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Honorary Associate Professor Gary Bold
Honorary Associate Professor in Physics
PhD (Auckland), MASA, LMIEEE, MNZIP
Contact details
Email: g.bold@auckland.ac.nz
Research areas
- Environmental underwater acoustics: Collaborator in the global ATOC project.
- Signal processing: Application of m sequence modulation, stepped chirps, adaptive filters, to oceanic acoustic transfer function determination.
- Electronics: The use of PIC and other microprocessors for data recording and experiment control.
- Optical environmental sensing: Development of a differential telephotometer for investigating atmospheric pollution.
- Biophysics: Design and construction of multi-channel DC coupled EEG scalp recording system.
Selected publications
- "ATOC and other acoustic thermometry observations in New Zealand", C.T. Tindle and G.E.J. Bold, MTS Journal, 33(1), 1999, pp 55 - 60.
- "Signals for optimum bandlimited system interrogation with application to Underwater acoustics". Gary E.J. Bold, and Murray D. Johns, Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, 81(4), April 1987, pp 991 - 999.
- "A top-down philosophy for accurate numerical ray tracing", G.E.J. Bold and T.G. Birdsall,Journal of the acoustical Society of America, 80(2), August 1986, pp 656 - 660.
- "Simulation of nonlinear acoustic systems using bilinear transform and higher-order simulators". Gary E.J. Bold, Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, 78(5), November 1985, pp 1902 - 1904.
- "Improved ray calculations in shallow water", C.T. Tindle and G.E.J. Bold, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 70, 1982, pp 813 - 819.
- "Measurements of the frequency dependence of normal modes", C.T. Tindle, M.K. Guthrie, G.E.J. Bold, T.G. Birdsall et al. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 64, number 4, 1978, pp 1178 - 1185.
- "Power distribution near the antipode of a short-wave transmitter". G.E.J. Bold, Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, 31, 1969, pp 1391 - 1411.
Teaching
- "Top-down teaching in noncalculus-based introductory Physics classes'' J.M. Dudley and G.E.J. Bold, American Journal of Physics, 64(4), April 1996.
- "Simple computer network analysis", Gary E.J. Bold, IEEE Transactions on Education, E-30(2), May 1987, pp 99 - 102. Summary (pdf)
- "Simulation of nonlinear acoustic systems using bilinear transform and higher-order simulators, G.E.J. Bold, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 78(5), November 1985, pp 1902 - 1904.
- "Teaching simulation with a 'digital' analog computer ". Gary E.J. Bold, and Sze M. Tan,American Journal of Physics, 53(4), 1985, pp 437 – 442.
Class texts
- "Transistor Electronics, " Gary E.J. Bold, 8th edition, 2004, Obtainable from Department of Physics, $15. Text for courses 326.
- "Electromagnetism, " Gary E.J. Bold, 5th edition, 2004, Obtainable from Department of Physics, $15. Text for course 220.
- "Theoretical and computer analysis of systems and networks, " Gary E.J. Bold, and Sze M. Tan, 6th edition, 1997, Obtainable from Department of Physics, $20. Text for course 340.
- "Linear steady-state network theory" Gary E.J. Bold, and J. Brian Earnshaw, 6th edition, 1997, Obtainable from Department of Physics, $20. Text for course 240.
- "Digital Signal Processing" Gary E.J. Bold, Sunset edition 2004, obtainable from Department of Physics, $15. Text for course 340.
- "An introduction to PSPICE, PPRE and PROBE" Gary E.J. Bold, and Sze M. Tan, 2nd edition, 1996, Obtainable from Department of Physics, $10. Supplementary Text for courses 340, 326. Now obsolete, out of print. Will be replaced by a new text using WinSpice late 2002.
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