Abstract :
A sound understanding of the elementary principles of physics is a necessary basis for the study of most branches of science and engineering. Of all school subjects, physics is the one which can show most clearly the interdependence of theory and experiment which is so fundamental to technology. In a large number of schools, it is the subject which is most closely related to engineering. If, as is usual, a schoolboy is not taught engineering subjects as such, his ideas about the interest, opportunities and difficulties of technological studies are likely to be influenced most strongly by his physics teachers. Thus the teaching of physics greatly affects the understanding of those pupils who become technologists, and is often a determining influence in their choice of career.
