Title
Physics, faculty, circa 1975, photo 5
Description
This image shows Professor Karl Mamola swinging a collection of looped strings in a classroom the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in 1975. 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
Faculty
Physics
Appalachian State University
Source
General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 14, Physics and Astronomy F2, C14.2.3.2.
Publisher
University Archives, Appalachian State University
Comments
Tom Rokoske
The description of the demonstration by Dr. Karl Mamola is not correct. It should be:
The image shows Professor Karl Mamola siwinging a single illuminated loop of light hooked to an alternating voltage. The alternating voltage source causes the loop of light to turn on and off and when swung appears to be many loops.