The course is taught from a home-page on the Web. The large lecture sections now focus on familiarizing students with the web site, commenting on the material and illustrating it with demonstrations, and testing for comprehension after every main point by using the questions embedded in the web site.
Every lecture is a quiz and every quiz counts towards the student's final grade.
In this model of instruction, the lecture ceases to be the main information transmitting device. Instead, it becomes a device for motivating students to use the web site which is then the main teaching engine of the course. The course focuses on the technological applications of physical principles in order to teach those principles in a concrete way. All of the course activities take place in the laboratory so that students can participate actively at all times. Amoung the activies are multimedia computer programs interfaced to laboratory experiments and simple hands-on projects using common household appliances and materials.