The pendulum : scientific, historical, philosophical and educational perspectives / edited by Michael R. Matthews, Colin F. Gauld, and Arthur Stinner.
"The pendulum is a universal topic in primary and secondary schools, but its full potential for learning about physics, the nature of science, and the relationships between science, mathematics, technology, society and culture is seldom realised.Contributions to this 32-chapter anthology deal w...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction:
- The Pendulum: Its Place in Science, Culture and Pedagogy / Michael R. Matthews, Colin Gauld, Arthur Stinner
- Scientific Perspectives:
- The Pendulum in the 21st Century-Relic or Trendsetter / Randall D. Peters
- The Pendulum: A Paradigm for the Linear Oscillator / Ronald Newburgh
- Introduction to the Treatment of Non-Linear Effects Using a Gravitational Pendulum / Klaus Weltner, Antonio Sergio C. Esperidião, Roberto Fernandes Silva Andrade, Paulo Miranda
- Experimental Control of Simple Pendulum Model / César Medina, Sandra Velazco, Julia Salinas
- Soup-can Pendulum / Randall D. Peters
- What Makes the Foucault Pendulum Move among the Stars? / Norman Phillips
- Historical Perspectives:
- Galileo and the Pendulum: Latching on to Time / Peter Machamer, Brian Hepburn
- The Treatment of Cycloidal Pendulum Motion in Newton’s Principia / Colin Gauld
- Pendulums, Pedagogy, and Matter: Lessons from the Editing of Newton’s Principia / Zvi Biener, Chris Smeenk
- The Treatment of the Motion of a Simple Pendulum in Some Early 18th Century Newtonian Textbooks / Colin Gauld
- Newton’s Path to Universal Gravitation: The Role of the Pendulum / Pierre J. Boulos
- Léon Foucault: His Life, Times and Achievements / Amir D. Aczel
- The Pendulum: From Constrained Fall to the Concept of Potential / Fabio Bevilacqua, Lidia Falomo, Lucio Fregonese, Enrico Giannetto, Franco Giudice, Paolo Mascheretti
- Philosophical Perspectives:
- Idealisation and Galileo’s Pendulum Discoveries: Historical, Philosophical and Pedagogical Considerations / Michael R. Matthews
- Pendula, Models, Constructivism and Reality / Robert Nola
- The Poet and the Pendulum / Louis B. Rosenblatt
- Methodology and Politics: A Proposal to Teach the Structuring Ideas of the Philosophy of Science through the Pendulum / Agustín Adúriz-Bravo
- Degree of Influence on Perception of Belief and Social Setting: Its Relevance to Understanding Pendulum Motion / Dennis Lomas
- Piaget and the Pendulum / Trevor G. Bond
- What the Pendulum Can Tell Educators about Children’s Scientific Reasoning / Erin Stafford
- Pendulum Phenomena and the Assessment of Scientific Inquiry Capabilities / Paul Zachos
- 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
- Types of Two-Dimensional Pendulums and Their Uses in Education / Robert J. Whitaker
- 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
- Analyzing Dynamic Pendulum Motion in an Interactive Online Environment Using Flash / Cathy Mariotti Ezrailson, G. Donald Allen, Cathleen C. Loving
- Pendulum Activities in the Israeli Physics Curriculum: Used and Missed Opportunities / Igal Galili, David Sela
- The Pendulum as Presented in School Science Textbooks of Greece and Cyprus / Dimitris Koliopoulos, Costas Constantinou
- The Public Understanding of Pendulum Motion: From 5 to 88 Years Old / Manabu Sumida
- Using Excel to Simulate Pendulum Motion and Maybe Understand Calculus a Little Better / Michael Fowler
- Teaching Cultural History from Primary Events / Robert N. Carson
- Pendulums in The Physics Education Literature: A Bibliography / Colin Gauld.