Title
Physics, class, 1968, photo 1
Description
This image shows two students sitting at a table making notes in notebooks in a classroom in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in February 1968. A scale and other laboratory equipment are in front of them. 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
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 in this image is incomplete. Line one should read:
... students are shown recording data for measuring the specific heat of a metal in a laboratory in the Department of ...
line three should read:
... necessary equipment to carry out the experiment is shown in front of them. These include a steam generator, beam balance and calorimeter.