The Pendulum

Scientific, Historical, Philosophical and Educational Perspectives

By: Arthur Stinner (Editor), Michael Matthews (Editor), Colin F. Gauld (Editor)

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Hardcover | 13 October 2005

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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 with the science, history, methodology and pedagogy of pendulum motion. There is ample material for the richer and more cross-disciplinary treatment of the pendulum from elementary school to high school, and through to advanced university classes.

Scientists will value the studies on the physics of the pendulum; historians will appreciate the detailed treatment of Galileo, Huygens, Newton and Foucault's pendulum investigations; psychologists and educators will learn from the papers on Piaget; teachers will welcome the many contributions to pendulum pedagogy.

All readers will come away with a new awareness of the importance of the pendulum in the foundation and development of modern science; and for its centrality in so many facets of society and culture.

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The Pendulum: Its Place in Science, Culture and Pedagogy Scientific Perspectives
The Pendulum in the 21st Century-Relic or Trendsetter
The Pendulum: A Paradigm for the Linear Oscillator
Introduction to the Treatment of Non-Linear Effects Using a Gravitational Pendulum
Experimental Control of a Simple Pendulum Model
Soup-can Pendulum
What Makes the Foucault Pendulum Move Among the Stars? Historical Perspectives
Galileo and the Pendulum: Latching on to Time
The Treatment of Cycloidal Pendulum Motion in Newton's Principia
Pendulums, Pedagogy, and Matter: Lessons from the Editing of Newton's Principia
The Treatment of the Motion of a Simple Pendulum in some Early 18th Century Newtonian Textbooks
Newton's Path to Universal Gravitation: The Role of the Pendulum
Leon Foucault: His Life, Times and Achievements
Interpreting the Pendulum: From Constrained Fall to Potential Energy.-Philosophical Perspectives
Idealisation and Galileo's Pendulum Discoveries: Historical, Philosophical and Pedagogical Considerations
Pendula, Models, Constructivism and Reality
The Poet and the Pendulum
Methodology and Politics: A Proposal to Teach the Structuring Ideas of the Philosophy of Science through the Pendulum
Degree of Influence on Perception of Belief and Social Setting: Its Relevance to Understanding Pendulum Phenomena.-Educational Perspectives
Piaget and the Pendulum
What the Pendulum Can Tell Educators about Children's Scientific Reasoning
Pendulum Phenomena and the Assessment of Scientific Inquiry Capabilities
Children's Generating Hypotheses on a Pendulum Task : Roles of Abductive Reasoning Skills and Prior Knowledge
Types of Two-Dimensional Pendulums and Their Uses in Education
The Pendulum as a Vehicle for Transitioning from Classical to Quantum Physics: History, Quantum Concepts, and Educational Challenges
Analyzing Dynamic Pendulum Motion in an Interactive Online Environment Using Flash
Pendulum Activities in the Israeli Physics Curriculum: Used and Missed Opportunities
An Analysis of the Treatment of the Simple Pendulum in Greek and Cypriot Science Curricula
The Public Understanding of Pendulum Motion: From 5 to 88 Years Old
Using Excel to Simulate Pendulum Motion and Maybe Understand Calculus a Little Better
Teaching Cultural History from Primary Events
Pendulums in the Physics Education Literature: A Bibliography
Book Notes
Name Index
Subject Index
Contributors
Countries Presented: Australia, Usa, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Israel, Greece, Italy, Spain
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