The language of the arrows

• Autores: Joe Heafner
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 53, Nº. 7, 2015, pág. 445
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • I think and hope that most experienced physics and astronomy teachers would agree that teaching is both a science and a creative art. There is a way to creatively introduce vectors into introductory astronomy that lets students learn some basic, but fundamental, physics and at the same time demonstrates that mathematics need not be a barrier in a science course. The approach is entirely graphical in that it is based on the geometric properties of vectors and is implemented by drawing diagrams. Despite the simplicity, it allows astronomy students to experience genuine physics reasoning at about the same level of a conceptual physics course (and possibly a higher level).