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PHYSICS TEACHING FROM

1950s to 21st CENTURY

Dr John Patterson

jpatters5@bigpond.com

Old WEA Bookshop in lane

Kerr Grant‟s last verse for “If”

If you can find a way to smash the atom

And yet not build the bits into a bomb

If you can say, “Well I a democrat am”

And yet see something in a com

If in the Brave New World‟s big university

You sometimes find your weekend papers stiff

Perhaps „twill help to overcome adversity

If thinking of this day, you think of “If”.

Number of Physics I Students PHYSICS I

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

1959 1962 1965 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010

Number of Honours Students HONS

0

5

10

15

20

25

1959 1964 1969 1974 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009

Number of Honours Math Phys HONSMP

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

1959 1964 1969 1974 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009

Medical physicists at launch of

MSc: self (U of A), Alun Beddoe

(RAH), David Paix (UniSA)

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