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Re: AP Physics Experments List



Tim,
You caught me. Einstein won the Nobel Prize for the analysis of
the photoelectric effect's data. Off the top of my head, I forget who
did the experiment - spent the day in Atlanta at the APS. I know I am
missing Hawking but I got to see Hans Bethe and Sid Drell talk.
Herb - those are important people also but again I am worried about
flooding those poor little kids' heads. I am not saying that physicists
should neglect them but AP students with so many equations to remember
(ideal world - they could rederive all equations from first principles)
shouldn't worry about so many experiments and famous people. We could
on and on coming up with who did what but the main thing is what is
minimum for the students. They are our first responsibility.
Anyone not at the APS meeting is truly missing out. If it
wasn't for my damn classes I would have been there all week.


Sam Held



-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Sullivan x5830 [mailto:sullivan@KENYON.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 11:17 AM
To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
Subject: Re: AP Physics Experments List


I hope no one is suggesting that either Einstein or Landau did the
experiments
associated with their names in these lists. :^)

How about Perrin's work on Brownian motion; the first direct evidence of
the
existence of atoms?

Tim Sullivan