An applied physics curriculum usually contains a few classes in an applied discipline, like geology or electrical engineering.
Some gear their physics curriculum toward the Olympiad syllabus and exam.
Most material a student encounters in the undergraduate physics curriculum is based on discoveries and insights of a century or more in the past.
At Cornell University in 1969 he led a group of faculty members who modernized the university's physics curriculum.
He recast the undergraduate physics curriculum, wrote 14 books between 1933 and 1968, and built a department of major international prestige.
He is particularly interested in the introductory physics curriculum for engineering and science majors.
After helping to revise Cornell's physics curriculum, he became a professor emeritus of physics in 1984.
Attempts by the present educational leadership to revise the physics curriculum, or improve the methods for teaching English or math are piecemeal at best.
At Georgia, Meigs implemented the university's first physics curriculum in 1801.
Reports of new developments in methods for teaching physics and in the physics curriculum.