Instructor: Richard A. Lindgren, Research Professor of Physics
Lecturer and Demonstrator: Lou Bloomfield, Professor of Physics
Textbook: How Things Work: the Physics of Everyday Life
2nd
edition, ISBN 0-471-38151-9 an original undergraduate course developed
by Lou Bloomfield, Professor of Physics, University of Virginia
A graduate course for physical science and high school physics teachers: a practical introduction to physics and science in everyday life. This course considers objects from our daily environment and focuses on their principles of operation, histories, and relationships to one another. Physics 606 emphasizes objects involving electromagnetism, light, special materials, and nuclear energy.
The undergraduate version of this course is Physics 106.