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* [[Francis Lee Friedman|Professor Francis L. Friedman]]<ref>{{cite web|author=MIT Museum |url=http://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?t=people&type=browse&f=date1&s=1949&record=28 |title=MIT Museum Collections - People |publisher=Webmuseum.mit.edu |date= |accessdate=2014-04-06}}</ref> |
* [[Francis Lee Friedman|Professor Francis L. Friedman]]<ref>{{cite web|author=MIT Museum |url=http://webmuseum.mit.edu/detail.php?t=people&type=browse&f=date1&s=1949&record=28 |title=MIT Museum Collections - People |publisher=Webmuseum.mit.edu |date= |accessdate=2014-04-06}}</ref> |
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* [[George Gamow|Professor George Gamow]] |
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* Professor Sanford C. Brown<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_082/TECH_V082_S0503_P001.pdf|title=TECH_V082_S0503_P001.pdf|publisher= Tech.mit.edu|accessdate= 2014-04-06}}</ref> |
* [[Professor Sanford C. Brown]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tech.mit.edu/archives/VOL_082/TECH_V082_S0503_P001.pdf|title=TECH_V082_S0503_P001.pdf|publisher= Tech.mit.edu|accessdate= 2014-04-06}}</ref> |
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* [[Victor Frederick Weisskopf|Professor Victor Weisskopf]] |
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Revision as of 15:03, 18 October 2015
The Physical Science Study Committee was inaugurated at MIT in 1956 to review introductory physics education and to design, implement and monitor improvements. It produced major new physics textbooks, instructional movies and classroom laboratory materials, which were used by high schools around the world during the 1960s and 1970s.[1]
Original members
- Professor Jerrold Zacharias, chairman
- Professor Eric Rogers
- Professor Francis L. Friedman[2]
- Professor George Gamow
- Professor Sanford C. Brown[3]
- Professor Victor Weisskopf
Books
- PSSC. Physics. 1st Edition 1960. D.C. Heath
- Judson B. Cross, John H. Dodge, James A. Walter, Uri Haber-Schaim. PSSC Physics. 3rd edition 1971. D.C. Heath
Films
- Richard Leacock, director & producer, Eric M. Rogers, lecturer, "Coulomb's Law"[4]
- Abraham Morochnik, Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume, "Frames of Reference"
- Elbert Little, "Random Events"
- John N. Shive, "Simple Waves"
See also
References
- ^ "PSSC: 50 Years Later". Compadre.org. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
- ^ MIT Museum. "MIT Museum Collections - People". Webmuseum.mit.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
- ^ "TECH_V082_S0503_P001.pdf" (PDF). Tech.mit.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
- ^ "Coulomb's Law : Richard Leacock : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Archive.org. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
External links
- AAPT Celebrates PSSC's 50th Birthday Links to more than twenty articles written by instructors of physics.
- Physical Science Study Committee, 1956, MIT Institute Archives & Special Collections, summary of fonds.
- 1959 film Coulomb's Law by Richard Leacock on the Internet Archive.
- 1960 film Frames of Reference produced by Richard Leacock on the Internet Archive.
