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Gauld, Colin F.

The Pendulum

Gauld, Colin F. - The Pendulum, ebook

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Table of contents

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 Principia
Colin Gauld

10. Pendulums, Pedagogy, and Matter: Lessons from the Editing of Newton’s Principia
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

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Publisher
Springer
Publication year
2005
Language
en
Edition
1
Category
Upbringing, Education
Format
Ebook
eISBN (PDF)
9781402035265

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