Thinking in Physics The pleasure of reasoning and understanding
Read this book if you want to know how to give students the intellectual pleasure of understanding physics. Read it even if you fear that this goal is out of reach – you may be surprised! Laurence Viennot shows ways to deal with the awkward fact that comm
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Grenoble Sciences The aim of Grenoble Sciences is twofold: - to produce works corresponding to a clearly defined project, without the constraints of trends nor curriculum, - to ensure the utmost scientific and pedagogic quality of the selected works: each project is selected by Orenoble Sciences with the help of anonymous referees. In order to optimize the work, the authors interact for a year (on average) with the members of a reading committee, whose names figure in the front pages of the work, which is then co-published with the most suitable publishing partoer. Contact: Te!.: (33) 4 76 51 46 95 E-mail: [email protected] Website: https:llgrenoble-sciences.ujf-grenoble.fr
Scientific Director of Grenoble Sciences Jean BORNAREL, Emeritus Professor at the Joseph Fourier University, France
Grenoble Sciences is a department of the Joseph Fourier University supported by the French Notional Ministry for IDgher Educotion and Research and the Rhone-Alpes Region. Thinking in Physics is an improved version of the origiual book En physique, pour comprendre by Laurence VIENNOT EDP Sciences, Orenoble Sciences' collection, 2011, ISBN 978-2-7598 -0656-0. The Reading Committee of the French version included the following members: - Guy AUBERT, Emeritus Professor, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble 1. Scientific adviser CEAlDSM/Irfu - Jon OGBORN, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Education, University of London - Jacques RICARIl, Emeritus Professor, Paris Diderot University, Paris 7. Member of the Academie des sciences - Madeleine VEYSSIE, Honorary Professor, Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris 6
Translation from original French version performed by Chris COLLISTER, Jonathan UPlOHN and Nicole SAUVAL 1jIpesetting: Anne-Laure PASSAVANT Figures: Simone GERLIER, Pixel project Cover illustration: Alice GIRAUD, with extracts from: slits - W. KAM!NSKI; water jets - Gorazd PLANINSIC; Doppler effect - Pbroks 13, Wikimedia; hot-air balloons - Jean-Simon ASSELIN, Flickr
Laurence Viennot
Thinking in Physics The pleasure of reasoning and understanding
Laurence Viennot Laboratoire de Didactique André Revuz PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot 75205 Paris Cedex 13
Translated from “En Physique pour Comprendre, Laurence Viennot, Collection Grenoble Sciences. Paris: EDP Sciences 2011” ISBN 978-94-017-8665-2 ISBN 978-94-017-8666-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8666-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2014932679 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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