Physical Science Study Committee

The Physical Science Study Committee was inaugurated at MIT in 1956 with the objective to review introductory physics education and designing and monitoring improvements. It produced a major new physics textbooks, instructional movies and classroom laboratory materials, that were used by high schools around the world during the 1960s and 1970s.^[1]

Original members

• Professor Jerrold Zacharias, chairman
• Professor Eric Rogers
• Professor Francis L. Friedman^[2]
• Professor George Gamow
• Professor Sanford C. Brown^[3]
• Professor Victor Weisskopf

Books

• PSSC. Physics. 1st Edition 1960. D.C. Heath
• Judson B. Cross, John H. Dodge, James A. Walter, Uri Haber-Schaim. PSSC Physics. 3rd edition 1971. D.C. Heath

Films

• Richard Leacock, director & producer, Eric M. Rogers, lecturer, "Coulomb's Law"^[4]
• Abraham Morochnik, Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume, "Frames of Reference"
• Elbert Little, "Random Events"
• John N. Shive, "Simple Waves"

See also

• Harvard Project Physics

References

1. ↑ "PSSC: 50 Years Later". Compadre.org. Retrieved 2014-04-06. 
2. ↑ MIT Museum. "MIT Museum Collections - People". Webmuseum.mit.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-06. 
3. ↑ "TECH_V082_S0503_P001.pdf". Tech.mit.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-06. 
4. ↑ "Coulomb's Law : Richard Leacock : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Archive.org. Retrieved 2014-04-06. 

External links

• AAPT Celebrates PSSC's 50th Birthday Links to more than twenty articles written by instructors of physics.
• Physical Science Study Committee, 1956, MIT Institute Archives & Special Collections, summary of fonds.
• 1959 film Coulomb's Law by Richard Leacock on the Internet Archive.
• 1960 film Frames of Reference produced by Richard Leacock on the Internet Archive.