Thinking in Physics
Description
The book has three parts:
making sense of special scientific ways of reasoning (words, images, functions)
making connections between very different topics, each illuminating the other
simplifying, looking for consistency and avoiding incoherent over-simplification
The book is enhanced with supplementary online materials that will allow readers to further expand their teaching or research interests and think about them more deeply.
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Previous books:
VIENNOT L. 1979. Le raisonnement spontané en dynamique élémentaire. Paris : Hermann.
VIENNOT L. 1996. Raisonner en physique: la part du sens commun. Avec la contribution de A. Benséghir, H. Caldas, F.Chauvet, J.L. Closset, W. Kaminski, L. Maurines, J. Menigaux, S. Rainson, S. Rozier, E. Saltiel, Bruxelles: De Boeck.
VIENNOT L. 2002. Razonar en fisica. La contribucion del sentido comun. Trad: M.J. Pozo Municio. Madrid: Ant Machado libros (Visor Distribuciones).
VIENNOT L. 2001. Reasoning in Physics The part of common sense, Trad. A. Moisy. Dordrecht: Kluwer Ac. Pub.
VIENNOT L. 2002. Enseigner la Physique. Avec la collaboration de U.Besson, F. Chauvet, P. Colin, C. Hirn-Chaine, W. Kaminski, S. Rainson. Bruxelles: De Boeck.
VIENNOT L. 2003. Teaching physics. With the collaboration of U. Besson, F. Chauvet, P. Colin, C. Hirn-Chaine, W. Kaminski, S. Rainson. Trad. M. Greenwood & A. Moisy. Dordrecht: Kluwer Ac. Pub.
VIENNOT L. & DEBRU C. (Eds.) 2003. Enquête sur le concept de causalité. Paris: PUF.
VIENNOT L (Dir.) 2009. Didactique, épistémologie et histoire des sciences - Penser l'enseignement. Collection Sciences, histoire et société, Paris : PUF.
VIENNOT, L. 2011. En physique, pour comprendre . Collection Grenoble Sciences. Paris : EDP Sciences.
Content
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.