Word: 11b
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Original source material will be "used to demonstrate the continuity of historical development even within the great revolutions of scientific thought." Physics 11a and 11b or their equivalent will be prerequisites. A considerable number of students have expressed a wish for a course of this nature, according to Professor Holton...
...physics requirement will pose a few problems for students entering the field next year. If they have taken Physics 11 during their freshman year, or have taken 11a during this spring term and plan to take 11b next fall they can relax as far as the physics requirement is concerned. But students who have not taken any Physics will have to take the now three term Physics 12 to be initiated next fall. Students planning to concentrate in Physical Sciences who have taken Physics 1 during their freshman year will have to take two terms of Physics 12 without...
...only additions to the basic physics offered in 11 will come in 12c. Optics and acoustics will be dealt with much more extensively than they are now in 11b...
...11b will be offered next fall for these taking 11a this spring, but no one will start Physics...
Purcell (11a fall term) is easily accessible, slow, careful and considered one of the best instructors in the department. Wendell H. Furry (11a, spring term) is fair and covers the ground, while Jabez C. Street's (11b) sparse, concise outlines tend to make his lectures not very clear...