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Professor of Physics, Department Chair
Breid-McFarland Professor of Science
Science 1030 / Lab 1135
Offc. 641.269.3016 / Lab 269.4338
Grant O. Gale Observatory 641.269.3014
cadmus@grinnell.edu
- Phy-109-01: Physics in the Arts (Fall)
- Phy-116-01: Universe and Its Structure (Fall)
- Phy-337-01: Optics and other Wave Phenomena with Lab (Spring)
- Phy-340-01: Astrophysics (Spring, 1/2 semester course)
- Observational astronomy
- Experimental studies of semiregular variable stars
- Stellar spectroscopy
- Photometry
- "Observation of Possible Mode Switching in Three Semiregular Variable Stars". R.R. Cadmus, Jr., L.A. Willson, C. Sneden, and J.A. Mattei, Astronomical Journal 101, 1043 (1991).
- "Chromospheric Variability of M-Giant Semiregular Variables". J.A. Eaton, H.R. Johnson, and R.R. Cadmus, Jr., Astrophysical Journal 364, 259 (1990).
- "The Observational Determination of the Age of the Universe as a Laboratory Exercise". R.R. Cadmus, Jr., American Journal of Physics 67, 665 (1999).
- Mike Cooper '01, "Development of computer software for the acquisition of astronomical data using GPIB bus instrumentation."
- Steve Hailey-Dunsheath '01, "Development of computer software for the correction of astronomical photometry data for the effects of variable sky brightness."
- B.A. (Physics), 1968, Swarthmore College
- M.S. (Physics), 1970, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
- Ph.D. (Physics), 1977, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
- Postdoc (Nuclear Physics), 1977-78, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
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