Session: |
A Course in Modern Physics for Nonscience Majors and Future Science
Teachers* |
Meeting: |
121st AAPT National Meeting:
Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
Location: |
MacNaughton, Room 105 |
Date: |
7/31/00 |
Time: |
3:15 p.m. |
Author: |
Dean A. Zollman, Kansas
State Univ.
785-532-1619,
dzollman@phys.ksu.edu |
Co-Author(s): |
Kirsten Hogg, Lei Bao
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Abstract:
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For the past 15 years Kansas
State University has offered a course in modern physics for students who
are not majoring in physics. This course carries a prerequisite of one
physics course so that the students have a basic introduction to
classical topics. Thus, it is an advanced course with a minimum of
prerequisites. The majors of students range from liberal arts to
engineering. With an optional laboratory, future secondary science
teachers whose first area of teaching is not physics can use the course
as part of their study of science. The course has evolved from a lecture
course to one that is highly interactive and uses a combination of
hands-on activities, tutorials, and visualizations, particularly the
Visual Quantum Mechanics materials.1 |
Footnotes:
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*Supported by NSF grant #CETP
98-76676 and #DUE-9652888. 1. Additional information is available at
www.phys.ksu.edu/perg/. |
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