The Teaching of Optics in Schools

Abstract

AT the annual meeting in London of the Science Masters' Association, a large body of schoolmasters met to consider the findings of the committee convened by the Council of the Physical Society to report upon various matters connected with the teaching of geometrical optics. The discussion was opened by Mr. G. N. Pingriff, of Merchant Taylors' School, a member of the committee, who gave a brief summary of the report in so far as it is concerned with teaching in schools, and confining himself chiefly to the question of signs of distances involved in lens and mirror calculations and experiments.