Reading Maxwell in Conceptual Physics

• Scott W. Bonham ^[1]
  1. [1] Western Kentucky University

     Western Kentucky University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 56, Nº. 5, 2018, págs. 320-321
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An important aspect of science education involves helping students learn to read and communicate scientific information and arguments. In this note, I would like to share a resource that I have come across which I have found to be a useful tool for helping students improve those skills, learn content material, and acquaint them with a great scientist. Specifically, this is having non-science college students in my course Light, Color and Vision read and discuss a letter by James Clerk Maxwell entitled “On the Theory of Colours in Relation to Colour-Blindness” (see Fig. 1).