Richard D. Piccard

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Adjunct Associate Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy
College of Arts and Sciences

Contact Information

Snail-mail:  Department of Physics and Astronomy
                   132 Clippinger Laboratories
                   Athens, OH 45701-2979

Telephone: (740) 593-1785

Primarily because I work part-time, I am unlikely to be in my office, except during announced drop-in office hours and by appointment.

If you encounter any difficulty following these directions, for example, if you use a wheelchair or crutches and cannot navigate steps or open the fire doors, please do call my office phone, listed above, and I will come out to meet you, or we will agree on a different location.

Enter Clippinger through the main lobby entrance, at the foot of University Terrace hill. If you go straight there are a few steps, but there is a stairs-free ramp off to the right. The power-assisted door opener button is on the card-reader stalk, but on the opposite side from where you are as you finish using the ramp.
Inside the building, bear left and go past the stairs; on the far wall there are windows, through which you can see South Green Drive, and on the far side of it, Ping Center; as you get to the windows, turn left. Go through the metal fire doors, which are often opened into the recesses on the hallway walls. Turn right at the first cross corridor.
Pass the NQPI office on your left and turn into the next hallway on the right, whose door is labelled as providing access to rooms 129-135; that door is usually open.
My office, room 132, is the second room on the right side. I sometimes share that office with one other person; my desk is the one farther from the door.

Biographical Information

Education, Employment, Publications, and Memberships: more than you probably want to know about me.

Physics

As Adjunct Associate Professor, I teach one physics course at a time, some semesters. Information about specific courses, as listed below, is included among my personal pages.

Physics 2001 (last taught Spring semester, 2024)
Physics 2002 (last taught Fall semester, 2023)
Physics 202 (last taught Winter quarter, 2012)
Physics 203 (last taught Fall quarter, 2003)
Physics 251 (last taught Spring quarter, 2007)
Physics 316 "Contemporary Physics for Scientists and Engineers" (not linked because the last time I taught it was Spring quarter, 1992, when the web had just been invented and there were about ten web servers in the whole world, none of them at Ohio University.)
Tier III 415A: Entropy and Human Activity (last taught Winter quarter, 2006)

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Dick Piccard revised this file (https://people.ohio.edu/piccard/) on May 29, 2024.