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PHYSICS TEACHING

Spring Fall: MicroCosmos [NAL150/NAL220]

Från quarks till quasars - en del av vägen

Teaching our future primary, secondary and high-school teachers.

This spring I will also give a pair of classes, ``The Physics Microcosmos,'' for students at the Göteborg Teachers School.

Lecture series NAL150

Lecture series NAL220

Some background reading for inspiration

• George Gamow ``Thirty Years that Shook Physics - The Story of Quantum Theory,'' (Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1966).
• George Gamow ``Mr Tompkins in paperback'' (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1965); Book contains books ``Mr Tompkins in Wonderland'' and ``Mr Tompkins Explores the Atom.''
• Robert Gilmore ``Alice in Quantumland - an allegory of quantum physics'' (Springer Verlag, New York, 1995).
• Jearl Walker ``The Flying Circus of Physics WITH ANSWERS'' (John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New York, 1975.
• Robert Mills ``Space, Time and Quanta - an introduction to contemporary physics'' (W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1994).
• Lennart Björk and Christine Räisänen ``Academic Writing - a university writing course'' (Bromley, Kent, England, 1997; Studentlitteratur).
• George Gamow ``Videnskab er sjov,'' (Skandinavisk bogforlag); dansk, translated from ``One Two Three ... Infinity''
• Ingvar Lindgren, Jan Nilsson, Olof Beckman, Erik Karlsson, and Töivelemb Kivikas, ``Fysik 3: Kvantfysik,'' (Almqvist och Wiksell Förlag AB, Stockholm 1971), p. 33-70, p. 195-254, p. 391-448, och p. 515-575.