Created as a guide for high school and college physics teachers, this handbook contains hundreds of apparatus demonstrations that require only low-cost, everyday materials.

About the Author

University of Minnesota physics professor George Freier (1915 to 2005) was as well known for his avuncular demeanor as his studies of lightning, rain, snowflakes and other weather-related phenomena.

Freier graduated from River Falls State Teachers College in Wisconsin in 1938 and taught science and mathematics in White Lake, Wisconsin, for three years.

He received a master of arts degree from the University of Minnesota in 1941 and worked in the Naval Ordnance Laboratory from 1942 to 1944. Freier received a doctorate in nuclear physics from the university in 1949 but switched to atmospheric physics 10 years later.

He joined the University of Minnesota s physics faculty as an assistant professor in 1949 and became a full professor in 1958, retiring in 1985. Freier studied the meteorology and physics of large thunderstorms, especially the electrical aspects. He developed a theory of rain formation in which radioactive atoms played a role in nucleation of water to form droplets.

He took an interest in weather lore and frequently answered reporters questions about the validity of weather proverbs; he also wrote a book about weather proverbs.

Freier was an early member of the Minnesota section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. A University of Chicago colleague credited his Demonstration Handbook for Physics, co-written with F.J. Anderson, with helping turn shy faculty into convincing demonstrators and allowing students to enjoy physics more.

Freier was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from River Falls State University and a Distinguished Service Citation from the American Association of Physics Teachers for his service to undergraduate education.

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