Title
Physics, faculty, circa 1970, photo 2
Description
This image shows Professor Walter Connolly working with a student on an experiment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in the 1960s. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is in the College of Arts and Sciences and maintains the Rankin Science Observatory in Rankin Science Hall, built 1963, and the Dark Sky Observatory, opened 1981, twenty miles northeast of Boone, NC. The Department offers an undergraduate degrees in applied physics and graduate degrees in engineering physics, as well as courses in industrial, chemical, computational, environmental, medical, and radiation safety physics.
Subject
Students
Student Activities
Faculty
Physics
Appalachian State University
Source
General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 13, Physics and Astronomy, C14.2.3.1.
Publisher
University Archives, Appalachian State University
Comments
Tom Rokoske
The description of the experiment is not correct. The end of line one and part of line two should read:
... is working with a student on an acoustical cavitation experiment in the Department of ...