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Thought Experiments in Teaching Free-Fall Weightlessness: A Critical Review and an Exploration of Mercury's Behavior in "Falling Elevator"
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Balukovic, Jasmina; Slisko, Josip; Cruz, Adrián Corona – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Different "thought experiments" dominate teaching approaches to weightlessness, reducing students' opportunities for active physics learning, which should include observations, descriptions, explanations and predictions of real phenomena. Besides the controversy related to conceptual definitions of weight and weightlessness, we report…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts