Title
Physics, class, 1979, photo 2
Description
This image shows Professor Walter Connolly giving a demonstration during a class in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in October 1979. 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
Ths description of the image is incomplete:
... Conno;;y is setting up demonstrations for a show of visiting high school students. These include using a strobe light to examine falling water drops and a rotating fan in the Dpartment of Physics ...