Reasoning in Physics The Part of Common Sense /

• Main Author: Viennot, Laurence (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001.
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.