer 08
Tycho Physics 122 Summer 08
Click on links below to access class web pages or Tycho.
Spring 2008
Physics 122 Spring 08
Tycho Phys 122 Spr 08



Links:
NASA picture of the day

Graphing Calculator Help Site

Papers:
M. DePies, "Gravitational Waves and Light Cosmic Strings", Dissertation.

M. DePies and Craig J. Hogan, "Harmonic Gravitational Wave Spectra of Cosmic String Loops in the Galaxy ," arXiv:0904.1052v1 .[astro-ph.CO]

 M. DePies and Craig Hogan, "Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Light Cosmic Strings,"   Phys. Rev. D 75, 125006 (2007) arXiv: astro-ph/0702335

Overview of Dark Energy

M. Bienfait, P. Zeppenfeld, N. Dupont-Pavlovsky, M. Muris, M. R. Johnson, T. Wilson, M. DePies, and O. E. Vilches,  "Thermodynamics and structure of hydrogen, methane, argon, oxygen, and carbon dioxide adsorbed on single-wall carbon nanotube bundles,"  Physical Review B, 70, 035410 (2004)

M. Bienfait, P. Zeppenfeld, N. Dupont-Pavlovsky, J.-P. Palmari, M. R. Johnson, T. Wilson, M. DePies, and O. E. Vilches,  "Adsorption of Argon on Carbon Nanotube Bundles and its Influence on the Bundle Lattice Parameter,"  Physical Review Letters, 91, 035503 (2003)

T. Wilson, A. Tyburski , M. R. DePies, O. E. Vilches, D. Becquet and M. Bienfait,  "Adsorption of H2 and D2 on Carbon Nanotube Bundles,"  Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 126, 403 (2002)





Background:  Abell Cluster of Galaxies,  HST  (Courtesey NASA)