Reasoning in Physics The Part of Common Sense /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Viennot, Laurence (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001.
• Θέματα: Education.; Science education.; Teaching.; Physics.; Science Education.; Physics, general.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

 For a meaningful understanding of physics, it is necessary to realise that this corpus of knowledge operates in a register different from natural thought. This book aims at situating the main trends of common reasoning in physics with respect to some essential aspects of accepted theory. It analyses a great many research results based on studies of pupils and students at various academic levels, involving a range of physical situations. It shows the impressive generality of the trends of common thought, as well as their resistance to teaching. The book's main focus is to underline to what extent natural thought is organised. As a result of this mapping out of trends of reasoning, some suggestions for teaching are presented; these have already influenced recent curricula in France. This book is intended for teachers and teacher trainers principally, but students can also benefit from it to improve their understanding of physics and of their own ways of reasoning. 

 The main lines -- Physics: what is essential, what is natural? -- A trend in reasoning: materialising the objects of physics -- The real world: intrinsic quantities -- The essential: laws for quantities “at time t” -- Quasistatic or causal changes in systems -- The impact of common sense Some investigations -- Quantities, laws and sign conventions -- Changing frames of reference at eleven -- Common reasoning about sound -- Constants and functional reduction -- Rotation and translation: simultaneity? -- From electrostatics to electrodynamics: historical and present difficulties -- Superposition of electric fields and causality.