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13 October 1995 Getting students to see the light
Joe H. Schuch, Zhouling Wu
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Abstract
Currently in the United States as well as many other countries, the percentage of college students who are interested in science and engineering is decreasing. Can optics, being an area of physics which has so many applications to everyday life, be helpful to reignite student interest? In this paper we address problems related to this falloff of student interest and discuss their possible solutions. In particular, efforts are made to integrate existing techniques for general physics eduction into optics courses at the introductory level.
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Joe H. Schuch and Zhouling Wu "Getting students to see the light", Proc. SPIE 2525, 1995 International Conference on Education in Optics, (13 October 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.224003
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KEYWORDS
Physics

Computing systems

Optics education

Ocean optics

Integrated optics

Roads

Applied mathematics

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