| 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 |
| Abstract: | 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: | *Supported by NSF grant #CETP 98-76676 and #DUE-9652888. 1. Additional information is available at www.phys.ksu.edu/perg/. |