Physics, posters, circa 1975, photo 3

This image shows (left to right) Dr. Bill Paul (Chair of Mathematics), Dr. Jerry Francis (Mathematics), and Dr. Tom Rokoske (Physics) looking through a pile of posters promoting the metric system on a desk in classroom in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in the 1970s. Posters are seen on the chalkboard in the background, and the man in the foreground holds a poster reading, "This is not a foot it's 300 mm. Think metric." 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.

Physics

Appalachian State University

General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 14, Physics and Astronomy F2, C14.2.3.2.

University Archives, Appalachian State University

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Appalachian State University. College of Arts and Sciences. Department of Physics and Astronomy

1970-1979

Series 6 -- Colleges, Departments, Offices, and Centers

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The Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Digitization Project is supported with federal Library Service and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources through the North Carolina ECHO, 'Exploring Cultural Heritage Online' Digitization Grant Program.

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