New Practical Physics

Edward M. Purcell

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New Practical Physics

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Aug 1997 English Publisher:American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)Journal:American Journal of Physics, volume 65, pages 693-693 (issn: 0002-9505, eissn: 1943-2909,

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Authors: Edward M. Purcell;

doi: 10.1119/1.18635

New Practical Physics

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In ways no one predicted physics in our time has been astonishingly useful and continually surprising. Has our teaching kept up? Some thoughts about tools and ideas from physics for the college student who wants to be some kind of scientist. [Reprinted from AAPT Pathways (Proceedings of the Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium of the AAPT), edited by Melba Phillips (American Association of Physics Teachers, Stony Brook, New York, 1981)]

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