An attempt to survey all of the topics traditionally covered in undergraduate physics courses in one semester, with strong emphasis on everyday phenomena of nature, is described. In order to compress a survey course in physics into one semester, a number of unusual techniques were used and are described. A point was also made, during the course, to debunk certain brands of pseudoscience popular among college students, with mixed success. The course was aimed at the mass audience of nonscience majors having only a one‐semester general sciences degree requirement, used no details of mathematics, and relied heavily on lecture demonstrations, slides, film‐loops, and overhead projector artwork.
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1978
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