The general objectives of a course in general physics for engineers are discussed. To ascertain whether these objectives are being met, the author has reviewed several leading physics textbooks and several basic engineering textbooks in equivalent areas. He is discouraged by the multiplicity of applied topics apparently discussed in the physics courses, without apparent major emphasis on concepts. He concludes that it might be better to ask the physics department to teach a course in atomic and nuclear physics, possibly at the junior or senior level, and allow Engineering to teach the fundamentals of the classical area as they are already doing to a large extent.
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© 1955 American Association of Physics Teachers.
1955
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