Thinking in physics :
Viennot, L,
Thinking in physics : the pleasure of reasoning and understanding / L. Viennot. - xix, 161 páginas : 58 ilustraciones, 5 ilustraciones en color.
Springer eBooks
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.
9789401786669
LC8-6691
Thinking in physics : the pleasure of reasoning and understanding / L. Viennot. - xix, 161 páginas : 58 ilustraciones, 5 ilustraciones en color.
Springer eBooks
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.
9789401786669
LC8-6691