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Hammond, Dick E. – 1985
This paper examines how the revolution in human thinking, with the smaller revolution in astronomy begun by Nicolus Copernicus, has plunged science educators into the new Age of Information. Examples which illustrate this development and change in human thinking (from Copernicus' time to the present) are provided from such disciplines as…
Descriptors: High Schools, Information Science, Science Education, Science History
Peer reviewedWilson, David B. – American Journal of Physics, 1981
Surveys the research of scientists like Joule, Kelvin, Maxwell, Clausius, and Boltzmann as it comments on the basic conceptual issues involved in the development of a more precise kinetic theory and the idea of a kinetic atom. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Atomic Structure, College Science, Higher Education, Kinetic Molecular Theory
