Why Teach Physics? - Based on Discussions At International Conference on Physics in

This volume contains the editors' survey of the proceedings of a Conference on Physics in General Education held in Rio de Janeiro in July, 1963.

About the author

Dr. Sanborn C. Brown was professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former associate dean of its graduate school. Norman Clarke was secretary of the first international conference on physics educaction. Jayme Tiomno was a Brazilian experimental and theoretical physicist with interests in particle physics and general relativity. He was member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and a recipient of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit.

Summary

This volume contains the editors' survey of the proceedings of a Conference on Physics in General Education held in Rio de Janeiro in July, 1963.

Product details

• Authors: Sanborn C. Clarke Brown
• Assisted by: Sanborn C. Brown (Editor), Norman Clarke (Editor), Jayme Tiomno (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.03.2003
• EAN: 9780262523769
• ISBN: 978-0-262-52376-9
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: MIT Press Classics; Why Teach Physics?; The MIT Press; Mit Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works