Summarizes the undergraduate and graduate physics courses offered in eight medical colleges, involving course structures, admission requirements and research branches. The material is useful to physics teachers, career advisors and students who are interested in the field. (CC)

Describes problems encountered in teaching of heat at secondary level as stemming from the fact that the word heat is used to imply two ideas: energy and interactions. Suggests some necessary measures for a teacher to avoid confusion in heat teaching. (CC)

Discusses the inter-relationships between some important temperature scales such as the Celsius scale, the Kelvin Thermodynamic scale, and the International Practical Temperature Scale (IPTS). Included is a description of the 1968 IPTS with emphasis on innovations introduced in the range below 273.15 k. (CC)

Describes the balanced curriculum proposed by the Schools Council, activities taken by the Committee of Independent Learning in Science, and suggestions for material development made in an A-level physics workshop. Indicates that the general rather than specific objectives should be stressed to broaden the scope of physics teaching. (CC)

Discusses experience of teaching optical experiments with emphasis upon the student's design and construction of refracting and reflecting telescopes. Concludes that the student's interest and acquired knowledge are greatly enhanced through the use of realistic experiments. (CC)

Presents theoretical fundamentals of sideways forces exerted on a cricket ball, an aerofoil, and a yacht, involving the properties of boundary layers and a description of velocity and circulation. (CC)

Presents data on aircraft take off and landing, including measurements of turning speeds, triangle of velocities method, fuel consumption, air pressure differences, air turbulence, maintenance inspection, and airborne radar. Indicates the materials can serve as relevant physics examples in teaching sixth and seventh form pupils. (CC)

Discusses some aspects in X-ray topography, including formation of dislocations, characteristics of stacking faults, x-ray contrast in defect inspection, Berg-Barrett technique, and Lang traversing crystal and Borrmann's methods. (CC)

Discusses the use of a modified electron spin resonance apparatus to demonstrate some features of the expression for the transition probability per second between two energy levels. Applications to the third year laboratory program are suggested. (CC)

Discusses problems encountered in explaining shear stress of a solid in terms of forces on a "pack of cards". Suggest the use of "pure" shear stress rather than "simple" shear stress in presentation to secure a better understanding. Included is an example illustration E occurrence of pure stress. (CC)

Describes the way in which quantum ideas are incorporated into the Nuffield advanced physics course. Quantum theory is presented as an enormous intellectual leap to be excited by, puzzled over and thought about, not as a set of results and equations to be packed away in the mind. (Author/MLH)

Discusses the importance and difficulties of teaching basic quantum theory. Presents a discussion of wave-particle duality, indeterminacy, the nature of a quantized state of a system, and the exclusion principle. (MLH)

States that the major problem in learning quantum mechanics is often the student's ignorance of classical mechanics and that one conceptual hurdle in quantum mechanics is its statistical nature, in contrast to the determinism of classical mechanics. (MLH)

Describes the procedure, equipment, results, and weaknesses of an experiment conducted by Nevil Maskelyne at Schehallien peak in Scotland; the purpose of the experiment was to collect data for the calculation of the mean density of the earth and to measure the universal gravitational constant. (MLH)