WILLIAM S. PORTER Physics (Retired)

With R. E. Tremblay. "A Medieval Example of Energy Conservation." Physics Teacher
(1994): 476-477.

"The Potential Energy of a Vertical Oscillator." Physics Teacher (1993): 175.

"An Interesting Coherent State of the Rotator." American Journal of Physics 61 (1993):
1050-1051.

"The Range of a Projectile." Physics Teacher (1977): 358.

"Total Reflection in a Moving Medium." American Journal of Physics 40 (1972):
776-777.

"The Oscillator in a Uniform Field." American Journal of Physics 33 (1965): 776-777.

With E. M. Bock. "Faraday Effect in a Plasma." American Journal of Physics 33 (1965):
1070-1073.

"Hydrogen Energy Levels: Perturbation Caused by Proton Structure." Science 143 (1964):
1324-1325.

"Absorptive Effects in Elastic Deuteron Scattering." Progress of Theoretical Physics 27
(1962): 615.

"Constitutions of Uranus and Venus." Astronomical Journal 66 (1961): 243-245.

With B. Roth & J. Johnson. "Theory of Reactions H3(d,n)He4 and He3(d,p)He4."
Physical Review 102 (1958): 1578-1585.

With J. L. Johnson. "A Study of the Reactions: H3(d,n)He4 and He3(d,p)He4." Physical
Review 99 (1955): 630-631.

With A. Buchanan & T. Murphy. Elements of Physics, 1969 (privately published).

Theoretical Physics

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (submitted to Prentice-Hall)

"Squeezed Quantum Mechanical States"

"Energy Bands of a Quantum Rotator in a Potential"

A Study of the Theory of the Reactions: H3(d,n)He4 and He3(d,p)He4

Yale University