Thinking in Physics The pleasure of reasoning and understanding /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Viennot, L. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Education.; Science education.; Teaching.; Physics.; Condensed matter.; Science Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

Read this book if you want to know how to give students the intellectual pleasure of understanding physics. Read it even if you fear that this goal is out of reach – you may be surprised! Laurence Viennot shows ways to deal with the awkward fact that common sense thinking is often not the same as sc...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Foreword to the French Edition
• Preface
• Part I Learning to think: words, images and functions
• 1 Essential tools for comprehension
• 2 Some surprising invariances
• 3 Analysis of functional dependence: a powerful tool
• 4 Putting things into practice
• Part II Physics: linking factors
• 5 Links between phenomena in terms of type of functional dependence
• 6 The relationship between different approaches to the same phenomenon
• Part III Simplicity: ruin or triumph of coherence?
• 7 Optimising simple experiments
• 8 Popularising physics: what place for reasoning?
• 9 Conclusion
• Appendix A - What this book owes to physics education research
• Appendix B - The weight of air and molecular impacts: how do they relate?
• Appendix C –Causal  linear reasoning
• Appendix D - When physics should conform to beliefs: pierced bottles
• Appendix E – Reactions of trainee journalists and scientific writers confronted with inconsistency
• Appendix F – “Facilitating elements" of communication: Year 11 students ranking the risks of misunderstanding.