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...Paul Bamberg, lecturer on Physics will experiment with self-paced learning in Physics 1 with the $5,000 grant awarded him by Bok. Bamberg plans to divide his classes into three sections. One will have no lectures - although tutors will be available to answer question--and will have self-paced examination. Another will weekly assignments and the third will combine aspects of the other two Bamberg will select each section...
...supplied him, on the way, with some of his most typical images. His biggest etching, Landscape with the Cannon, sets a turbaned Turk (which Dürer copied from a painting by Giovanni's older brother Gentile Bellini) in the midst of a landscape he sketched on the way to Bamberg. Around 1501 he engraved Nemesis?the goddess of fortune, bulbous as a German wardrobe, riding her sphere above the earth. Though it looks nothing like the studies in ideal proportion by Italian artists he had seen in Venice, her body in fact incorporates an intricate proportional scheme, while the landscape...
...Bamberg helped initiate the use of taped lectures and overhead projectors in teaching Physics 1. In Physics 181, he used musical interludes in the lecture tapes and distributed lecture notes...
Instead of doing research, Bamberg is writing a textbook for Physics 1. Explaining his decision, he said, "I would rather write something 10,000 people will read than write for an audience of 100." He hopes to do research after he completes his book...
Established by Harold T. White, Jr. '37, the prize is given to a non-tenured instructor or teaching fellow for outstanding teaching in the introductory courses in Physics or Applied Physics. A joint student-faculty committee selected Bamberg for the prize and presented it to him at a luncheon given in his honor at the Faculty Club last Thursday...