Gauld, Colin F.
The Pendulum
1. The Pendulum: Its Place in Science, Culture and Pedagogy
Michael R. Matthews, Colin Gauld, Arthur Stinner
2. The Pendulum in the 21st Century-Relic or Trendsetter
Randall D. Peters
3. The Pendulum: A Paradigm for the Linear Oscillator
Ronald Newburgh
4. Introduction to the Treatment of Non-Linear Effects Using a Gravitational Pendulum
Klaus Weltner, Antonio Sergio C. Esperidião, Roberto Fernandes Silva Andrade, Paulo Miranda
5. Experimental Control of Simple Pendulum Model
César Medina, Sandra Velazco, Julia Salinas
6. Soup-can Pendulum
Randall D. Peters
7. What Makes the Foucault Pendulum Move among the Stars?
Norman Phillips
8. Galileo and the Pendulum: Latching on to Time
Peter Machamer, Brian Hepburn
9. The Treatment of Cycloidal Pendulum Motion in Newton’s
Colin Gauld
10. Pendulums, Pedagogy, and Matter: Lessons from the Editing of Newton’s
Zvi Biener, Chris Smeenk
11. The Treatment of the Motion of a Simple Pendulum in Some Early 18th Century Newtonian Textbooks
Colin Gauld
12. Newton’s Path to Universal Gravitation: The Role of the Pendulum
Pierre J. Boulos
13. Léon Foucault: His Life, Times and Achievements
Amir D. Aczel
14. The Pendulum: From Constrained Fall to the Concept of Potential
Fabio Bevilacqua, Lidia Falomo, Lucio Fregonese, Enrico Giannetto, Franco Giudice, Paolo Mascheretti
15. Idealisation and Galileo’s Pendulum Discoveries: Historical, Philosophical and Pedagogical Considerations
Michael R. Matthews
16. Pendula, Models, Constructivism and Reality
Robert Nola
17. The Poet and the Pendulum
Louis B. Rosenblatt
18. Methodology and Politics: A Proposal to Teach the Structuring Ideas of the Philosophy of Science through the Pendulum
Agustín Adúriz-Bravo
19. Degree of Influence on Perception of Belief and Social Setting: Its Relevance to Understanding Pendulum Motion
Dennis Lomas
20. Piaget and the Pendulum
Trevor G. Bond
21. What the Pendulum Can Tell Educators about Children’s Scientific Reasoning
Erin Stafford
22. Pendulum Phenomena and the Assessment of Scientific Inquiry Capabilities
Zachos Paul
23. Roles of Abductive Reasoning and Prior Belief in Children’s Generation of Hypotheses about Pendulum Motion
Yong-Ju Kwon, Jin-Su Jeong, Yun-Bok Park
24. Types of Two-Dimensional Pendulums and Their Uses in Education
Robert J. Whitaker
25. The Pendulum as a Vehicle for Transitioning from Classical to Quantum Physics: History, Quantum Concepts, and Educational Challenges
Marianne B. Barnes, James Garner, David Reid
26. Analyzing Dynamic Pendulum Motion in an Interactive Online Environment Using Flash
Cathy Mariotti Ezrailson, G. Donald Allen, Cathleen C. Loving
27. Pendulum Activities in the Israeli Physics Curriculum: Used and Missed Opportunities
Igal Galili, David Sela
28. The Pendulum as Presented in School Science Textbooks of Greece and Cyprus
Dimitris Koliopoulos, Costas Constantinou
29. The Public Understanding of Pendulum Motion: From 5 to 88 Years Old
Manabu Sumida
30. Using Excel to Simulate Pendulum Motion and Maybe Understand Calculus a Little Better
Michael Fowler
31. Teaching Cultural History from Primary Events
Robert N. Carson
32. Pendulums in The Physics Education Literature: A Bibliography
Colin Gauld
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Keywords: EDUCATION / General EDU000000
- Author(s)
- Gauld, Colin F.
- Matthews, Michael R.
- Stinner, Arthur
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2005
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Upbringing, Education
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402035265