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Present	Associate Professor, Physics, Cleveland State University
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Physics and Biological and Chemical Physics

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Basics of Sound in Air: Correspondence With Electromagnetic Waves

American Journal of Physics (2021)

Ulrich Zürcher

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Electrostatics at the Molecular Level

European Journal of Physics (2017)

Ulrich Zurcher

In molecular systems, positive and negative charges are separated, making them ideal systems to examine electrostatic interactions. The attractive force ...

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What is the Frequency of an Electron Wave?

European Journal of Physics (2016)

Ulrich Zurcher

Particle-wave duality is a central tenet of quantum physics, and an electron has wave-like properties. Introductory texts discuss the wavelength-momentum ...

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Novel Heart Rate Anaylsis Distinguishes TLE Patients from Patients with ...

Neurology (2014)

Rebecca O. Dwyer, Ulrich Zurcher, Lelia Muhieddiene, Lythe Albakri, et al.

Autonomic cardiac dysfuction is reported in patients with TLE, manifesting as heart rate abnormalities. However, reports measuring HR using frequency-domain ...

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Thermodynamics of Bread Baking: A Two-State Model

American Journal of Physics (2014)

Ulrich Zürcher

Bread baking can be viewed as a complex physico-chemical process. It is governed by transport of heat and is accompanied ...

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Visco-Elastic Properties of Duct Tape

European Journal of Physics (2013)

Ashley Brown and Ulrich Zurcher

A simple experiment for determining the nonlinear stress–strain relation of duct tape is described. After weights are added and subsequently ...

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Geometric Constructions for Image Formation by A Converging Lens

European Journal of Physics (2012)

Ulrich Zürcher

Light rays emerge from an object in all directions. In introductory texts, three 'special' rays are selected to draw the ...

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Stability During Arboreal Locomotion

Theoretical Mechanics (2011)

Andrew R. Lammers and Ulrich Zurcher

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Projectile Motion in the Language of Orbital Motion

European Journal of Physics (2011)

Ulrich Zurcher

We consider the orbit of projectiles launched with arbitrary speeds from the Earth's surface. This is a generalization of Newton's ...

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Radial Motion in A Central Potential for Singular Mass Densities

American Journal of Physics (2011)

Ulrich Zürcher and Miron Kaufman

We study the radial motion of an object in the gravitational field produced by an isotropic mass density that is ...

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Torque Around the Center of Mass: Dynamic Stability During Quadrupedal ...

Zoology (2011)

Andrew R. Lammers and Ulrich Zurcher

When animals travel on tree branches, avoiding falls is of paramount importance. Animals swiftly running on a narrow branch must ...

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Entropy of EKG Time Series Distinguishes Epileptic from Nonepileptic Patients

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (2010)

Rebecca O’Dwyer, Ulrich Zurcher, Brian Vyhnalek, Miron Kaufman, et al.

Introduction: Autonomic cardiac dysfunction has been reported in small studies of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), with a wide ...

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Reliability Difference Between Spectral and Entropic Measures of Erector Spinae ...

Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology (2010)

Paul S. Sung, Ulrich Zurcher and Miron Kaufman

This study investigated back muscle fatigability of the erector spinae (ES) muscles during submaximal contractions with the use of surface ...

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Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics for Living Systems: Brownian Particle Description

Thermodynamics (2010)

Ulrich Zürcher

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Human Food Consumption: a Primer on Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics for College ...

European Journal of Physics (2008)

Ulrich Zurcher

Students often have great difficulties with applications of the energy principle, especially those from biology, although most introductory physics texts ...

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Gender Differences in Spectral and Entropic Measures of Erector Spinae ...

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (2008)

Paul Sung, Ulrich Zurcher and Miron Kaufman

Electromyographic power spectral analysis is a valuable measurement; however, conflicting results have been reported for amplitude and frequency changes during ...

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Entropy of Electromyography Time Series

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (2007)

Miron Kaufman, Ulrich Zurcher and Paul S. Sung

A nonlinear analysis based on Renyi entropy is applied to electromyography (EMG) time series from back muscles. The time dependence ...

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Integration of Laboratories and Computation within the Lecture Physics Courses

AAPT Summer Meeting (2007)

Ulrich Zürcher, Petru S. Fodor, Miron Kaufman, Kiril A. Streletzky, et al.

The interplay between theory and experiments is central to physics. However, theory and experiments are taught separately: the theory is ...

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Particle Sliding on a Rough Incline

European Journal of Physics (2007)

Ulrich Zurcher

We study a particle sliding on a rough inclined plane as an example of a mechanical problem with nonholonomic constraint. ...

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Comparison of Spectral and Entropic Measures for Surface Electromyography Time ...

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (2007)

Paul S. Sung, Ulrich Zurcher and Miron Kaufman

In a previous study, we reported that the mean square displacement calculated from the surface electromyography (sEMG) signal of low ...

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Nonlinear Analysis of Electromiography Time Series as A Diagnostic Tool ...

Medical Science Monitor (2005)

Paul Sung, Ulrich Zurcher and Miron Kaufman

A number of studies have evaluated lumbar spinal muscle fatigue using the electromyography (EMG) signal. However, back muscle fatigue studies ...

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Comment on “Direct Observation of Stretched-Exponential Relaxation in Low-Temperature Lennard-Jones ...

Physical Review Letters (2000)

Ulrich Zürcher and T. Keyes

A Comment on the Letter by Eran Rabani, J. Daniel Gezelter, and D. J. Berne, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3649 ...

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Configurational Entropy and Collective Modes in Normal and Supercooled Liquids

Physical Review E (1999)

Ulrich Zürcher and T. Keyes

Soft vibrational modes have been used to explain anomalous thermal properties of glasses above 1 K. The soft-potential model consists ...

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Comment on A Critique of the Instantaneous Normal Mode (INM ...

The Journal of Chemical Physics (1998)

T. Keyes, Wu Xiong Li and Ulrich Zurcher

A critique of the instantaneous normal mode (INM) theory of diffusion by Gezelter, Rabani, and Berne (GRB) [J. Chem. Phys. ...

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Soft Modes in Glass-Forming Liquids: The Role of Local Stress

ACS Symposium Series (1997)

Ulrich Zürcher and T. Keyes

Liquids and glasses have localized low-frequency vibrational modes associated with disorder. These modes represent relaxational motion in double wells, and ...

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