ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1970722

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1964

数据来源: AIP

摘要:

This report reviews the progress of the last two years in various aspects of undergraduate physics instruction. The nature and influence of new introductory courses for science majors and engineers, and for nonscience majors, are examined and discussed, as are other new developments in physics major curricula. A considerable expansion in new teaching materials has occurred, including those which are primarily verbal and symbolic, as well as those for laboratory and demonstration use and for creating the necessary bridges between observation and abstraction. These materials are described and the need for the creation of additional teaching aids is assessed. Evaluation of the new curricula, courses, and teaching materials, while difficult, is a matter of continuing effort. Communication of the new developments within the profession has been encouraged and facilitated by regional or national conferences. The review covers the work of individuals, groups, and professional organizations as well as that of the CCP.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1970724

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1964

数据来源: AIP

摘要:

A Conference on Physical Science Courses, sponsored jointly by the Advisory Council for College Chemistry and the Commission on College Physics, was held in Chicago on 5–7 September 1963. Background information and statistics are presented which support claims that there is a great need for the colleges to train more elementary school teachers and to include more and better physical science courses in that training. A portion of the call to the conference is included which summarizes the need and suggests action to meet it. The main body of the report presents the conclusions of the conference which include the recommendation that several separate efforts be made by groups of scientists to produce new materials suitable for a one-year college course combining chemistry and physics. Some important general features desirable for such a course are outlined. A list of characteristics one might expect the students to develop as they study the course is presented. The Appendix lists the conferees and their institutional affiliations.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1970725

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1964

数据来源: AIP

摘要:

The influence of the rapid increase in scientific knowledge and the changing patterns of science education on college physics teaching is discussed. Training criteria for college physics teachers are suggested, and statistics are quoted on the number of teachers who presently fail to meet the criteria. A survey is presented of the study opportunities available for college physics teachers. It is recommended that more summer study opportunities be provided; some problems involved in implementation are outlined. An analysis is made of the present demand for summer institute programs; suggestions are offered on how to stimulate more participation in study programs among college teachers without advanced degrees. The contributions of the Commission on College Physics in providing summer study opportunities are mentioned, and the role of the physics community in coordinating the entire effort is assessed.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1970727

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1964

数据来源: AIP

摘要:

Physics, like all of science, is not merely analytic. Its power of analysis is best demonstrated in its synthetic successes, the design of new questions, new experiments, even new devices. For the students whom we do not now really reach, including a large fraction of all elementary teachers, a very large proportion of women, indeed, the bulk of the college population, we need a new emphasis. It is valuable to vary the style and mood, to break with the Euclidean model at least sometimes, to employ humor, playfulness, invention; above all, to go beyond mere verbal and formula-learning. It is to be expected that the visual and graphic arts, broadly viewed, might make a merger with laboratory science at an introductory level which would genuinely change the audience we can hope to involve. The free use of simple construction materials, accompanied by some analysis of a mechanical and geometrical kind, might begin a course of rich variety which would present circuits and probability, group theory and astronomy, optics, mechanics, radioactivity, even biochemistry, as lab experience and initial analysis. Aesthetic participation and wide context appear more valuable than the necessarily didactic route to the full modern world view of the physicist. Less may be more. Some topics are more fully sketched.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1970729

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1964

数据来源: AIP

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1970731

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1964

数据来源: AIP

摘要:

A brief description of the development and present state of the Berkeley Physics Laboratory is given. Thirty-six experiments in all are planned. Twenty-eight of these experiments have been used with student groups ranging in size from forty to six-hundred and fifty. The first twenty-eight experiments are described with particular emphasis on the electron deflection and microwave experiments, which are innovations of this laboratory.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1970733

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1964

数据来源: AIP

摘要:

Students in introductory physics courses often have easily diagnosed weaknesses in their ability to use basic mathematical tools. Experience with remedial material in the form of linearly programed reviews has shown it to be valuable, both on an individual and a mass basis, in alleviating these weaknesses. The philosophy of construction and use of such materials is discussed, and a sample program presented. Four remedial programs—in geometry, trigonometry, vector addition, and exponents—have been prepared and are available for trial use in limited quantities. Suggestions for additional topics are both made and solicited.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1970735

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1964

数据来源: AIP

摘要:

Over the past few years experience has accumulated with student use of solder-glass techniques for the construction of simple vacuum tubes for doing experiments with electrons, ions, and atoms. The details of a freshman seminar are discussed, and examples of the work of the students, including sample laboratory reports and data are given. The success of the seminar indicates that the technique can be extended to handle large groups of students.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1970737

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1964

数据来源: AIP

摘要:

A discussion is given of the advantages and limitations of the techniques of sealing with solder glasses, of the characteristics which a glass must possess to be suitable for solder sealing, and of the properties of some of the available solder glasses.

ISSN:0002-9505    

DOI:10.1119/1.1970739

出版商:American Association of Physics Teachers    

年代:1964

数据来源: AIP