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

Between the pandemic and the fact that 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 the path through the lobby — which is still being renovated — is obstructed, or you use a wheelchair or crutches and cannot open the fire doors, please do call my office phone, listed above, and I will come out to meet you in the lobby, or we will agree on a different location.

Enter Clippinger through the main entrance, at the foot of University Terrace hill. In the lobby, go to the left. As you approach the windows looking across South Green Drive toward Ping Center, turn left and leave the lobby through the double fire doors. Go down that hall and turn right at the first side hallway, which is before the second set of fire doors.
Pass room 128, and then turn into the first hallway on the right, whose door is not yet labelled as providing access to rooms 129-135 but is usually open.
Room 132 is the second room on the right side. I 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 (being taught Spring semester, 2023)
Physics 2002 (last taught Fall semester, 2022)
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)

Ohio University Front Door College of Arts and Sciences

Dick Piccard revised this file (https://people.ohio.edu/piccard/) on December 28, 2022.