Re:

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 15:26 10/10/97 +0500, you wrote:
> ... I have two issues with our course - the range of non-physics subjects
> covered (geology, meteorology, etc.) makes for a certain  amount of unease
> for many of our physics faculty. Even though the subjects are introductory
> in nature, they can't always bring as much as they would like to them due to
> lack of background. ...

> R. Allen Shotwell

I could suppose your students would be as fascinated as I was at a
demonstration, out on the lawn, of plate seismics.

Who could not understand taking a sledge-hammer to a big steel plate,
and watching the pen recorder channels wiggle at reflections from 
the shallow strata?

 On the met front, a trip to a pilot briefing room of an FAA facility
to talk to the briefers ( sigh - there are still a few accessible 
facilities) might capture a student's attention...

Sincerely
 
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK