Publications of William C. Kerr

“Thermodynamic Venn Diagrams: Sorting out Forces, Fluxes, and Legendre Transforms,” W. C. Kerr & J. C. Macosko, Thermodynamics, 79, 950-957 (2011).

“Application of Berry's Phase to the Effective Mass of Bloch Electrons,” M. J. Rave,  Institute of Physics Publishing, 31, 15-21 (2009).

“Phase-Space Dynamics of Semiclassical Spin-½ Bloch Electron,” W. C. Kerr, M. J. Rave, and L. A. Turski, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 94 (12 May 2005).

“Berry’s Phase for an Elecrton in a Period Potential without Inversion Symmetry” M. J. Rave and W. C. Kerr, European Journal of Physics B (to be published in summer of 2005).

“Nucleation Rate of Critical Droplets on an Elastic String in a ?6 Potential” W. C. Kerr and A. J. Graham, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 70, 066103 (2 December 2004).

"Solution of Kramers' Problem for a Moderately to Heavily Damped Elastic String," W. C. Kerr and A. J. Graham, Physical Review E65, 016106-1-016106-4 (2001).

"Generalized Phase Space Version of Langevin Equations and Associated Fokker-Planck Equations," W. C. Kerr and A. J. Graham, The European Physical Journal B, 15: 305-311 (2000).

"Just-In-Time Teaching for Introductory Physics", in Teaching with Technology, edited by D. G. Brown. W. C. Kerr, D. B. Kim-Shapiro, C. W. Yip, and T. Concannon, Anker Publishing Co., Boston, 51-54 (2000).

"Role of Elastic Compatibility in Martensitic Texture Evolution," W. C. Kerr, M. G. Killough, A. Saxena, P. J. Swart, and A. R. Bishop, Phase Transitions, V.69: 247-270 (1999).

"Temperature and Domain Size Dependence of Sickle Cell Hemoglobin Polymer Melting in High Concentration Phosphate Buffer," J. G. Louderback, S.Kh. Aroutiounian, W. C. Kerr, S. K. Ballas, and D. B. Kim-Shapiro, Biophy. Chem. 80: 21-30 (1999).

"Self-Consistent Mean-Field Theory of Asymmetric First-Order Structural Phase Transition," Williams C. Kerr and E. N. Butler, Physical Review B54: 3184-3199 (1 August 1996).