The Pendulum Scientific, Historical, Philosophical and Educational Perspectives /
The pendulum is a universal topic in primary and secondary schools, but its full potential for learning about physics, the nature of science, and the relationships between science, mathematics, technology, society and culture is seldom realised. Contributions to this 32-chapter anthology deal with t...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2005.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- The Pendulum: Its Place in Science, Culture and Pedagogy
- The Pendulum in the 21st Century-Relic or Trendsetter
- The Pendulum: A Paradigm for the Linear Oscillator
- to the Treatment of Non-Linear Effects Using a Gravitational Pendulum
- Experimental Control of Simple Pendulum Model
- Soup-can Pendulum
- What Makes the Foucault Pendulum Move among the Stars?
- Galileo and the Pendulum: Latching on to Time
- The Treatment of Cycloidal Pendulum Motion in Newton’s Principia
- Pendulums, Pedagogy, and Matter: Lessons from the Editing of Newton’s Principia
- The Treatment of the Motion of a Simple Pendulum in Some Early 18th Century Newtonian Textbooks
- Newton’s Path to Universal Gravitation: The Role of the Pendulum
- Léon Foucault: His Life, Times and Achievements
- The Pendulum: From Constrained Fall to the Concept of Potential
- Idealisation and Galileo’s Pendulum Discoveries: Historical, Philosophical and Pedagogical Considerations
- Pendula, Models, Constructivism and Reality
- The Poet and the Pendulum
- Methodology and Politics: A Proposal to Teach the Structuring Ideas of the Philosophy of Science through the Pendulum
- Degree of Influence on Perception of Belief and Social Setting: Its Relevance to Understanding Pendulum Motion
- Piaget and the Pendulum
- What the Pendulum Can Tell Educators about Children’s Scientific Reasoning
- Pendulum Phenomena and the Assessment of Scientific Inquiry Capabilities
- Roles of Abductive Reasoning and Prior Belief in Children’s Generation of Hypotheses about Pendulum Motion
- Types of Two-Dimensional Pendulums and Their Uses in Education
- The Pendulum as a Vehicle for Transitioning from Classical to Quantum Physics: History, Quantum Concepts, and Educational Challenges
- Analyzing Dynamic Pendulum Motion in an Interactive Online Environment Using Flash
- Pendulum Activities in the Israeli Physics Curriculum: Used and Missed Opportunities
- The Pendulum as Presented in School Science Textbooks of Greece and Cyprus
- The Public Understanding of Pendulum Motion: From 5 to 88 Years Old
- Using Excel to Simulate Pendulum Motion and Maybe Understand Calculus a Little Better
- Teaching Cultural History from Primary Events
- Pendulums in The Physics Education Literature: A Bibliography.
