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Introducing the Concept of Energy: Educational and Conceptual Considerations Based on the History of Physics
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Bussotti, Paolo – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2023
In this research, an educational approach to the concept of energy is proposed. It is based on the history of physics. In 1854 Hermann Hemlholtz gave a popular lecture on the recent discovery that energy is conserved. Such lecture is used as a guide to introduce the pupils within several nuances of this concept. Not much mathematics is used, so…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Energy, Science History, Physics