Bill Melton Associate Professor Office: Burson 145 Phone: (704) 687-4517 bfmelton@email.uncc.edu

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in the earth's magnetic field

Research Laboratory NMR Laboratory,Burson, Room 172

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Physics Dept, UNC Charlotte (1977-present)
  
• Assistant Professor, Physics Dept, UNC Charlotte (1971 -1977)
  
• American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Charlotte (1971-1972)
  
• Captain, 12th Signal Group, U. S. Army Strategic Communications Command (1970-71)
  
• 1st Lieutenant, U. S. Army Research and Development Coordinator, U. S. Army Materiel Command (1969-70)
  

Selected Publications & Presentations

B. F. Melton and V. L. Pollak, "Optimizing Sudden Passage in the Earth's-Field NMR Technique," Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Series A 122,42-49 (1996).

B. F. Melton, V. L. Pollak, T. W. Mayes, and Barton L. Willis, "Condition for Sudden Passage in the Earth's-Field NMR Technique," Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Series A 117, 164-170 (1995).

T. W. Mayes and B. F. Melton, "Fraunhofer Diffraction of Visible Light by a Narrow Slit, " American Journal of Physics 62, 397-403 (1994).

B. F. Melton, "A Surprising Demonstration of Total Internal Reflection," The Physics Teacher 29, 539-540 (1991)

Education

Ph. D., Physics, Oklahoma State University (1970)
B. S., Physics, Oklahoma State University (1964)
Last update January 15, 2002

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