Dr. Terry Goforth

EDUCATION

• Solar Eclipse Research:
  • Safe viewing practices, activities for school children, and advice for teachers.
    Details for expert observation using telescopes and sensors.
  • Reading on skeptical inquiry of pseudo-scientific claims, educational approaches to enhance critical and scientific thinking and scientific literacy.
  • Reading on natural causes for climate change and the possible impact of human activity.
  • Reading on and evaluation of alternative fuel sources.
  • Full multichannel investigation of small atoms using Schwinger Variational Principle and Quantum Defect Theory to calculate quantum defects and related properties.
    
• Solar Eclipse Research Activity:
  • Assisted Dr. Trail and students to prepare observational experiments for the 2017 total solar eclipse.
  • Traveled with Dr. Trail and six physics students to Glendo, WY, to observe totality on August 21, 2017. (Trip dates August 19-22, 2017)
  • Assisted in the review of the data (from sensors and photographs) and preparation for presentation
    
• Conferences & Seminars:
  • APS/SPS/AAPT Regional Meeting (Accompanied Physics Students presenting posters), Stephen F Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, March 7-9, 2017
  • APS/SPS/AAPT Regional Meeting (Accompanied Physics Students presenting posters), Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX, March 22-24, 2018
  • Oklahoma Women in Higher Education (Sponsored by RUSO), UCO, November 18, 2011
  • Oklahoma Women in Higher Education (Sponsored by RUSO), UCO, November 19, 2010
  • Oklahoma Women in Higher Education (Sponsored by RUSO), UCO, November 20, 2009
  • Oklahoma Women in Higher Education (Sponsored by RUSO), UCO, November 21, 2008
  • AAPT/APS Physics Department Chairs Conference, (Sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Physical Society), American Center for Physics, College Park, MD, June 6-8, 2008
  • Oklahoma Women in Higher Education (Sponsored by BOROC), UCO, November 9, 2007
  • Oklahoma Women in Higher Education (Sponsored by BOROC), UCO, November 3, 2006
  • Activity-Based Physics Faculty Institute (Sponsored by the National Science Foundation), Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, June 18-23, 2006
  • Oklahoma Women in Higher Education (Sponsored by BOROC), OKC Marriott, October 14, 2005
  • Designing Learning Spaces Workshop (Sponsored by BOROC), University of Central Oklahoma, July 8, 2005.
  • Character First Leadership Workshop, SWOSU, April 23, 2005
    Project Lead the Way Counselor’s Workshop, OKC Marriott, October 26, 2004.
  • Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center Science and Engineering Professors’ Tour, Tinker Air Force Base, September 17-18, 2003.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: terry.goforth@swosu.edu Office Number: CPP 102-C
Phone Number: 580-774-3109

TEACHING: BASIC COURSES

ASTRO 1904 Astronomy
PHY 1063 Basic Physics
PHY 1044/L Basic Physics I/Lab
PHY 1054/L Basic Physics II/Lab
SCI 1503 Concepts of Physical Science
SCI 1501 Concepts of Physical Science Lab

TEACHING: PHYSICS

PHY 2021 Intro to Engineering Physics
PHY 2145/L General Physics I/Lab
PHY 2155/L General Physics II/Lab

OTHER ACTIVITIES

2021-PRESENT
Faculty Sponsor for SWOSU Physics Club

2001-PRESENT
Physics Program Coordinator, SWOSU

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

W. K. Trail and T. L. Goforth, “NISTAR Science Processing: Stable Suspension Summary,” report to Dr. Steven Lorentz, NIST, on the software package to support the Scripps/NISTAR science package, January 15, 2002.

W. K. Trail and T. L. Goforth, “NISTAR Science Processing,” report to Dr. Steven Lorentz, NIST, on the software package to support the Scripps/NISTAR science package, September 30, 2001.

W. K. Trail, M. A. Morrison, H. L. Zhou, B. L. Whitten, K. Bartschat, K. B. MacAdam, T. L. Goforth, and D. W. Norcross, Phys. Rev. A 49, 3620 (1994).

T. L. Goforth and D. K. Watson, Phys. Rev. A 46, 1006 (1992).

T. L. Goforth, G. L. Snitchler, and D. K. Watson, Phys. Rev. A 35, 904 (1987).