Paradigms in Physics: Restructuring the Upper Level

Physics Today

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 53-58

  Manogue, Corinne A ^a   Krane, Kenneth S ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETISM; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; TEACHING; WAVE EQUATIONS;

PARADIGMS;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 0141529777     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1620835     Document Type: Review

References (11)

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