Специальные тексты по английскому языку: Для студентов физико-математического факультета / Сост. И. А. Вахитова. - Уфа, 2005. - 84 с.
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CONTENTS
PREFACE.............................................................................5
I. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE......................................................6
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY....................................................6
THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN ENGLAND AND WALES........................................9
SECONDARY SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.....................................................12
INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS.............................................................13
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS................................................................14
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS (II).....................................................15
MODERN S CHOOLS................................................................17
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS..........................................................18
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.........................................................20
INFANT SCHOOLS................................................................20
FAMILY GROUPING...........................................................21
PREPARATORY SCHOOLS....................................................22
BOARDING-SCHOOLS...............................................................23
SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULA..........................................................24
THE CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION............................................25
TEACHERS.........................................................................26
COLLEGES OF EDUCATION..............................................27
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY............................................................28
II. MATHEMATICS..............................................................29
THE PLAC E OF MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD..................................29
FRACTIONS........................................................................30
HOW LETTERS ARE USED IN ALGEBRA.................................................31
ABOUT MATHEMATICS..............................................................32
GEOMETRY......................................................................33
WHY FORMULAS ARE IMPORTANT..............................................34
USING TRIGONOMETRY AND ALGEBRA IN GEOMETRY.....................................35
THE D EVELOPMENT OF ALGEBRA...................................................36
III. PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY..................................................38
ELECTRICITY - SOUND AND LIGHT.................................................38
PHYSICS.......................................................................40
MOTION........................................................................41
ELECTRICITY...................................................................43
ATOMS.........................................................................44
RADIANT ENERGY.............................................................46
NUCLEAR PHYS ICS.............................................................47
THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY............................................48
GALAXIES.....................................................................49
MARS, THE RED PLAN ET.......................................................50
THE MOON....................................................................51
IV. COMPUTER SCIENCE....................................................53
WHAT IS COMPUTING?........................................................53
INFORMATION, MACHIN WORDS, INSTRUCTIONS, ADRESSES AND REASONABLE OPERATIONS.............55
HOW MUCH SHOULD AN EDUCATED MAN KNOW ABOUT COMUTERS?........58
INPUT AND OUTPUT UNITS......................................................59
MEMORY OR STORAGE UNIT.......................................................61
THE FLOPPY D IS KS...........................................................65
BUBBLE MEMORY................................................................66
HISTORY AND FUTURE OF THE INTERNET..........................................66
CHIPS.......................................................................67
THE ROLE OF THE MAS S MEDIA..................................................68
MY FAVOURITE TV PROGRAMS AND PERS ONALITIES....................................68
WHAT IS THE INTERNET TODAY?...................................................69
ARE TEACHING MACHINES GOOD?....................................................71
E-MAIL IN OUR LIFE TODAY......................................................72
PERSONAL COMPUTERS...........................................................74
V. SCIENTISTS.........................................................76
ARCHIMEDES..................................................................76
EUCLID ................................................................... 77
GALILEO ................................................................. 78
FERMAT...................................................................79
ISAAC NEWTON................................................................80
ALBERT EINSTEIN.................................................................82
