Describes journals and reference books that would be of help to secondary physics teachers. Lists subscriptions and addresses for the journals mentioned. (GS)

This paper analyzes what is involved in patterning part of an introduction to politics along the lines of physical sciences, and it presents contents and results of a course in which the author did this. (Author/ND)

Describes a course designed for students to gain knowledge with a degree of relevance by providing opportunities for student appreciation of the physics associated with features in everyday life. (GS)

Describes the construction of a moving model for demonstrating kinetic theory and explains how it can be used to represent all three states of matter. (GS)

An undergraduate experiment is described which employs a relaxation method for the measurement of the thermal conductivity and specific heat of a metallic sample in a temperature range of 0-100 degrees centigrade. (Author/CP)

Describes petroleum exploration techniques, particularly the interpretation of seismograms. (CP)

Lists activities of the February 2-5, 1976, joint meeting of The American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in New York city. (CP)

Describes an interdisciplinary kinesiology course which incorporated a minicourse on the physics of sports. Outlines the topics treated in the minicourse and reports findings of student gains in both the affective and cognitive domains. (GS)

States that final exams can best motivate students if the exams are counted substantially toward the final course grade. Proposes a weighting system in which a performance on the final which exceeds the student's average would be weighed more heavily than a poor performance. (CP)

Instructions are provided for the construction of 4.5 foot diameter planetarium shells. (CP)

Describes student achievement and attitudes of two groups of undergraduate physics students. Audiotutorial and lecture-recitation-laboratory instructional modes in which students were assigned into groups by either two methods were compared. (CP)

Three sets of analytical wave functions are used to calculate the Na (3s---3p) transition differential and total electron excitation cross sections by Born approximations. Results show expected large variations in values. (Author/CP)