Cardwell Hall is a building on the northwest part of the campus of Kansas State University

Kansas State University

Kansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...

. It was constructed in 1963. It is currently the home of the Department of Mathematics and Department of Physics.

The Department of Physics has major research programs in high energy, condensed matter, atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics, and in physics education. The AMO group operates the James R. Macdonald Laboratory, which contains a Tandem van de Graaff accelerator, EBIS and ECR ion sources, and most recently, the Kansas Light Source, an ultrafast laser facility. The lab and its equipment, located in the sub-basement of the building, is used for studying atomic, molecular and photonic collisions. The building is named in honor of Dr. A. B. Cardwell who became head of the Department of Physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

in 1936.

External links

• http://www.math.ksu.edu
• http://www.phys.ksu.edu
• http://jrm.phys.ksu.edu