Anthropology - Butler University

The purpose of this paper is to bring to light the radical philosophical nature of the Industrial
Workers of the World during the early part of the 20 th century. The material for this project is
gathered from a recent acquisition of I.W.W. publications and ephemera by the Newberry
Library in Chicago. Through a careful analysis of original prints and pamphlets published
between 1905 and 1930, I outline the I.W.W.'s unique theory of ideology, and how it contributed
to their critique of capitalist forms of production. These pamphlets and prints aided the I.W.W. in
educating workers in Marxism, Socialism, and Industrial Unionism, in order to further their goal
of overthrowing capitalism. Although the I.W.W. educated workers in leftist philosophy, it was
always done within the context of the workplace. Only in daily production and class struggle did
philosophy matter to the I.W.W. By reinterpreting Marxism, and Socialism, through the concept
of the Industrial Union, the I.W.W. envisioned a future society organized around the shared
experience of production. The I.W.W.'s emphasis on worker solidarity, philosophy of the
workplace, and their commitment to worker education, leads me to claim that the I.W.W.
proposed a radical form of embodied ideology.
PHYSICS
Thermal Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
Jeremy Christman & Andy Moore, Faculty Sponsor: Mahfuza Khatun, Ball State University
Recent advances in nanostructure technology have made it possible to create small devices at the
nanoscale. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are among the most exciting building blocks of
nanotechnology. Their versatility and extremely desirable properties for electronic and heat
transport have driven intense research and development efforts in recent years. Our research has
focused on measuring the thermal properties of various CNT structures using molecular
dynamics with the simulation software called LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular
Massively Parallel Simulator) on the Beowulf cluster at Ball State University. Using the Green
Kubo formulation thermal conductivity is calculated of various CNTs. We will show the theory
behind this calculation, our results for thermal properties of various tubes, along with the basic
simulation procedure we have been using for finding these properties.
Ambient Temperature P-V Equation of State for Garnet Sand of Pfeiffer Beach
Erica Cotter, Faculty Sponsor: Henry Scott, Indiana University-South Bend
Synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction analysis was performed on a natural beach-sand
almandine, (Fe 0.68 Mg 0.25 )3Al 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 , from Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, California. The ambientpressure
lattice parameter, a, was found to be 11.529 Å. The lattice parameter and, accordingly,
unit-cell volume were determined through isothermal compression to 19 GPa in a symmetric
diamond anvil cell, in which helium served as a nearly-hydrostatic pressure-transmitting
medium. The isothermal bulk modulus, K 0T , was determined to be 168.8 ± 1.8 GPa using a
second-order (i.e. dK/dP fixed at 4) Birch–Murnaghan equation of state. We compare these
findings with previous elasticity measurements of garnets along the pyrope-almandine join, and