Title
Physics, class, 1980, photo 1
Description
This image shows Professor Gordon Lindsay watching as a student writes on a piece of computer paper in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in July 1980. 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 14, Physics and Astronomy F2, C14.2.3.2.
Publisher
University Archives, Appalachian State University
Comments
Tom Rokoske
The description of what the student is doing is incorrect. It should be:
... is watching as Gamma Ray spectral data is outputed from a Multichannnel Channel Analyzer in the Department of Physics ...