Some years ago I wrote a note about Packard's apparatus1 to honor an early physics teacher who designed apparatus. In this note I honor Dr. A. Wilmer Duff of Worchester Polytechnic Institute in Worchester, Mass., for his development of a simple and inexpensive method of studying uniformly accelerated motion.
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Teaching
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Demonstration Experiments in Physics, edited by Richard Manliffe Sutton (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1938), pp. 38–39.
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Newton Henry Black, New Laboratory Experiments in Practical Physics (The MacMillan Company, New York, 1929), p. 92.
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