Word: vector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naval Academy announced that it was junking six "hardware'' courses, e.g., "Naval Boilers'" and "Ship Stability," in favor of "studies of a fundamental nature which will not soon go out of date." Among them: a new course in vector calculus, a 25% increase in the basic physics course, a general shift in all engineering subjects "away from applied engineering to more of a basic science approach." In another innovation, Annapolis will credit 190 incoming middies this fall for a total of 316 college courses they took before entering the academy. The new students will move straight into...
...social sciences by ten minutes each. But like Annapolis, West Point will continue to emphasize science (62% of the nonmilitary curriculum). This year West Point will boost studies in nuclear physics, electronics, the effects of radiation. Plebes who are tops in mathematics will leapfrog into advanced subjects, e.g., vector analysis...
...Such as experiments indicating that the bactericidal property of silver, from which most chalices are made, plus the practice of turning the cup between communicants and wiping its drinking edge with a clean cloth (called a "purificator"), make the common Communion cup "not an important vector of infectious disease...
Physics instructors find, moreover, that the teaching of important concepts from a mathematical point of view is insufficient for their purposes, the report said. Consequently, the material must be repeated, not only once, but in every course using the concept. Instruction in vector analysis may be repeated in as many as five courses, students reported...