A two-axis solar tracker and its interactive kiosk were designed by an interdisciplinary team of students and faculty. The objective was to develop a publicly accessible kiosk that would facilitate the study of energy usage and production on campus. Tracking is accomplished by an open-loop algorithm, microcontroller, and ham radio rotator. Solar…

New physics programs in Great Britain include a program with emphasis on mathematics and other sciences, and a joint honors program combining physics with another discipline, such as philosophy, economics, or English. Future programs may include even broader programs, in areas such as energy science or resources utilization. (MLH)

Descriptions of undergraduate physics programs are given: physics with geophysics physics with solid state electronics, physics with medical physics, and honors physics. (MDR)

Describes the Project Physics curriculum, including its origins, content and structure, current level of use, and philosophy of its approach. (MLH)

Argues for the inclusion of additional science history in the Nuffield physics curriculum. (SL)

Outlines the first South-East Asian conference on university physics education held in Penang, Malaysia, May 16-21, 1977, to identify, analyze, and compare physics curricula and to improve physics education in developing countries. (SL)

Discusses ways to improve physics curricula, such as including events from science history and using discovery techniques. (MLH)

Describes physics curriculum development for secondary schools being conducted at the Institut fur die Padagogik der Naturwissenschaften in the Federal Republic of Germany. (MLH)

Briefly discusses the contents of this issue, which concentrates on providing a survey of the wide variety of courses available to English school-leavers who wish either to specialize in physics or to include some physics along with other subjects in their studies. (MLH)

Describes recent changes in the A-level physics syllabus of the University of London. Discusses the new emphasis on understanding and applying rather than pure role learning, and the changes in testing procedures caused by this emphasis. (MLH)

Urges that more applied science and technology be included in college science curricula. Reviews courses which are working toward this end, such as an engineering course which requires the student to spend a week in an industrial environment and to produce a report on his visit. (MLH)

Explains the objectives and the offerings of two honors courses in engineering physics and physics and education at Loughborough University of Technology. (GA)

Explains a university report proposing changes in the existing sixth-form curriculum to a common core, for all sixth-form syllabuses in physics, that will include: mechanics, waves, electricity and magnetism, and matter. Comments on the implications of the proposal are also stated. (GA)

A review of topics and undergraduate programs in physics with medical applications at Queen Elizabeth College, London, is given. (MDR)

Discusses an experimental curriculum project in Hungary that introduces quantum mechanics into the secondary school. Briefly covers the following topics: superposition and intensity of waves, de Broglie wavelength, the uncertainty principle, ground states, quantum numbers, and symmetry. (MLH)