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A further report on physics teaching in Java

NOV 01, 1958
Nearly two years ago, W. C. Dickinson wrote in Physics Today of the work of a team of Americans engaged in a program of co‐operation in physics education in Indonesia. The following article is intended to bring that story up to date.
Richard Hanau

Sprawling 2900 miles along the equator, Indonesia is a big country, rich in natural resources, overpopulated in Java, and struggling to take its place among the nations of the world. East to west it covers more than one tenth the circumference of the earth; from north to south, slightly less than one tenth the distance from pole to pole. An archipelago republic, it consists of four large islands—Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, and Sulawesi—and 3000 small ones, many uninhabited. In between in size are the well‐known islands of the former Dutch East Indies: Bali, Timor, and the other smaller Spice Islands.

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References

  1. 1. Dickinson, William C., Physics Today, 10, 2, p. 18 (1957).https://doi.org/PHTOAD

More about the authors

Richard Hanau, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y..

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