Do‐it‐yourself apparatus for better physics teaching is now within the reach of many small departments. Developed at a dozen leading colleges and universities, the apparatus ranges in scope from a simple kinetic‐theory demonstration to a student‐model mass spectrometer. All of the items can be built with the facilities of an average departmental shop. This opportunity for local construction of apparatus is offered through the Apparatus Drawings Project, sponsored jointly by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics. The recent publication by Plenum Press of a 162‐sheet portfolio and a 289‐page bound volume of shop drawings and construction notes on thirty pieces of apparatus brings to completion the project which was undertaken in 1959 with support from the National Science Foundation.
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June 1963
June 01 1963
How to build your own teaching apparatus
The following report is a brief review of the joint AAPT‐AIP Apparatus Drawings Project which was responsible for the compilation of shop drawings and detailed information for constructing some thirty different pieces of physics teaching apparatus.
Physics Today 16 (6), 39–43 (1963);
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An AIP Staff Report; How to build your own teaching apparatus. Physics Today 1 June 1963; 16 (6): 39–43. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3050982
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